Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Large House Fire and Firefighters Battle Blaze with Hoses

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

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Large House Fire and Firefighters Battle Blaze with Hoses — Clip Details

A dramatic 8mm home movie from 1968 captures a large house engulfed in flames in Wauconda, Illinois. Bright orange fire and thick black smoke billow from the structure as firefighters battle the blaze with hoses. The footage, shot from a distance across a grassy field, shows the intense heat and chaos of the fire against a dusky sky. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to the raw, archival feel of this historic emergency scene.

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: 124336267

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 U.S. local-emergency coverage, documentary inserts about residential fires, firefighting response, or community disaster memory.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, rural roadside view, utility poles, open grassy foreground, and firefighters with hoses support a late-1960s home-movie record in Wauconda, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance across a field, giving the scene the unstaged urgency of a bystander recording a neighborhood emergency.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white house or outbuilding, roof flames, thick smoke, firefighters, water streams, utility poles, trees, grass, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has grainy 8mm color texture, soft focus, uneven exposure, handheld framing, and visible contact-sheet borders that reinforce its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief emergency insert, a local-history cutaway, or a memory beat showing fire response before modern news-video coverage.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a serious residential-area fire response, with firefighters working hoses while smoke and flames overtake the structure.
Research note: People appear as distant silhouettes, and copyright, likeness, and property-identification questions should be reviewed separately before reuse.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 Wauconda Illinois house fire, vintage 8mm firefighting footage, home movie fire response, and 1960s residential blaze.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader vintage firefighting or house-fire footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a distant structure engulfed by flames and black smoke across a grassy field. — A large fire burns through a distant structure as smoke rises over trees and utility poles.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame with firefighters silhouetted near a white building burning under thick smoke. — Firefighters gather near the burning structure as flames spread along the roofline.

Close 8mm view of a Wauconda structure fire, with bright flames and smoke moving across the roof area. — Flames roll across the roof while smoke and glare obscure parts of the building.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing firefighters using a hose against a smoky structure fire. — A hose stream arcs toward the building as firefighters work through smoke near the wall.

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