Minnesota USA-1965: A Flooded Lakeside Community Submerged in Water

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

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A Flooded Lakeside Community Submerged in Water — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1965: A haunting 8mm home movie captures a flooded lakeside community, likely a marina or small harbor, submerged under murky water. Bare tree branches frame the foreground, while partially submerged docks, boats, and buildings stand as silent witnesses to the flood's impact. The grainy, monochrome footage, shot on 8mm film, evokes a somber, nostalgic mood, documenting a moment of natural disaster in a quiet, rural setting. This archival clip offers a poignant glimpse into mid-century American life and environmental challenges.

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: 125313462

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 U.S. flood, waterfront damage, or rural lakeside community coverage in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The footage may show a mid-1960s Minnesota lakeside marina or harbor, with simple docks, small boats, low buildings, and bare shoreline trees visible through an 8mm home-movie view.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a fixed elevated position, giving an unstaged resident or visitor perspective on floodwater covering a waterfront area.
What appears in frame: Visible details include broad floodwater, submerged docks, moored boats, low waterfront buildings, utility poles or pilings, bare branches, distant tree-covered shore, and dark window-like framing.
Film character: The scan has soft 8mm grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and dark edge framing that preserve the texture of physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief disaster cutaway, environmental context insert, transitional memory beat, or visual evidence of waterfront flooding.
Historical context: The clip documents flood impact on a small lakeside working or recreational waterfront without identifying a specific town, storm, or named event from the visible frames alone.
Research note: No people, faces, or logos are visible, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately for the intended use.
Research search match: Searches such as 1960s Minnesota flood footage, 8mm flooded marina, vintage lakeside community underwater, and home movie flood damage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1965 Minnesota waterfront material, then broader vintage flood or natural-disaster home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1965 Minnesota 8mm view of a flooded lakeside waterfront, with docks, small boats, low buildings, bare branches, and distant shoreline. — Floodwater surrounds docks, boats, and waterfront buildings along a lakeside community.

A flooded Minnesota lakeside marina or harbor area appears in 8mm footage, with boats, dock structures, poles, buildings, and wooded shore beyond. — Boats and dock structures sit amid high water near low waterfront buildings.

1965 8mm footage shows floodwater across a lakeside community area, with submerged dock lines, boats, waterfront buildings, and bare trees in front. — A broad flooded shoreline scene shows docks and buildings partly surrounded by water.

The final 1965 Minnesota frame widens across floodwater, showing rows of poles or dock supports, small boats, a building edge, and a wooded shoreline. — Rows of poles or dock supports mark a flooded waterfront area below a wooded shore.

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