Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Firefighters Trying To Put Out A Fire

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

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Firefighters Trying To Put Out A Fire — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this archival footage captures a dramatic fire engulfing a rural building in Wauconda, Illinois. Bright orange flames and thick black smoke billow from the structure under a vivid, fiery sky. A firefighter in a white helmet and dark uniform is seen actively battling the blaze, moving across the frame with urgency. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and edge damage, conveying a raw, authentic home movie feel. This intense, historic moment offers powerful visual storytelling for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 124336199

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: 1960s 8mm footage suited to documentary requests for rural fire response, emergency services, or community disaster visuals in Illinois.
Period detail: The white helmet, dark firefighting clothing, rural structure, and 8mm color stock may show late-1960s volunteer fire response details.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has an unstaged roadside perspective, with the camera staying near the action as a firefighter moves around the burning building.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a building engulfed by flames, heavy black smoke, a firefighter, a white helmet, bare tree branches, and scorched foreground debris.
Film character: The clip carries dense 8mm grain, saturated orange color shifts, soft focus, handheld framing, and edge wear that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief emergency-response insert, disaster cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence on local fire history.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a structure fire and firefighting effort in Wauconda, without confirming the building identity or cause of the blaze.
Research note: Human likeness is limited but present, and copyright, property, and local incident identification should be reviewed before sensitive or commercial use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 Wauconda fire footage, 1960s 8mm firefighter scene, rural building fire home movie, and Illinois emergency response archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader 1960s firefighting and disaster footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a firefighter near a structure engulfed by orange flames and dark smoke. — A firefighter stands at the edge of a large structure fire as smoke spreads across the frame.

A firefighter in a white helmet appears near a burning structure in 1968 Wauconda footage, with smoke filling the sky. — The firefighter moves near the structure as fire and smoke dominate the background.

In this Wauconda fire scene, flames and smoke tower behind a pale building as a firefighter remains near the foreground. — Flames rise over the roofline while the firefighter stands below the smoke plume.

A firefighter bends near the side of a burning building in 1968 Wauconda footage, with intense flames behind the structure. — The firefighter crouches near the building as the fire burns intensely behind it.

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