Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: House Fire Consuming Structure

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

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House Fire Consuming Structure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this archival footage captures a house engulfed in flames, with intense orange and red fire consuming the structure and thick smoke billowing into the night. The charred wooden walls and collapsing framework show the fire's destructive progression. The scene, filmed from a close distance, conveys urgency and danger, with the flickering light casting dramatic shadows. This raw, unedited home movie offers a visceral look at a residential fire, preserving a moment of crisis from the late 1960s.

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: 124336959

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 home-movie footage for documentary or museum sequences needing a brief residential fire scene in Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The frames show 1968 color 8mm texture and a wood-sided structure, with few date-specific clues beyond the supplied year and location metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The close, unpolished framing suggests a bystander filming an unfolding emergency rather than a staged or official fire record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include orange flames, heavy smoke, charred siding, window openings, collapsed roof material, and dark vertical frame edges.
Film character: The clip has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that add physical-film immediacy.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, emergency cutaway, memory beat, or transition into a story about fire, loss, or local crisis.
Historical context: The footage preserves a late-1960s small-town residential fire as seen from close range, without showing firefighters, residents, or identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 Wauconda house fire, 1960s 8mm residential fire, home movie burning structure, and vintage fire footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Wauconda or Illinois 1968 material, then broader 1960s home-movie fire or disaster footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing flames inside a damaged wood structure with smoke and dark film edges. — Flames and smoke fill openings in a damaged wooden structure.

Wauconda house fire frame with bright flames, smoke, and a partially collapsed section of the structure. — Fire glows behind a collapsing section of the structure.

Soft, smoky 8mm view of the house fire with flames visible through openings in the damaged wall. — Smoke softens the view of flames inside the damaged wall.

Late-clip frame from the Wauconda fire showing smoke, glowing flames, wood siding, and debris near the structure. — Smoke rises as fire continues behind the damaged wooden wall.

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