Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: House Fire With Flames And Smoke In Rural Setting

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

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House Fire With Flames And Smoke In Rural Setting — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this archival footage captures a dramatic rural house fire in Wauconda, Illinois. A wooden structure burns fiercely, with bright orange flames and thick black smoke billowing into the sky. The scene unfolds outdoors on a clear day, with a wooden fence and bare trees framing the blaze. The film shows the fire spreading through a barn-like building, with intense heat and smoke obscuring parts of the structure. The footage has a grainy, authentic home movie quality, capturing a moment of emergency in a quiet, rural setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124336406

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 real 8mm rural fire, emergency aftermath, or destructive structure-fire visuals for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The scene may show late-1960s rural Illinois through the 8mm color stock, open fencing, bare trees, and a simple outbuilding or house seen during the fire.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged observer perspective, held at a distance as flames and smoke overtake the structure without visible responders or posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include orange flames, dense smoke, a burning wooden structure, a nearby house-like building, bare trees, pasture fencing, yard debris, and daylight sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, grain, color shift, exposure bloom around flame and smoke, and slight handheld framing consistent with home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, cutaway, or transition for rural fire, property loss, emergency memory, or community-disaster sequences.
Historical context: The clip visually places a structure fire in a quiet rural setting, emphasizing distance, open land, and the vulnerability of wooden buildings before any visible intervention.
Research note: No people, faces, or logos are visible, but the structure and land may require property-context review; copyright and location identification remain separate clearance questions.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 8mm Wauconda Illinois house fire, rural structure fire home movie, vintage fire footage, and 1960s Midwest emergency scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader rural fire and emergency-response footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm footage shows smoke and fire engulfing a rural wooden structure behind a fence. — Smoke and flame obscure the burning structure at the start of the clip.

In rural Wauconda, Illinois, flames spread across a wooden structure while smoke rises near trees and a fence. — Flames spread across the structure as dark smoke rises into the trees.

The 1968 8mm frame shows a rural structure fire near a small building, with smoke drifting above fencing and trees. — The fire burns across the structure while a nearby building remains visible through smoke.

Final frame shows flames and smoke behind a fence near a rural building in Wauconda, Illinois 1968 footage. — Smoke thickens around the nearby building as the fire continues behind the fence.

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