Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: House Engulfed in Flames as Firefighter Sprays Water

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

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House Engulfed in Flames as Firefighter Sprays Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this archival footage captures a house engulfed in flames in Wauconda, Illinois. The wooden structure is heavily damaged, with fire consuming the upper floors and thick smoke billowing into the sky. A firefighter sprays water from a hose, attempting to control the blaze. The scene is viewed through a dark frame, likely from a window, with a wooden fence and scattered debris in the foreground. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts typical of vintage home movies, conveying a raw, urgent moment of destruction and 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: 124337063

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 fire-response footage for documentary sequences on domestic emergencies, small-town disaster scenes, or archival visual evidence of structural loss.
Period detail: The 1968 home-movie source and visible wooden fencing, bare trees, and modest residential structure place the scene in a late-1960s suburban or small-town Illinois setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from behind a dark foreground edge, giving the fire an unstaged witness perspective rather than a formal news or fire-department record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burned house wall, active flames, smoke or steam, sprayed water, a wooden fence, bare trees, grass, and scattered debris.
Film character: The 8mm image has saturated color shifts, soft focus, gate edges, and grain that preserve the urgent texture of a physical home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, cutaway, or memory beat to signal residential fire damage, emergency response, or sudden local catastrophe.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a residential structure fire in Wauconda, Illinois, without identifying the cause, occupants, firefighters, or broader incident history.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are evident, but copyright, location verification, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1968 8mm house fire, Wauconda Illinois fire footage, vintage home movie burning house, and firefighter water spray.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Wauconda 1968 material, then broader 1960s fire, disaster, and emergency-response footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing a charred house exterior with smoke, water spray, fence, grass, and leafless trees. — A damaged house exterior smokes as water is sprayed across the burned structure.

1968 Wauconda frame with flames visible in a burned house wall, smoke or steam, bare trees, fence, and scattered debris. — Flames show through the charred wall as water spray reaches the burning structure.

1968 Wauconda home-movie frame showing flames spreading across a charred house exterior behind a low fence. — Fire burns across the damaged house wall with smoke and debris around the structure.

1968 Wauconda 8mm frame showing a heavily burned house wall with smoke, water spray, fence, grass, and bare trees. — Water spray and smoke surround the burned remains of a house exterior.

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