Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Firefighter Battling House Fire with Water

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

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Firefighter Battling House Fire with Water — Clip Details

A dramatic 8mm home movie from 1968 captures a firefighter battling a raging house fire in Wauconda, Illinois. Bright orange and red flames engulf the structure, billowing thick black and grey smoke into the sky. The firefighter, seen in silhouette, directs a powerful stream of water at the blaze. The footage, shot on vintage 8mm film, shows natural film grain, slight color shifts, and a handheld perspective, conveying the urgency and chaos of the scene. This authentic archival clip offers a visceral look at a real emergency from the late 1960s.

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: 124336242

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: Supports 1960s documentary or educational requests needing real 8mm footage of a residential structure fire and firefighter response in Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The clip shows a rural or small-town fire scene with simple utility poles, leafless trees, and a light-colored building, consistent with the supplied 1968 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld viewpoint records an emergency from a bystander distance, preserving the unstable, observational quality of an unstaged home movie.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning building, large orange flames, dark smoke, a firefighter silhouette, water spray, utility poles, trees, and open ground.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries heavy grain, color shifts, gate edges, soft focus, and exposure blooms around the flames as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as an urgent disaster insert, a community emergency cutaway, or a short visual beat for fire response in a 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for small-town emergency response and residential fire damage without identifying a specific incident beyond the supplied Wauconda metadata.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, and copyright, likeness, and property considerations should be reviewed separately before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1968 Wauconda Illinois house fire, 8mm firefighter footage, 1960s home movie fire scene, or burning building smoke footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois footage, and then with broader firefighter or house fire scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a light-colored building consumed by bright flames, heavy smoke, and a distant firefighter silhouette. — A firefighter stands near a building overtaken by flames and smoke.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame with a firefighter near a burning structure, intense orange flames, black smoke, and visible 8mm film edges. — Flames and smoke dominate the frame as a firefighter works near the building.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a house or outbuilding on fire behind a utility pole, with dark smoke and bright roofline flames. — A utility pole frames the burning structure as smoke rises above the roof.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing a light-colored structure burning intensely, with smoke overhead and a distant person in the foreground. — A distant figure stands before a burning building as flames break through the roof.

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