Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: House Engulfed in Flames with Firefighter

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

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House Engulfed in Flames with Firefighter — Clip Details

A dramatic 8mm home movie from 1968 captures a house engulfed in flames in Wauconda, Illinois. Thick black smoke billows into the sky as bright orange fire consumes the structure. A firefighter in a traditional helmet and coat stands in the foreground, observing the blaze. The footage, shot on vintage 8mm film, shows the intense heat and chaos of the fire with authentic grain and color saturation typical of the era.

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: 124336458

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 U.S. documentary or educational sequences needing real 8mm footage of a residential fire and firefighting response in Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The firefighter's helmet, dark coat, hose line, and saturated 8mm color may show late-1960s local fire response rather than staged emergency footage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a nearby outdoor vantage point as the fire burns, preserving the bystander immediacy of a home-movie record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning structure, heavy smoke, orange flames, a firefighter, hose spray, wet ground, trees, fencing, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has handheld 8mm texture with strong grain, warm color saturation, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an emergency insert, a period fire-response cutaway, or a brief memory beat within a local-history sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a visible house fire and firefighting presence in a suburban or small-town outdoor setting without proving cause, ownership, or outcome.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, property, and emergency-context permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 Wauconda Illinois house fire 8mm, vintage firefighter footage, 1960s home movie fire, and archival residential blaze.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader 1960s firefighting and disaster-response footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a structure engulfed in flames with dark smoke, trees, fencing, and firefighting water spray. — A structure burns intensely as smoke rises behind fencing and hose spray.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame with a firefighter in helmet and coat standing before a burning structure and heavy smoke. — A firefighter stands in the foreground as flames consume the structure behind him.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a firefighter moving across the foreground as flames and smoke fill the background. — A firefighter passes in front of the fire while water spray hits the burning area.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame of a firefighter beside hose spray as a burning structure and smoke dominate the background. — The firefighter stands near spraying water as the fire continues behind him.

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