Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: House Fire Being Extinguished by Fire Department

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

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House Fire Being Extinguished by Fire Department — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a house engulfed in flames in Wauconda, Illinois. The wooden structure is heavily damaged, with fire consuming the upper floors and smoke billowing into the sky. A wooden fence and a mailbox are visible in the foreground, framing the scene. The footage shows the aftermath of the blaze, with the fire partially extinguished and the building reduced to charred remains. The warm glow of the fire contrasts with the cool blue tones of the surrounding environment, creating a dramatic and somber atmosphere. This archival footage offers a raw, unfiltered look at a tragic event from the late 1960s, capturing the devastation of a residential fire in a small American town.

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: 124337049

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 educational edits needing a small-town residential fire scene and firefighting aftermath in Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, simple roadside mailbox, wood fencing, and residential yard details support the stated late-1960s home-movie setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from a nearby yard or roadside position, giving the scene an unstaged witness perspective rather than an official fire-department view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a charred two-story wooden structure, smoke, active flames, water spray, a fence rail, a roadside mailbox, bare trees, and burned debris.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, strong blue-magenta color shifts, soft focus, and handheld framing that preserve the physical texture of a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, disaster aftermath cutaway, community-memory beat, or transition into a sequence about fire response or home loss.
Historical context: The footage shows a residential structure fire being fought or recently fought in a suburban or small-town setting, without identifying individuals in view.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the intended context.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois house fire, 8mm residential fire footage, vintage firefighting aftermath, and home movie fire damage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois footage, then broader house fire and emergency-response scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a charred wooden house with smoke, flames, water spray, fence rails, and a roadside mailbox. — A damaged wooden house burns as smoke and water spray cross the yard.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame of a heavily burned house shell with smoke, debris, fence rails, mailbox, and firefighting water spray. — The burned structure remains standing while smoke drifts through the scene.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing the blackened side of a burned house, smoke, remaining fire glow, fence rails, and mailbox. — A close view shows the house wall blackened by fire with smoke still hanging around it.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame of a fire-damaged house with smoke, visible flame on the right, foreground fence, mailbox, and scattered debris. — Flames remain visible beside the damaged house as smoke moves across the yard.

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