Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Firefighters Spraying Water on Burning Two-Story House

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

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Firefighters Spraying Water on Burning Two-Story House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic fire at a rural structure in Wauconda, Illinois. Thick smoke billows from a two-story building as flames consume its frame, viewed through bare trees in a wooded setting. Firefighters in dark uniforms and helmets arrive, spraying water to combat the blaze. The footage shows the progression of the fire and the emergency response, with visible film grain and color shifts characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This archival clip offers a raw, nostalgic look at a real-life disaster, ideal for historical documentaries, editorial 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: 124336891

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: 1960s 8mm footage for productions needing a real rural house fire response, emergency services insert, or community disaster scene.
Period detail: The dark firefighter coats, helmets, bare trees, and color 8mm home-movie look support a late-1960s rural Illinois setting without identifying a specific property.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a nearby yard or roadside as firefighters move through smoke, giving the scene an unstaged witness perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning two-story structure, heavy smoke, orange flames, bare trees, firefighters, water spray, lawn shadows, and foreground posts.
Film character: The clip has handheld 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, color shift, and exposure changes around bright flame and smoke.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, disaster cutaway, emergency response beat, or memory fragment within a local history sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows a community fire response in a rural or wooded setting, with firefighters approaching a structure already heavily involved.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property-related uses should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1960s 8mm house fire, Wauconda Illinois fire footage, firefighters spraying water, rural structure fire, and vintage home movie disaster.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader firefighting or disaster-response clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a smoke-filled burning structure seen through bare trees. — A burning two-story structure is partly obscured by smoke and trees.

The Wauconda fire scene continues with smoke spreading across a burning frame structure in a wooded setting. — Smoke thickens around the burning structure as flames remain visible inside.

Firefighters in dark coats and helmets move across the Wauconda fire scene with flames and smoke behind them. — Firefighters pass in front of the burning structure during the response.

Firefighters continue working near the burning structure in Wauconda, Illinois, with smoke, flame, and bare trees visible. — Firefighters gather near the structure as smoke and flames continue behind them.

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