Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Firefighters Trying To Put Out A Burning House

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

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Firefighters Trying To Put Out A Burning House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures firefighters battling a raging house fire in Wauconda, Illinois. Thick smoke billows from the structure as a powerful stream of water arcs across the yard, dousing the flames. The footage, marked by classic Super 8 grain and a faded purple color cast, shows the emergency response in real-time, with firefighters visible in the distance. The scene is framed by a wooden fence in the foreground, adding to the authentic, archival feel of this historic moment.

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: 124336924

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 Illinois home-movie footage for productions needing a brief archival view of firefighters responding to a residential structure fire.
Period detail: The 1968 8mm footage may show mid-century suburban firefighting from a yard-side vantage, with a wooden fence, hose stream, smoke, and distant responders visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a resident or bystander filming an emergency from behind a fence rather than an official news or fire-department camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning house, heavy smoke, arcing water stream, wooden fence, yard, leafless trees, hose hardware, and distant firefighters or onlookers.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, handheld framing, gate edges, dust specks, faded color, and a purple cast from aged film stock.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, emergency-response cutaway, local-history beat, or visual transition into a fire, public-safety, or memory sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a neighborhood fire response in Wauconda, Illinois, without enough visible detail to identify the property, people, or fire cause from frames alone.
Research note: People appear only at a distance, but likeness, property, and incident-identification issues should be reviewed separately from any copyright licensing status.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois house fire, vintage 8mm firefighters, home movie burning house, and 1960s residential fire response.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader firefighting, house fire, and emergency-response footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing smoke, water spray, a wooden fence, and a burning house partly obscured in the background. — Water is directed toward a smoke-filled burning house behind a yard fence.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame with a strong water stream crossing smoke toward a house fire, with distant figures near the scene. — A hose stream cuts across smoke as responders work near the burning structure.

Faded 8mm view from Wauconda, Illinois in 1968, showing smoke, water spray, a wooden fence, and a partially visible burning house. — Smoke and spray fill the frame during the firefighting effort.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois home-movie frame showing a hose stream aimed at a smoke-covered house fire, with fence sections and a pipe in the foreground. — Water is sprayed into the smoke around the burning house, seen from behind yard structures.

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