Albany New York-1955: Flood Damage with Submerged Car and Barrel

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationAlbany, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Flood Damage with Submerged Car and Barrel — Clip Details

ALBANY NEW YORK-1955: A vintage 8mm home movie captures the aftermath of a devastating flood. The footage shows a submerged street with standing water, a wooden barrel washed ashore, and a car partially submerged in the floodwaters. Trees line the flooded road, and the scene is bathed in the muted, grainy colors of 1950s film stock. The camera pans across the damage, revealing debris and the extent of the water's reach. This archival footage offers a poignant look at a natural disaster's impact on a quiet neighborhood, evoking a sense of loss and resilience.

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: 123432136

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1956 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Albany, New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing brief home-movie evidence of flood aftermath, storm damage, or neighborhood disruption in Albany, New York.
Period detail: The 8mm color, boxy street scene, mature roadside trees, and mid-century parked car may show a 1950s residential area after flooding.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes damage at close range, lingering on washed-up debris and standing water with the immediacy of a local witness rather than a staged news setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a partly submerged car, a wooden barrel, wet pavement, floodwater, roadside debris, trees, utility poles, and a distant house.
Film character: The clip has saturated 8mm color, heavy grain, soft focus, dark edge falloff, and handheld framing that gives the damage a direct home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short disaster-aftermath insert, storm-damage cutaway, or memory beat between broader flood context and personal neighborhood impact.
Historical context: The footage visually documents floodwater and debris reaching a quiet tree-lined street, suggesting how severe weather affected everyday residential spaces.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, vehicle, and property-context review should still be handled separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm flood damage, Albany New York home movie, submerged car, washed-up barrel, wet street, and residential storm aftermath.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Albany or 1956 footage if verified, then broader flood aftermath, storm cleanup, and damaged-street clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Albany, New York home-movie frame showing a dark car partly in floodwater near a wooden barrel and roadside debris. — Partly submerged car and wooden barrel along the flooded roadside.

Close view of a wooden barrel washed beside standing water, with part of a dark car visible at the right edge. — Washed-up barrel and the edge of the car in floodwater.

Close handheld view of scattered debris, leaves, and a pale object along the edge of a flooded street. — Debris and leaves gathered at the flooded street edge.

Albany, New York street scene with standing floodwater, trees, utility poles, a distant house, and a parked car. — Floodwater covers part of a tree-lined residential street.

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