Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Firefighters Battling Large Blaze in Field

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

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Firefighters Battling Large Blaze in Field — Clip Details

Firefighters battle a large blaze in a rural field in Wauconda, Illinois, 1968. Shot on 8mm film, the footage shows emergency crews using hoses to combat flames engulfing structures, with thick smoke rising against a twilight sky. The scene is framed through a window or doorway, with a barbed wire fence in the foreground and trees silhouetted against the fire's glow. The film exhibits natural grain, color shifts, and scratches typical of vintage home movie footage, capturing a tense moment of community crisis.

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: 124336219

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 emergency-response footage for documentary or museum edits needing a rural Illinois field fire and firefighters at work.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1960s rural fire response, with hose teams, open ground, utility poles, fencing, and bare trees visible in the Wauconda, Illinois footage.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an observer's home-movie viewpoint, filmed from behind a window or doorway as firefighters work at a distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flames, heavy smoke, firefighters, water streams, trees, utility poles, barbed wire fencing, and a bright sun seen through branches.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, blue-purple color shift, grain, scratches, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, emergency cutaway, local-history transition, or memory beat around community crisis and fire response.
Historical context: The scene documents a rural fire response as seen from a nearby vantage point, without enough visual evidence to identify the specific property or cause.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property questions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois fire, 1960s 8mm firefighters, rural field blaze home movie, and vintage emergency response footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois clips, then broader 1960s fire, emergency, and rural community footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing firefighters aiming hoses at flames and smoke in a rural field. — Firefighters work from the left side of the frame as flames and smoke rise beyond fencing and trees.

Firefighters and hose lines are visible near a rural field fire in Wauconda, Illinois, with smoke rising behind trees. — Emergency crews gather near hose lines as the fire burns across the background.

A brief 8mm cutaway shows the sun shining through a tree near the Wauconda fire scene, with visible film wear. — The camera turns upward to a tree with the sun glowing through its branches.

Vintage 8mm view of a tree and sun near the Wauconda, Illinois fire footage, softened by grain and color shift. — A bright sun is partly obscured by the tree canopy in a quiet cutaway from the fire scene.

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