Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Wooden Building Engulfed in Flames at Night

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

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Wooden Building Engulfed in Flames at Night — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this archival footage captures a wooden building fully engulfed in flames in Wauconda, Illinois. The fire rages through the structure, with bright orange and red flames visible through windows and openings, illuminating the charred wooden walls. Thick smoke billows into the night sky, casting an eerie purple glow over the scene. The camera remains steady, documenting the destruction of the building, which appears to be a rural home or shed, with a wooden fence visible in the foreground. The footage shows the building collapsing as the fire intensifies, with the surrounding trees silhouetted against the blaze. This raw, unfiltered home movie captures a dramatic and tragic moment of destruction, preserving a moment of loss and danger from the late 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124336969

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 footage for documentary or museum edits needing a brief view of a burning wooden structure in Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm color home-movie texture from 1968, with no visible signage, vehicles, clothing, or people to add more period detail.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a fixed, nearby outdoor position, giving the scene the direct witness quality of home-movie documentation rather than staged coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include charred wooden siding, flames inside openings, heavy smoke, bare trees, debris, a fence, posts, and a small metal canister in the foreground.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, purple-blue exposure shifts, soft focus, and contact-print framing that add physical-film texture to the fire scene.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, disaster cutaway, transition into aftermath, or visual memory beat about local fire damage.
Historical context: The footage documents a destructive structure fire in a rural or small-town setting, but the frames do not identify the building or cause of the blaze.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but the destroyed structure may involve property context and copyright licensing remains separate from likeness or property review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois 8mm fire footage, burning wooden building home movie, and smoke damaged rural structure archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel fire footage, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader archival clips of structure fires and aftermath.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing a close, smoke-darkened section of a burning wooden structure with orange firelight inside. — Scorched siding and smoke fill a close view of the burning structure.

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing flames inside a damaged wooden wall, with smoke staining across the structure. — Flames glow through damaged openings in the wooden wall.

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing a burning wooden building beyond a fence, with smoke, trees, debris, and a small metal canister visible. — A wider home-movie view shows the burning structure behind a foreground fence.

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing the structure still burning amid blue smoke, with charred siding, fence posts, trees, and debris. — Smoke and flames surround the damaged wooden structure near the end of the clip.

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