Minnesota USA-1965: Severe Flood With Turbulent Water And Submerged Pier

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

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Severe Flood With Turbulent Water And Submerged Pier — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1965: A dramatic 8mm home movie captures a severe flood, showing turbulent, churning water rushing through a wooded area with bare trees. The scene shifts to a flooded industrial waterfront, where a long pier is submerged and boats are partially underwater, with a crane and buildings visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color, conveying the raw power of the flood and the disruption to the landscape. This archival film offers a visceral 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: 125312890

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 flood footage for documentary or educational edits needing home-movie views of high water, damaged waterfront access, and disrupted riverside infrastructure.
Period detail: The 8mm footage may show mid-1960s riverfront structures, small boats, a pier, and industrial waterfront buildings seen during flooding.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes flood conditions from a distant, unposed vantage, emphasizing the witness value of a home-movie record rather than staged coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include churning floodwater, bare riverside trees, a submerged pier, small boats, a crane, waterfront buildings, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, muted color, slight blur, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of an original home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, disaster-context insert, or transition from natural flood force to waterfront impact.
Historical context: The frames document flooding around wooded riverbank and working waterfront areas, without identifying a specific river, town, business, or event beyond the supplied Minnesota 1965 metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location identification should still be reviewed before publication.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1965 Minnesota flood 8mm footage, home movie floodwater, submerged pier, industrial waterfront flooding, and vintage river flood film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Minnesota 1965 flood material, then broader 1960s river flooding, storm damage, or waterfront disruption footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1965 Minnesota home-movie frame showing turbulent floodwater rushing past bare riverside trees. — Floodwater churns through a wooded riverbank area.

1965 Minnesota flood scene with swirling water, foam, and leafless trees along the bank. — Turbulent water moves past a wooded edge.

1965 Minnesota frame showing high water around a long pier, small boats, and shoreline structures. — A pier and boats sit in high water along the flooded waterfront.

1965 Minnesota home-movie frame showing small boats, a crane, and waterfront buildings surrounded by floodwater. — Boats and waterfront equipment are surrounded by floodwater.

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