Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Firefighters Battle Raging Structure Fire

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

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Firefighters Battle Raging Structure Fire — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures firefighters battling a raging fire at a rural structure in Wauconda, Illinois. Thick smoke billows as flames consume the wooden frame of the building, with emergency personnel in period uniforms working desperately to contain the blaze. The footage, marked by the distinct purple and blue color cast of aged Super 8 film, shows a wooden fence in the foreground and bare trees in the background, conveying the urgency of the scene. This archival clip offers a raw, nostalgic glimpse into a community emergency from the late 1960s.

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: 124337099

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s U.S. community-emergency, rural fire response, disaster aftermath, or local-history sequences needing authentic 8mm home-movie evidence.
Period detail: The frame may show late-1960s firefighting attire, a rural fence line, bare trees, and a collapsing wood structure, consistent with the supplied 1968 Wauconda metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from behind a fence at a distance, giving the scene the unplanned urgency of a bystander recording a local emergency.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include heavy smoke, open flames, a skeletal wooden building frame, firefighters or bystanders, a fence, bare trees, and foreground yard debris.
Film character: The 8mm scan has strong purple-blue color shift, soft grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the material feel of aged home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for fire response, rural accidents, emergency services, or community crisis stories.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a small-community fire scene with responders and onlookers near a burning rural structure, without identifying the cause or outcome.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property considerations should be assessed separately before use.
Research search match: Relevant search phrases include 1968 Wauconda Illinois fire, 8mm home movie firefighters, rural structure fire, burning building footage, and 1960s emergency response.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, and then thematically with firefighting, disaster, accident, or community-response footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing smoke, flames, and a partially collapsed wooden structure behind a fence. — Smoke spreads across a burning rural structure as flames remain visible through the wooden frame.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois fire scene with visible figures near smoke, flames, a fence, and a charred wooden frame. — Figures stand near the fence line as smoke and flames continue around the damaged structure.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame with figures near a fence as smoke obscures part of a burning structure. — Heavy smoke partially hides the fire while figures move through the foreground near the fence.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois fire footage frame showing figures, dense smoke, flames, and the remains of a wooden structure. — Smoke blankets the scene as figures stand near the fence and flames burn through the structure at right.

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