Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: A Group Of Firefighters Gather Around A Burning Building

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

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A Group Of Firefighters Gather Around A Burning Building — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic fire scene in Wauconda, Illinois. A group of firefighters in period helmets and uniforms stand near a wooden fence, observing a large structure engulfed in flames and thick smoke. The footage shows the charred wreckage of a building, with bright orange fire contrasting against a hazy, purple-tinged sky. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to the authentic, nostalgic feel of this archival emergency 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: 124337108

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: 1960s 8mm emergency-response footage for documentaries, museum programs, or educational edits needing a small-town fire scene in Wauconda, Illinois.
Period detail: The firefighters' helmets, long coats, rural fence line, and home-movie color stock support a late-1960s community emergency scene, as dated by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from behind a fence at a distance, giving the scene the unstaged feel of a bystander recording firefighters and smoke rather than a formal news crew.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include firefighters, a wooden fence, heavy smoke, orange flames, charred structural debris, bare trees, grass, and scattered objects near the foreground.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, purple-blue color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or memory beat for fire response, local disaster, volunteer firefighting, or domestic archive sequences.
Historical context: The footage shows firefighters managing a burning structure in a small-town setting, but the frames do not identify the building, cause of fire, or specific incident.
Research note: People are visible and may be identifiable only in limited detail, so likeness, incident, and property context should be reviewed separately from footage copyright.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1960s 8mm firefighters, Wauconda Illinois fire, burning building home movie, vintage firefighting footage, and rural structure fire archive.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Wauconda or 1968 Illinois material, then broader 1960s fire, smoke, and emergency-response scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing firefighters near a wooden fence while a structure burns behind thick smoke. — Firefighters watch a burning structure through heavy smoke from behind a wooden fence.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame with firefighters beside a smoky structure fire and visible flames at the right edge. — Firefighters remain near the smoky wreckage as flames burn along one side of the structure.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing helmeted firefighters by a fence as dense smoke covers the burning structure. — Dense smoke drifts across the scene while firefighters stand at the fence line.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame with firefighters moving near a fence, smoke, burned debris, and flames at the right side. — Firefighters move along the fence line beside smoke, debris, and remaining flames.

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