Minnesota USA-1965: Swift Flowing Water Overwhelms A Dam And Floods A Nearby

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

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Swift Flowing Water Overwhelms A Dam And Floods A Nearby — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1965: Swift water rushes over a concrete dam, creating turbulent rapids and whitecaps as it floods the surrounding area. The 8mm home movie footage captures the raw power of nature with grainy, saturated colors and a vintage aesthetic. The scene shows water overwhelming the structure, with splashing waves and churning currents. The final frame shifts to a blurry, distorted view of a town or road, possibly from a television monitor, suggesting the aftermath of the flood. This archival clip offers a dramatic look at a natural disaster from the mid-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: 125312513

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 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: 1960s Minnesota 8mm footage for documentary or educational edits needing floodwater, dam overflow, or natural-disaster context from a home-movie source.
Period detail: The concrete dam, soft color, and 8mm frame texture support a mid-1960s archival reading, though no signs or landmarks are visible in these stills.
Home-movie behavior: The footage appears shot from an observer's vantage point, holding on turbulent water rather than staged action or identifiable people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam, spillway rails, churning whitewater, dark river rocks, foamy current, and one blurred monitor-like view of a snowy road or town scene.
Film character: The clip has grainy 8mm color, slight softness, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture of the source.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a disaster insert, flood transition, environmental cutaway, or memory beat linking local infrastructure to severe water conditions.
Historical context: The scene visually documents flood pressure on a dam structure and surrounding water, without enough visible evidence to identify a specific event or exact site.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, source ownership, and any property or location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1960s Minnesota flood footage, 8mm dam overflow, home movie rapids, concrete spillway flood, and vintage natural disaster water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Minnesota 1965 material, and then with broader flood, dam, storm, or disaster aftermath clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1965 Minnesota 8mm frame showing turbulent whitewater below a concrete dam and spillway structure. — Swift water churns below the dam as foam spreads across the river surface.

1965 Minnesota home-movie frame with rough water pushing past rocks below a concrete dam. — The current breaks into whitecaps beneath the dam structure.

1965 Minnesota 8mm frame showing churning rapids and foamy current near a concrete dam. — Foam and rapids fill the lower part of the frame as water spills past the dam.

Soft, distorted 1965 Minnesota frame that may show a snowy road or town view, possibly filmed from a monitor. — The final view shifts to an indistinct snowy road or town scene with screen-like distortion.

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