Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Firefighters Battling A Small Abandoned House Fire

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

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Firefighters Battling A Small Abandoned House Fire — Clip Details

Firefighters battle a raging house fire in this 8mm home movie from Wauconda, Illinois, 1968. Thick black smoke billows into the sky as flames engulf the structure, casting an intense orange and purple glow over the scene. Several firefighters in dark uniforms are seen actively spraying water from hoses, their efforts illuminated by the fire's heat. The footage, shot on vintage 8mm film, shows visible grain, scratches, and a distinct color palette characteristic of the era, capturing a dramatic and urgent moment of emergency response in a rural setting.

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: 124336368

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 footage for documentary or educational edits needing a rural Illinois firefighting response and structure-fire scene.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1960s emergency work through dark firefighting coats, simple hose lines, overhead utility wires, and a small wood-frame structure.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a nearby outdoor position as firefighters work around the burning building without staged action or formal news coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a small white house, heavy smoke, orange flames, firefighters with hoses, bare trees, fencing, open ground, and overhead wires.
Film character: The 8mm scan has pronounced grain, soft focus, color shift, scratches, and uneven exposure that give the emergency scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief insert, transition, or atmospheric cutaway for fire response, rural hazard, emergency labor, or community memory sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a local firefighting effort around a burning abandoned house, with the camera positioned at a distance from active flames and smoke.
Research note: People and a structure are visible, so likeness and property-context review may be needed even when no logos or music are apparent.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois house fire, 8mm firefighters with hose, rural structure fire home movie, and vintage emergency response footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader 1960s firefighting or structure-fire scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing firefighters near a small white house surrounded by heavy smoke and orange flames. — Firefighters work near the side of a small house as the fire burns behind and above the structure.

A small white structure in Wauconda, Illinois is partly obscured by smoke as firefighters stand near active flames in this 1968 8mm footage. — The burning structure is partly hidden by smoke while firefighters remain close to the right side of the building.

Firefighters in dark coats work with a hose near a smoke-covered house fire in 1968 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie footage. — Smoke rolls across the small house as firefighters continue working hose lines near the fence line.

The final 1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame shows firefighters near a fence while flames and smoke rise behind a small white house. — Firefighters remain near the foreground fence while the rear of the structure burns intensely.

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