Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Building Engulfed by Massive Fire

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

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Building Engulfed by Massive Fire — Clip Details

A dramatic 8mm home movie from 1968 captures a massive fire engulfing a building in Wauconda, Illinois. The clip shows intense orange and yellow flames consuming the structure, with thick smoke billowing into the sky. A silhouetted figure watches the blaze from a distance, emphasizing the scale of the disaster. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color shifts, and natural imperfections, offering authentic archival footage of a historical fire event.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124336380

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 or documentary requests needing real 8mm footage of a structure fire in Wauconda, Illinois, with a bystander watching from a distance.
Period detail: The 1968 date and Wauconda location are supported by metadata, while the frames visibly show color 8mm-era home-movie handling, heavy flame, smoke, and a dark silhouetted observer.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged witness view, with the camera held at a distance as a person watches the building burn rather than performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a building engulfed in orange flames, dense smoke, falling or charred structural pieces, dark foreground edges, a silhouetted viewer, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries physical 8mm texture through pronounced grain, warm color shift, soft focus, exposure bloom from the fire, and slight handheld framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, disaster cutaway, memory beat, or transition into a story about fire, emergency response, property loss, or local history.
Historical context: The frames provide visual context for a local building fire as seen by a home-movie camera, but they do not identify the building, cause, occupants, or emergency response details.
Research note: People are visible as silhouettes, so likeness risk appears limited but should still be reviewed, and copyright, location, and property considerations remain separate clearance questions.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 Wauconda Illinois 8mm fire footage, vintage home movie building burning, 1960s structure fire, and archival footage of flames and smoke.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, and then broader themes of fires, disasters, local events, and damaged buildings.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a silhouetted viewer facing a building consumed by bright flames and smoke. — A dark figure stands before a structure burning intensely in the distance.

A Wauconda, Illinois structure fire fills the frame with orange flame and smoke as a silhouetted observer remains below. — The fire spreads across the structure while a bystander remains in silhouette.

The 8mm footage shows the building fire at peak brightness, with flames washing across the structure and a viewer partly visible below. — Bright flames overtake the structure as the observer drops low in the frame.

Final frame of the 1968 Wauconda fire clip, with a silhouetted person in the foreground and flames consuming the visible building frame. — A silhouetted viewer faces the burning structure through smoke and firelight.

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