Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: House Fire With Smoke And Man Observing

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

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House Fire With Smoke And Man Observing — Clip Details

A dramatic 8mm home movie from 1968 captures a house engulfed in flames in Wauconda, Illinois. Bright orange fire consumes the structure while thick black smoke billows into the sky. A man in a red cap stands near a wooden fence, observing the blaze. The scene is framed by bare trees and a rural landscape, with a blue tarp visible in the background. The footage shows the fire's progression, with intense heat and smoke dominating the frame. Shot on vintage 8mm film, this archival clip offers a raw, unfiltered look at a tragic event, preserving a moment of crisis with authentic film grain and color.

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: 124336420

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s U.S. home-movie requests needing real fire, rural emergency, or destructive incident footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage and rural setting may show late-1960s visual clues, including wooden fencing, bare trees, simple outbuildings, and handheld amateur filming.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged bystander perspective as the camera watches flames and smoke over a fence while a man stands near the burning structure.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning house or outbuilding, heavy smoke, orange flames, a wooden fence, bare trees, grass, a blue tarp or cover, and one adult observer.
Film character: The clip has a vintage 8mm look with soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the immediacy of the event.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an emergency insert, rural fire cutaway, destructive event beat, or visual transition into a story about loss, rescue, or community crisis.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for a small-town or rural property fire in Wauconda, Illinois, without identifying the cause, occupants, or official response.
Research note: People and a property fire are visible, so copyright, likeness, location, and property-context review may be needed before commercial or sensitive uses.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 Wauconda Illinois 8mm house fire, home movie fire footage, rural building burning, smoke and flames, and man watching fire.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois footage, then broader 1960s fire, rural emergency, or disaster visuals.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a rural building engulfed in flames behind a wooden fence and bare trees. — Flames spread across a rural structure as smoke rises behind the fence.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame with an adult observer near a fence as fire consumes a rural structure. — A man stands near the fence while flames and smoke overtake the building.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing intensified flames around a rural building with thick smoke overhead. — The fire grows brighter and denser around the structure as smoke fills the upper frame.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing a rural structure heavily burning with flames spreading low across the scene. — Heavy flames and smoke dominate the scene as the structure burns near the fence line.

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