Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Two Firefighters Using Hoses To Put Out The Fire In

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

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Two Firefighters Using Hoses To Put Out The Fire In — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic rural fire at a wooden barn in Wauconda, Illinois. Thick smoke billows from the structure as two firefighters in dark uniforms and red hats use hoses to battle the flames. The scene unfolds in a grassy field bordered by a wooden fence and bare trees, with the film's characteristic grain and color shifts adding to its authentic, nostalgic feel. A person in a red hat walks near the fire, and the footage is framed by the dark edges of a window or viewfinder, enhancing its intimate, home-movie quality.

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: 124336810

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: 1960s 8mm footage useful for documentary or educational sequences about rural fires, firefighting response, and community emergency scenes in small-town Illinois.
Period detail: The scene may show late-1960s rural firefighting, with simple hose lines, dark uniforms, red helmets or caps, wood fencing, bare trees, and a burning wooden structure.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld viewpoint keeps distance from the fire while following firefighters and bystanders as smoke, flames, and water streams change across the brief scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning wooden barn-like structure, heavy smoke, hose streams, two firefighters, a grassy field, fencing, bare trees, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, color shifts, gate edges, and slight handheld instability that mark it as physical home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, emergency-response cutaway, rural memory beat, or transition into material about fire damage and local public safety.
Historical context: The clip documents a rural structure fire and firefighting activity without establishing the fire's cause, ownership, injuries, or official response details.
Research note: People and a structure are visible, so copyright, likeness, and property considerations should be reviewed separately before publication or commercial use.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1968 Wauconda Illinois barn fire, 1960s 8mm firefighting footage, rural fire home movie, and firefighters using hoses.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader rural fire, firefighting, and home-movie emergency scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing a wooden structure on fire, hose streams, smoke, fencing, and people near the scene. — Firefighters direct water toward a burning wooden structure as smoke spreads across the field.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame with firefighters in dark clothing aiming hose streams at a burning rural wooden structure. — Water streams cross the frame toward flames and smoke inside the structure.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing heavy smoke, visible flames, hose spray, firefighters, fencing, and bare trees. — Smoke thickens around the fire as firefighters continue spraying water from the field.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing the burning structure partly obscured by smoke as firefighters continue using hose lines. — The structure is engulfed in smoke and flame while hose streams continue from the right.

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