Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Man Walks Past Burning House As Firefighters Spray Water

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

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Man Walks Past Burning House As Firefighters Spray Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a man in a white shirt and dark hat walking past a house engulfed in flames in Wauconda, Illinois. Thick smoke billows into the sky as fire consumes the wooden structure, with flames visible through the windows and roof. A wooden fence frames the foreground, and a firefighter's hose sprays water in the final frames. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a raw, unfiltered look of a real emergency, evoking a sense of urgency and loss from a bygone era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124337010

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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: 1968 8mm home-movie footage for documentary or educational edits needing a small-town Illinois house fire scene with firefighters responding.
Period detail: The clip shows 1960s color 8mm texture, a wooden fence, bare trees, and a burned wood-frame structure, with period detail supported mainly by the dated home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value is the bystander viewpoint as a man passes the fire scene while the camera holds on smoke, flames, and later water spray.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning house shell, smoke, exposed framing, a man in a white shirt and dark hat, a wooden fence, debris, bare trees, and a hose spray.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, strong blue-purple color shift, soft focus, edge vignetting, and handheld exposure changes that preserve its physical-film character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert or memory beat for domestic fire, emergency response, property loss, or small-town disaster coverage.
Historical context: The scene documents a visible residential fire response in Wauconda, Illinois, without enough visual evidence to identify the address, cause, occupants, or outcome.
Research note: People and a damaged structure are visible, so copyright status should be reviewed separately from possible likeness and property-related permissions.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois house fire 8mm, vintage home movie firefighters spraying water, and burning wooden house archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Wauconda or Illinois material from 1968, then broader 1960s home-movie fire and emergency-response scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm footage, a man in a white shirt and dark hat passes a smoking, burning house behind a wooden fence. — A man walks along the foreground as flames and smoke rise from a damaged wooden house.

The Wauconda fire scene shows the man continuing past the fence while smoke and flames remain visible in the damaged house. — Smoke drifts through the scene while the man moves past the burning structure.

The 8mm frame shows the burned house shell in Wauconda with smoke in the trees and a firefighter hose spray beginning at the right edge. — Water spray reaches toward the burned structure as smoke fills the background.

A hose stream sprays across the right side of the 1968 Wauconda house fire as smoke surrounds the charred wooden structure. — A firefighter's hose sprays water toward the damaged house in the final frame.

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