Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Firefighter Battling House Fire

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

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Firefighter Battling House Fire — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this archival footage captures a house engulfed in flames in Wauconda, Illinois. Bright orange fire consumes the wooden structure while thick smoke billows into the sky. A firefighter in dark gear battles the blaze with a hose, spraying water at the inferno. The scene is framed by a wooden fence in the foreground, with bare trees visible in the background. The footage exhibits the characteristic grain and color shift of vintage home movies, offering a raw, unfiltered look at a dramatic emergency.

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: 124337093

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: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a brief visual record of a residential fire response in small-town Illinois.
Period detail: The scene may show late-1960s rural or suburban firefighting context, with a wood structure, yard, fence, bare trees, and hose work visible.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a nearby yard or property edge, giving the fire response an unstaged witness perspective rather than a formal news view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning wood-frame structure, orange flames, heavy smoke, a firefighter or adult with a hose, yard grass, fence rails, bare trees, and a metal post.
Film character: The 8mm image has heavy grain, soft focus, purple-blue color shift, fluctuating exposure, and handheld framing consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, emergency cutaway, memory beat, or transition into material about local fire damage or community response.
Historical context: The footage visually places a residential fire within a modest outdoor setting, with emergency response shown at close distance and no visible crowd control.
Research note: People are visible and the structure may imply property or location concerns, so likeness, property, and context review should be handled separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois house fire, 8mm home movie firefighting, vintage residential fire footage, and 1960s fire response.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1968 Wauconda or Illinois footage, then broader 1960s home-movie fire, emergency, and community-response scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a house or wood structure burning behind a fence as a person stands near smoke and flames. — A burning structure is seen through a yard fence as smoke spreads across the scene.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing an adult with a hose approaching a burning wooden structure amid smoke. — An adult with a hose moves near the burning structure as flames intensify.

Smoke obscures the 1968 Wauconda fire scene, with the burning structure, fence, grass, and metal post still partly visible. — Heavy smoke partially hides the burning structure and foreground fence.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing flames along a damaged wooden structure, with smoke drifting across a fenced yard. — Flames burn along the damaged structure while smoke moves through the yard.

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