Minnesota USA-1965: Tree in a River and Big Iron Bridge over It in the Distance

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Year1965
Decade1960s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1965 Minnesota

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Tree in a River and Big Iron Bridge over It in the Distance — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1965, this vintage home movie captures a flooded river landscape in Minnesota. A weathered iron truss bridge spans the water, partially obscured by bare winter trees. A lone figure walks across a makeshift wooden plank bridge in the middle distance, navigating the high water. The footage shows natural film grain, slight camera shake, and a muted color palette typical of Super 8 film from the era. The scene evokes a sense of quiet resilience and rural Americana, with the bridge serving as a focal point against the overcast sky and flooded forest.

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: 125312381

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 1030 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: itasca park,bayfield,duluth,winter carnival,water tower bicycles
Reel-level year note: 1965
Reel-level location note: itasca park,bayfield,duluth,minnesota
Date: 1965 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: Minnesota, 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: Useful for 1960s documentary or educational edits needing Minnesota home-movie footage of flooding, rural waterways, or an iron truss bridge landscape.
Period detail: The 8mm color, bare trees, simple plank crossing, and older iron truss bridge may show a mid-1960s rural river setting in Minnesota.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the flooded scene from a distance, with a lone person crossing a makeshift plank in an unstaged home-movie moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include high river water, leafless trees, a dark iron truss bridge, a narrow plank crossing, reflected branches, and one distant walking figure.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, muted color, gate-edge darkening, slight handheld movement, and uneven exposure that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a flood cutaway, rural transition, infrastructure insert, or quiet memory beat in a 1960s Midwest sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a flooded wooded river area where improvised passage and bridge infrastructure appear within the same rural landscape.
Research note: A distant person is visible, so likeness review may be needed even though no brands, music, or clearly identifiable private property are apparent.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1965 Minnesota 8mm flood footage, rural iron bridge over river, home movie flooded trees, and midcentury Midwest landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Minnesota 1965 footage, then related clips of floods, rural bridges, rivers, winter trees, or Midwest home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1965 Minnesota 8mm frame showing high water among bare trees, with a distant plank crossing and iron bridge structure beyond. — High water surrounds leafless trees near a distant plank crossing and iron bridge.

1965 Minnesota home-movie frame with a distant person crossing a narrow plank above floodwater near bare trees and an iron bridge. — A small figure crosses a plank over floodwater in front of a distant iron bridge.

1965 Minnesota 8mm view of an iron truss bridge spanning floodwater, partly obscured by leafless foreground branches. — The iron truss bridge appears through dense bare branches over high water.

1965 Minnesota home-movie frame showing the iron truss bridge across a flooded river, framed by winter-bare trees. — Bare trees frame the iron bridge as it crosses the swollen river.

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