Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Firefighters Using Hose to Battle House Fire

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

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Firefighters Using Hose to Battle House Fire — Clip Details

A dramatic 8mm home movie from 1968 captures a house engulfed in flames in Wauconda, Illinois. Thick black smoke billows into the sky as intense orange fire consumes the structure. A red Wauconda Fire Dept. truck, Engine No. 13, is positioned nearby with firefighters actively battling the blaze using a massive hose. The footage, shot on vintage 8mm film, shows the urgency of the scene with the fire's glow illuminating the surrounding yard and trees. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 footage adds to the raw, archival feel of this historical emergency response.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124336169

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1960s documentary or educational edits needing real home-movie footage of a local fire department response to a structure fire in Illinois.
Period detail: The red fire truck, 8mm color stock, rural yard setting, and metadata-supported 1968 Wauconda location place the scene in a late-1960s local emergency context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a bystander distance, giving the footage the unstaged urgency of a resident or witness recording an active fire response.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning white structure, heavy black smoke, orange flames, leafless trees, a grassy yard, firefighters, a hose, and a red fire truck.
Film character: The footage has saturated fire color, dark smoke contrast, soft focus, gate edges, and handheld 8mm instability that signal original physical-film capture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief incident insert, emergency-response cutaway, or memory beat illustrating local firefighting and property loss.
Historical context: The clip shows community-scale firefighting before modern digital documentation, with responders and equipment positioned close to an active blaze.
Research note: People and fire-department markings are visible, so copyright, likeness, insignia, and property-identification questions should be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Research matches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois house fire, 8mm home movie fire department response, and vintage firefighter truck hose footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader vintage fire response and emergency footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a white structure on fire with dense smoke, orange flames, trees, and a grassy foreground. — A white structure burns behind a yard while smoke rises over nearby trees.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame with heavy smoke and flames along a white building's roofline, seen through dark 8mm frame edges. — Fire advances across the roofline as smoke fills the upper frame.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing a red fire truck, a standing person, hose equipment, flames, smoke, and the side of a burning building. — A red fire truck sits near the blaze as a figure stands in the smoky yard.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame with a red fire department truck in the foreground and a burning structure, flames, smoke, and responders nearby. — The fire department truck is parked close to the structure as flames and smoke intensify behind it.

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