Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Small Handful Of Firemen Battle Roaring Fire

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

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Small Handful Of Firemen Battle Roaring Fire — Clip Details

A dramatic 8mm home movie from 1968 captures a rural farmhouse engulfed in a roaring fire in Wauconda, Illinois. Thick black smoke billows into the twilight sky as intense orange flames consume the white building. A small group of firefighters battles the blaze, their silhouettes visible against the inferno as they direct streams of water. The scene is framed by a grassy field, trees, and a utility pole, with the film's characteristic grain and color saturation evoking a powerful sense of historical urgency and danger.

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: 124336250

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: Useful for 1960s editorial requests needing real 8mm footage of a rural structure fire and small-town emergency response in Illinois.
Period detail: The 1968 metadata and visible 8mm color stock may show a rural Midwestern setting with a white farmhouse, utility pole, open grass, and leafless trees.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a distance like an onlooker, preserving an unstaged view of firefighters and bystanders dwarfed by smoke and flame.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white building on fire, high orange flames, dense black smoke, firefighters or bystanders, water spray, grass, trees, and a utility pole.
Film character: The clip has saturated 8mm color, heavy grain, soft focus, dark frame edges, and handheld exposure shifts that give the emergency scene physical archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, disaster cutaway, emergency-response beat, or transition into rural fire-safety or community-history material.
Historical context: The footage visually places a serious structure fire in a rural landscape, with limited visible personnel and equipment suggesting a small local response.
Research note: People and a burning building are visible, so likeness and property-context review may be needed even where copyright licensing is separately addressed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1968 8mm Wauconda Illinois farmhouse fire, rural structure fire home movie, small-town firefighters, and vintage emergency footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader rural fire and emergency-response clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a white rural building engulfed by flames as heavy smoke rises near trees and a utility pole. — A white building burns intensely as smoke rises above the rural scene.

Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing flames consuming the roof area of a white rural building with dark smoke above. — Flames and smoke dominate the view of the burning white building.

1968 Wauconda footage shows a rural building fire with a small human figure silhouetted near the structure and smoke filling the sky. — A small figure stands near the burning structure as flames continue through the building.

Wauconda, Illinois 1968 frame with silhouetted people and water spray at left while a white rural building burns under heavy smoke. — Silhouetted people and water spray appear at the edge of the burning structure.

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