Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: House Engulfed in Flames with Firefighter

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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 with Firefighter — Clip Details

A dramatic 8mm home movie from 1968 captures a house engulfed in flames in Wauconda, Illinois. The structure is heavily damaged, with fire consuming the interior and smoke billowing into the sky. A firefighter appears in the final frames, battling the blaze with a hose. The footage, shot through a window frame, shows the charred remains of a wooden building with a fence in the foreground. The color palette is dominated by intense oranges and yellows of the fire against a purple-tinged sky, with visible film grain and slight color distortion typical of vintage Super 8 footage.

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: 124337073

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: Useful for 1960s documentary or educational edits needing real 8mm home-movie footage of a residential fire response in Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The frame may show late-1960s home-movie color stock, a simple fence, yard debris, and a wooden structure burning in a small-town residential setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches from behind a dark window or doorway edge, giving the fire an unstaged eyewitness perspective rather than a formal news view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning wooden structure, smoke, orange flames, charred framing, a fence, yard grass, bare trees, and a firefighter with a hose near the end.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, purple color shift, flicker, and uneven exposure that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, emergency cutaway, aftermath-to-action beat, or memory fragment within a sequence about fire, loss, or local events.
Historical context: The footage documents a destructive structure fire as seen by a home-movie camera, with no visible signage or details confirming cause or ownership.
Research note: Review for copyright, responder likeness, location identification, and property-related permissions; no brands are visible and clearance is not guaranteed.
Research search match: Search matches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois house fire, 8mm home movie burning building, vintage residential fire footage, and firefighter hose scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Wauconda or Illinois 1968 material, then broader 1960s fire, emergency response, or home-movie disaster footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a fire-damaged wooden structure burning behind a low fence and dark foreground frame. — A charred wooden building burns behind a fence as smoke fills the yard.

Wauconda, Illinois 1968 home-movie frame of flames inside a heavily damaged wooden structure with smoke and a fence in the foreground. — Flames spread through the damaged structure while smoke drifts across the yard.

Vintage 8mm frame from Wauconda, Illinois showing a charred structure with active flames, smoke, fence posts, and trees nearby. — The fire continues inside the skeletal remains of the wooden building.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame showing a firefighter near a burning wooden structure as smoke and flames fill the background. — A firefighter appears near the burning structure as flames continue at the side of the building.

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