Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Firefighters Battle Blaze at Rural House

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationWauconda, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 Wauconda Illinois

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Firefighters Battle Blaze at Rural House — Clip Details

A dramatic 8mm home movie from 1968 captures firefighters battling a raging blaze at a rural house in Wauconda, Illinois. Flames erupt from the roof and windows of a white building as thick black smoke billows into the sky. Firefighters in vintage uniforms and helmets work frantically with hoses and a ladder, attempting to contain the fire. The scene unfolds in a wooded, rural setting with a wooden fence in the foreground, all captured with the authentic grain and color shifts of vintage Super 8 film.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124336149

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1137 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: barn building darrell rd
Reel-level year note: 1968
Reel-level location note: illinois
Date: 1968 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Wauconda, Illinois, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1960s 8mm footage of rural emergency response, firefighters, or a house fire for documentary, museum, education, or broadcast context.
Period detail: The clip shows 1968 home-movie color, older firefighter helmets and coats, hose work, a ladder, and a rural wooded setting in Wauconda, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a bystander distance as firefighters work around the burning building, giving the scene an unstaged local witness perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white rural building, roof flames, dense smoke, firefighters, hoses, a ladder, bare trees, grass, and a low wooden fence.
Film character: The 8mm image has heavy grain, blue-purple color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that clearly reads as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief insert, cutaway, or transition for emergency response, rural community memory, fire damage, or vintage disaster footage.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a local fire response in a rural Illinois setting without proving the cause of the blaze or identifying the property owner.
Research note: People and a building are visible, so copyright, likeness, and possible property or location identification should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Search matches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois 8mm house fire, rural firefighters home movie, vintage fire brigade footage, and 1960s emergency response film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel fire or Wauconda material, then other 1968 Illinois footage, then broader rural firefighting or vintage emergency-response clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing firefighters near a white rural building as flames and dark smoke rise from the roofline. — Firefighters work hoses beside a burning white building as smoke fills the wooded scene.

Firefighters in older gear work from the yard near a burning white structure in Wauconda, Illinois, with smoke drifting through bare trees. — Firefighters gather near the wall while flames flare at the roof edge.

A 1968 home-movie frame shows firefighters, hoses, and a ladder beside a white rural building as fire burns near the roof. — A ladder and hose team appear beside the burning structure in the rural yard.

Wide 8mm view of the Wauconda house fire, with dark smoke, orange flames, a white building, trees, and a small figure in the foreground. — A wider angle shows the fire spreading smoke over the rural yard and trees.

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