Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: White House On Fire With Thick Black Smoke

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

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

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

White House On Fire With Thick Black Smoke — Clip Details

A dramatic 8mm home movie from 1968 captures a white house engulfed in flames and thick black smoke in Wauconda, Illinois. Bright orange fire erupts from the roof and windows, illuminating the night sky as dark smoke billows into the air. The scene is viewed from a grassy yard, with a utility pole visible in the foreground and trees in the background. The footage, shot on vintage 8mm film, shows the intensity of the blaze and the urgency of the situation, offering a raw, archival glimpse of a rural fire emergency.

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: 124336163

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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.

View source reel context Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s editorial or documentary requests needing real 8mm footage of a residential structure fire in Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The 1968 home-movie date and 8mm source are supported by metadata, while the visible scene shows a rural or suburban yard, utility pole, bare trees, and a white house burning.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged bystander perspective, filmed from a grassy distance as flames and smoke overtake the house.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white house, roofline flames, dense black smoke, grassy foreground, utility pole, overhead wire, bare trees, and a light vehicle or trailer at frame edge.
Film character: The footage has strong 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the immediacy of a home-movie record.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short insert, emergency cutaway, transition into fire aftermath, or memory beat within a community-history sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a residential fire as seen from outside, without visible emergency vehicles or identifiable people in these selected frames.
Research note: Copyright and licensing should be checked separately from location and property concerns, since the exterior of a burning house is visible but no faces or brands are apparent.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 Wauconda Illinois house fire 8mm footage, vintage home movie fire smoke, and 1960s residential fire archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader vintage fire, smoke, and emergency-response scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a white house on fire, with flames along the roof and dark smoke rising behind a utility pole. — Flames break through the roof of a white house as black smoke rises over the yard.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame of a white house engulfed at the roofline, with heavy smoke, bare trees, and a light vehicle or trailer at right. — Heavy smoke spreads over the burning house as flames remain visible along the roof.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing a dense smoke plume above a white house, with orange fire visible near the roof edge. — A dark smoke plume thickens over the house while fire remains visible along the roofline.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame of flames and black smoke coming from a white house, seen from across a grassy yard with trees nearby. — The burning house remains visible through smoke, framed by the yard and trees.

Visually Similar Clips