Minnesota USA-1965: Construction Site Flooding

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

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Construction Site Flooding — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1965: A flooded industrial construction site captured on 8mm film, showing submerged barges, a partially submerged crane, and debris floating in murky water. The grainy, color-bleached footage reveals a white and red houseboat and other structures overwhelmed by floodwaters, with a distant building visible in the background. A final frame shows a submerged sign, emphasizing the extent of the disaster. This vintage home movie offers a haunting glimpse of a 1960s industrial flood, ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 125312907

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: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing brief editorial evidence of flooding at an industrial or construction waterfront in Minnesota.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, distant industrial structures, barges, and worksite equipment support a mid-1960s home-movie view of flood damage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a fixed, elevated vantage point, recording flood conditions as a bystander rather than staging activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include high floodwater, barges, a crane or derrick, industrial buildings, floating debris, a small red-and-white structure, and a nearly submerged sign.
Film character: The clip has grainy 8mm texture, soft focus, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that reads as physical home-movie evidence.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, disaster-context cutaway, location-establishing transition, or visual beat for flood impact.
Historical context: The footage shows floodwater encroaching on a working waterfront or industrial site, emphasizing infrastructure disruption without identifying a specific event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but property, site identity, copyright, and event context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1965 Minnesota flood footage, 8mm industrial flooding, submerged construction site, home movie disaster footage, and barges in floodwater.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel flood shots, then Minnesota 1965 material, then broader 1960s natural disaster, industrial site, and flood recovery footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Minnesota 1965 8mm frame showing high water around barges, a crane or derrick, debris, and industrial buildings in the distance. — Floodwater surrounds barges and equipment at an industrial waterfront site.

Minnesota 1965 8mm view of a flooded industrial or construction area with barges, crane equipment, and debris in murky water. — Barges and crane equipment sit in high water near distant industrial buildings.

Minnesota 1965 8mm frame focused on floodwater, ripples, floating debris, and a small sign partly surrounded by water. — A small sign and debris mark the high level of floodwater.

Minnesota 1965 8mm frame showing a small sign amid high water, with ripples and debris suggesting a flooded worksite edge. — A partially submerged sign emphasizes the depth of flooding at the site.

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