Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: House Fire With Firefighters and Onlookers

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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 and Onlookers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic house fire in Wauconda, Illinois. Flames engulf a white building as thick black and purple smoke billows into the sky. Firefighters battle the blaze with hoses while onlookers, including a man in a light-colored shirt, watch from a distance. The footage shows the full intensity of the fire, with bright orange flames consuming the structure and a fence visible in the foreground. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to the raw, archival feel of this tragic moment.

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: 124336372

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 brief, eyewitness view of a structure fire in Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The frames show a white building, simple fencing, hose lines, and 1960s color 8mm exposure, with no visible signs or brands to date the scene beyond the supplied 1968 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records from a cautious distance like an onlooker, preserving an unstaged view of firefighters and nearby observers responding to a fire.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white building, intense orange flames, dark smoke, hose lines, a fence, bare trees, and small human figures near the scene.
Film character: The scan has soft 8mm grain, color fading, high-contrast flames, smoke haze, and contact-sheet edge shadows that reinforce its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short disaster insert, emergency-response cutaway, community memory beat, or transition into a broader fire-safety or local-history sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a local fire response as seen by a civilian camera, showing the scale of flames and smoke without confirming cause or outcome.
Research note: People are visible at a distance and the building may involve identifiable property, so likeness, privacy, property, and local incident research should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois house fire 8mm footage, vintage home movie firefighters, structure fire smoke flames, and 1960s emergency response film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, and then with related fire, emergency response, or community disaster footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing a white building beside heavy flames and smoke, with a small figure near hose lines in front. — A white building stands beside heavy flames as a figure works or watches near a hose line.

1968 Wauconda frame with bright flames and thick smoke spreading beside a white building, seen across a low fence. — Flames surge beside the white structure while heavy smoke fills the upper frame.

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing thick smoke and orange fire surrounding part of a white building behind a fence. — Smoke rolls across the scene as flames burn along the side of the building.

1968 Wauconda frame showing a white building amid flames and smoke, with two distant onlookers or responders near the fence. — Two distant figures stand near the fence as flames and smoke continue behind the building.

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