Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Fire And Smoke Burn In An Area With Wood While Water

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

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Fire And Smoke Burn In An Area With Wood While Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic fire engulfing a wooden structure in Wauconda, Illinois. Thick black smoke billows into the sky as bright orange flames consume the building, with debris scattered in the foreground. The footage shows the destructive power of the blaze from a distance, with bare tree branches visible against the smoke-filled sky. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to the raw, archival feel of this historical disaster footage.

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: 124336394

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: Useful for 1960s U.S. archival requests needing brief home-movie footage of a structure fire, smoke, and emergency destruction for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color, bare trees, low roadside view, and metadata-supported 1968 Wauconda setting place the scene in a late-1960s Midwestern home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance without staging, preserving a witness-like neighborhood view of flames, smoke, debris, and water spray.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include orange flames, heavy gray smoke, a burning wooden structure, bare tree branches, roadside posts, scattered debris, and pale winter grass.
Film character: Soft focus, uneven exposure, color fading, dust, and the contact-sheet frame edges give the short clip a tactile 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a disaster insert, transition, memory beat, or cutaway for fire damage, local history, or emergency-response context.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a destructive outdoor fire in a small-town or suburban setting, without enough visible evidence to identify a specific incident.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status, property context, and incident identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Search phrases include 1968 Wauconda Illinois fire footage, 8mm home movie structure fire, vintage smoke and flames, and 1960s disaster footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1968 Wauconda material, then broader 1960s fire, disaster, smoke, and local-history clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing a wooden structure engulfed by flames with smoke rising behind bare branches and roadside foreground elements. — A wooden structure burns in the distance as smoke rises behind roadside posts and bare branches.

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame with heavy smoke and flames around a burning structure, seen from across a roadside area. — Flames and smoke spread across the structure while the camera remains at a distance.

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing smoke, flames, ground debris, and a low roadside view of a burning wooden structure. — Smoke thickens around the burning structure as flames remain visible near the ground.

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing a large smoke plume, visible flames, roadside posts, and a partially obscured burning structure. — A large smoke cloud obscures much of the structure while flames continue near the base.

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