Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Building on Fire with Firefighters Using Hose

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

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Building on Fire with Firefighters Using Hose — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this archival footage captures a wooden building engulfed in flames in Wauconda, Illinois. Bright orange fire burns through the structure's walls and roof, with thick smoke rising into the night sky. A firefighter directs a powerful stream of water from a hose, attempting to extinguish the blaze. The scene is framed by a wooden fence in the foreground, with scattered debris and a mailbox visible. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain and color distortion of vintage home movies, conveying a tense, dramatic moment of emergency response.

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: 124336981

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 emergency-response footage for documentary sequences needing a brief rural or small-town building fire scene.
Period detail: The scene may show 1960s firefighting and residential outbuilding details, with a wooden fence, mailbox, and hose stream visible in Wauconda, Illinois metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged witness perspective, filmed from behind a fence as the fire and water spray continue in real time.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning wooden structure, smoke, water from a fire hose, a fence, mailbox, trees, debris, and yard ground.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows heavy grain, soft focus, blue-purple color shift, high contrast flames, and slight handheld framing typical of home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, disaster cutaway, emergency-response transition, or memory beat in a 1960s local-history sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a small-town fire response without showing identifiable people, emphasizing property damage and firefighting action rather than aftermath.
Research note: No faces, logos, or children are visible, but copyright, location, and property-context review may still be needed before commercial or editorial use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois building fire, 8mm firefighting footage, vintage home movie fire hose, and 1960s structure fire.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1968 Wauconda material, then broader small-town fire, firefighting, and emergency-response clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing a wooden structure burning behind a fence, with smoke, flames, trees, and a mailbox visible. — A wooden building burns behind a fence as smoke drifts across the yard.

1968 Wauconda frame showing flames in a wooden building as water spray reaches the fire from the right. — Water is directed toward the burning structure as flames remain visible inside the walls.

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame with water spraying across a yard toward a burning wooden structure behind a fence. — A strong stream of water crosses the frame toward the burning building.

Final 1968 Wauconda frame showing the burning structure, hose spray, smoke, fence, mailbox, and nearby yard objects. — The fire continues as water spray reaches the damaged wooden structure.

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