Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Rural Fire Engulfs Building On A Windy Day

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

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Rural Fire Engulfs Building On A Windy Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic rural fire in Wauconda, Illinois. Flames engulf a wooden structure and debris pile, sending thick smoke into a cloudy sky. A person in dark clothing stands in the foreground, observing the blaze from behind a wooden fence. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a handheld perspective, conveying the urgency and chaos of the moment. This archival clip offers authentic 1960s Americana footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 124336577

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 requests for late-1960s Midwestern home-movie footage showing a rural structure fire for documentary, educational, or historical edit use.
Period detail: The footage may show 1960s rural Illinois details in the wooden fence, open yard, outbuilding construction, and handheld 8mm color filming style.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as a bystander watches the fire from behind a fence while the camera records the scene at ground level.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning wooden building, flames, heavy smoke, scattered debris, a fence, bare trees, open grass, and a dark-clothed observer.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm color grain, soft focus, slight fading, gate edges, and handheld framing that give the fire scene physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, disaster cutaway, rural memory beat, or transition into a story about fire, weather, or local emergency response.
Historical context: The scene places a destructive fire in a rural yard setting, with a civilian observer and no clearly visible firefighting equipment in the sampled frames.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed, and copyright, location, and property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois fire footage, 8mm rural building fire, vintage home movie structure fire, and 1960s Midwest burning building.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader rural fire or disaster-response scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing flames, smoke, debris, trees, and a fence around a burning rural structure. — A wooden outbuilding and debris burn heavily behind a fence as smoke fills the yard.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame with fire along a wooden building wall, burning debris, smoke, trees, and yard fencing. — Flames spread along the side of a rural building while debris burns nearby.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a dark-clothed observer near a fence as a rural building and debris burn. — A bystander watches from behind the fence as the fire intensifies around the structure.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing a bystander facing a structure fire with heavy smoke, flames, fencing, and scattered yard items. — The final sampled frame shows a lone observer facing the smoke and flames from the fenced yard.

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