Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: House Fire with Firefighters Fighting

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

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House Fire with Firefighters Fighting — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this archival footage captures a dramatic house fire in Wauconda, Illinois. A white building is engulfed in intense flames and thick black smoke as firefighters in dark uniforms spray water from hoses. Onlookers stand behind a wooden fence, watching the blaze. The scene is bathed in the orange glow of fire against a dark sky, with visible film grain and scratches characteristic of vintage home movie footage. The camera remains steady, documenting the emergency as it unfolds.

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: 124336327

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s U.S. home-movie footage for documentary or education projects needing a brief visual record of a building fire response in Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1960s small-town emergency response, with firefighters using hoses near a wood fence and a plain white building.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a bystander distance, preserving the unstaged tension of onlookers and firefighters watching the fire unfold.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white building, heavy flames, dark smoke, water spray, firefighters, onlookers, a wood fence, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, soft focus, color shift, scratches, and contact-sheet framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short emergency insert, disaster cutaway, local-history beat, or transition into a fire-response sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for a community fire scene, showing firefighters and nearby observers without identifying individuals or a cause.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, and building/property status is not verified; copyright, likeness, and property questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois building fire, 8mm house fire footage, vintage firefighters with hoses, and 1960s home movie fire scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois footage, then broader vintage fire, emergency response, or small-town disaster material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois fire scene with a white building engulfed in flames as firefighters and bystanders stand near a fence. — Firefighters and onlookers stand near a white building as flames and smoke rise above it.

Flames and smoke dominate the frame as the Wauconda building fire continues behind foreground film borders. — A wall of smoke and flame partially obscures the burning building.

Firefighters in dark gear direct hoses toward a burning white building in this 1968 Wauconda home-movie frame. — Firefighters aim hoses at the blaze as smoke spreads across the scene.

A distant view of the Wauconda fire shows two figures near a fence while smoke, flames, and water spray fill the frame. — Two distant figures watch or work near the fence as the fire burns through dense smoke.

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