Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Multiple Structures Engulfed in Flames

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

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Multiple Structures Engulfed in Flames — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this archival footage captures a devastating fire engulfing multiple structures in Wauconda, Illinois. Bright orange flames and thick billowing smoke rise against a hazy sky, consuming wooden buildings and debris. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 home movie adds to the raw, nostalgic intensity of the scene. Viewed through a darkened frame, the footage conveys a sense of urgency and loss, offering a poignant glimpse into a past community event. This historic clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, and nostalgic storytelling.

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: 124336387

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: Supports 1960s documentary or educational requests for brief 8mm views of a structure fire in Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1960s rural or small-town structures and yard debris, with era context supported by the 1968 8mm metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera records the fire from a distant, unstaged home-movie viewpoint, emphasizing eyewitness observation rather than news coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include orange flames, heavy smoke, charred building frames, pale sky, yard debris, fencing, and dark film borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has strong grain, soft focus, color fading, blown highlights, and abrupt exposure shifts that mark it as scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short insert, disaster cutaway, memory beat, or transition into a sequence about community loss or fire response.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a destructive outdoor fire scene without showing identifiable people, responders, vehicles, or confirmed cause.
Research note: No faces, children, or brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and property-related context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois fire, 8mm structure fire footage, burning buildings home movie, and vintage smoke flames.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel material, then Wauconda or Illinois footage from 1968, then broader 1960s fire and disaster imagery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 8mm footage from Wauconda, Illinois shows bright flames near a dark structure, framed by heavy black film edges. — Flames rise beside a dark structure at the start of the fire sequence.

Wauconda, Illinois fire footage shows a skeletal structure burning through pale smoke, with debris and fencing in the foreground. — A structure frame burns through heavy smoke with debris in the yard.

The 1968 Wauconda 8mm clip shows smoke and flames around a damaged wooden structure, with scattered objects in front. — Smoke and fire surround a damaged structure as debris lies in the foreground.

In the final frame, smoke fills the Wauconda fire scene while a charred structure and yard debris remain visible through the haze. — Smoke thickens around the charred structure near the end of the clip.

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