Minnesota USA-1965: Flooded Riverside Town With Submerged Docks And Buildings

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

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Flooded Riverside Town With Submerged Docks And Buildings — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1965, this vintage home movie captures a flooded riverside community in Minnesota. The grainy, high-contrast footage shows submerged docks, partially underwater buildings, and bare trees standing in murky water. A distant bridge and hills line the horizon under an overcast sky. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing the extent of the flood damage. This archival clip offers a haunting glimpse of a natural disaster, with the film's characteristic grain and soft focus enhancing its nostalgic, historical feel. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical 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: 125313469

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 home-movie flood footage for documentary inserts on river flooding, disaster aftermath, or small-town environmental history.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, and distant riverside structures support the supplied 1965 Minnesota context without identifying a specific town or landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from an elevated, likely personal vantage point, slowly scanning the flooded waterfront rather than staging activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include high water, submerged docks, small riverside buildings, bare trees, distant hills, an overcast sky, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, muted color, high contrast, slight softness, and handheld framing that read as authentic home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing cutaway, disaster aftermath insert, regional memory beat, or transition into flood-related testimony.
Historical context: The frames show a riverside community affected by high water, with docks and low structures partly surrounded or submerged by flooding.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are evident, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related use should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1965 Minnesota flood home movie, 8mm flooded river town, submerged docks, and vintage Midwest flood footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Minnesota 1965 material, then with other flood, river, dock, or disaster aftermath footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1965 Minnesota 8mm frame showing high water around dock posts, small structures, and a wooded hillside beyond the river. — Floodwater covers a riverside area with dock posts and distant hills visible through the soft 8mm frame.

1965 Minnesota 8mm frame of a flooded riverside area with dock structures, bare trees, small buildings, and wooded hills in the distance. — The camera looks across floodwater toward docks, low buildings, bare trees, and a distant hillside.

1965 Minnesota home-movie frame showing high water around riverside buildings, dock sections, bare trees, and a wooded background. — Floodwater surrounds low waterfront structures and dock sections beneath an overcast sky.

1965 Minnesota 8mm frame with floodwater spreading across a river bend, bare trees in the foreground, and low hills beyond. — A wider view shows floodwater across the riverside landscape with bare trees and distant hills.

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