Minnesota USA-1965: Television Broadcast of Flood with Helicopter and Wading Man

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

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Television Broadcast of Flood with Helicopter and Wading Man — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1965: A vintage 8mm home movie clip shows grainy, low-resolution footage of a flood being broadcast on an old television set. The screen displays a flooded street with water covering the road, a person wading through the water, and a helicopter flying overhead. The image is distorted with film grain and scan lines, capturing the raw, unfiltered look of a 1960s home movie recording a natural disaster. The orange casing of the television frames the scene, emphasizing the archival nature of the 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: 125312689

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s documentary or editorial requests needing home-movie footage of a television news broadcast about flooding in Minnesota.
Period detail: The rounded television screen, scan-line texture, and color 8mm filming of a broadcast support a mid-1960s domestic viewing context.
Home-movie behavior: The value comes from a household camera filming a television report, preserving how a distant flood event entered a private viewing space.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curved television screen, floodwater, a house or building, a helicopter, a vehicle, utility lines, and a person wading.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, heavy grain, screen flicker, and exposure shifts from filming a low-resolution television image.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, memory beat, or transition connecting domestic media viewing with flood coverage.
Historical context: The footage shows a natural-disaster broadcast being rephotographed from a television set, suggesting the role of TV news in home awareness of flooding.
Research note: People appear only within the broadcast image; review copyright in the underlying TV footage separately from any likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Search matches include 1965 Minnesota flood television broadcast, 8mm home movie TV screen, helicopter flood coverage, and man wading in floodwater.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Minnesota 1965 material, then broader flood, television news, or disaster-response footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1965 Minnesota home-movie frame of a television broadcast showing floodwater near a building, with visible scan lines and screen distortion. — A home movie camera records a flood scene from a television broadcast.

Grainy 1965 Minnesota television broadcast footage shows a flooded street with a vehicle, overhead lines, and a distant helicopter-like shape. — Flood coverage appears on the curved television screen, with vehicles and lines visible above the water.

1965 Minnesota broadcast footage on a television screen shows a person wading in floodwater beside a house or low building. — A person moves through floodwater in the televised scene.

Televised 1965 Minnesota flood footage shows a person in dark clothing wading through water in front of a building. — The broadcast holds on a wading figure surrounded by floodwater.

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