Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: House Engulfed in Flames

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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 — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic fire engulfing a rural wooden structure in Wauconda, Illinois. Bright orange flames consume the building and surrounding debris, sending thick plumes of dark smoke into the sky. The scene is viewed through a natural frame, possibly a doorway, with a wooden fence in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, conveying a raw, unfiltered moment of destruction. A person briefly appears in the lower left, observing the blaze. This archival clip offers a powerful glimpse into a historical event, perfect for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.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: 124336566

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing 1960s 8mm home-movie footage of a rural structure fire or controlled burn in Wauconda, Illinois for documentary, education, or editorial context.
Period detail: The frames show a wooden outbuilding, split-rail fencing, yard debris, and soft 8mm color that may reflect a late-1960s rural or small-town setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged observer perspective, filmed from a shaded opening or doorway as a person briefly watches the burning structure from the lower foreground.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include orange flames, heavy smoke, a wooden structure, burning debris, a fence, yard objects, bare branches, and a briefly seen observer.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, handheld framing, and high-contrast flames against smoky blue shadows.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an insert, transition, or memory beat for fire response, demolition, rural change, loss, or archival disaster imagery.
Historical context: The scene documents a structure burning in a rural yard setting, but the frames do not establish whether it is accidental, controlled, or part of an organized event.
Research note: People are visible and the building may require context review, so copyright licensing should be considered separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 8mm Wauconda Illinois fire footage, rural house burning home movie, vintage structure fire, and 1960s burning building film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then with rural fire, demolition, or home-movie disaster themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing flames consuming debris beside a wooden structure as smoke rises behind a foreground fence. — Flames spread across debris and a wooden structure in a smoky rural yard.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame with a wooden building burning at right and flames moving through debris behind a fence. — A wooden building burns at the edge of a yard as smoke drifts over the fire.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame with a person watching from the foreground as flames burn debris and a wooden structure beyond a fence. — A foreground observer watches flames rise around the wooden structure and debris.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing heavy flames and smoke across debris, with a wooden building edge and fence in view. — Smoke thickens as flames burn through debris beside the wooden building.

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