Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Firefighter at Burning House with Fire Truck

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

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Firefighter at Burning House with Fire Truck — Clip Details

A firefighter in a dark uniform and helmet stands near a red fire truck, observing a burning structure with visible flames and debris. The scene, shot on 8mm film in 1968, captures the aftermath of a fire with a damaged wooden building and scattered wreckage. The footage transitions to a dilapidated shed in a rural setting, surrounded by trees and debris, with a person walking in the distance. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural light, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This vintage home movie footage is ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124337304

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 1968 Wauconda home-movie footage for productions needing small-town fire response, rural damage, or post-fire cutaways from the late 1960s.
Period detail: The firefighter's dark coat and helmet, red apparatus, weathered wooden outbuilding, and 8mm color stock may show local emergency and rural property scenes of the late 1960s.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a bystander distance, catching an unstaged firefighter near active damage before drifting to a quiet shed and distant walker.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a helmeted firefighter, red fire truck hardware, flames and wreckage, a weathered wooden shed, bare trees, scattered debris, grass, and a distant person.
Film character: The clip has handheld 8mm texture with soft focus, gate edges, grain, color fading, exposure variation, and contact-print instability that read as original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat between emergency response, aftermath, rural property, and community-history sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually places fire response and damaged rural structures within everyday small-town surroundings without establishing cause, ownership, or official incident details.
Research note: People, possible department markings, emergency apparatus, and property are visible, so likeness, trademark, and property review may be needed separate from footage copyright status.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1968 Wauconda Illinois fire scene, 8mm firefighter home movie, burning house aftermath, rural shed debris, and small-town emergency response footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other Wauconda 1968 material, then broader 1960s fire response, damaged structures, or rural Illinois home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1968 Wauconda, Illinois footage, a helmeted firefighter stands by red apparatus facing a burning damaged structure and scattered debris. — Firefighter beside apparatus at a burning structure with debris in view.

A firefighter seen from behind stands near red fire equipment as smoke, flames, and damaged material appear in the background. — Firefighter viewed from behind near fire apparatus and burning debris.

A weathered wooden shed in rural Wauconda, Illinois appears among bare trees, grass, and scattered debris in 1968 home-movie footage. — Weathered shed and scattered debris in a rural yard.

The rural shed remains in view while a distant person walks near trees and open ground, with debris scattered in the foreground. — Dilapidated shed with debris and a distant walker at frame edge.

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