Rockford Minnesota-1969: Flood Submerges Residential Area With Submerged Homes And Trees

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationRockford, Minnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Minnesota

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Flood Submerges Residential Area With Submerged Homes... — Clip Details

ROCKFORD MINNESOTA-1969: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a severe flood in a quiet residential area. The footage shows a dirt road and houses partially submerged by rising water, with bare trees lining the flooded landscape. A red sign and a white structure are partially underwater, illustrating the extent of the inundation. The scene is shot from a moving perspective, likely from a vehicle, with the characteristic grain and color palette of 1960s Super 8 film. This archival footage offers a poignant look at a natural disaster in a small American town.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125595216

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1019 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: savage minnesota
Date: 1969 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: Rockford, 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 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests for small-town Minnesota flooding and residential disaster aftermath.
Period detail: The bare trees, modest roadside structures, washed-out color, and 8mm home-movie handling support the supplied 1969 Rockford, Minnesota context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged roadside or vehicle-passenger viewpoint, observing floodwater at neighborhood scale without visible posed subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, leafless trees, a partly submerged red sign, a small white frame-like structure, houses, a road, fencing, and utility poles.
Film character: The scan shows warm 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges that add physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, disaster-context cutaway, transition, or memory beat for flood impact on residential streets.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for a flooded small American town landscape, with water reaching signs, yards, roads, and nearby homes.
Research note: No people are visible, but the red sign may contain branding or identifiable text and nearby homes or property may need separate review from copyright status.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Rockford Minnesota flood, 1960s 8mm flood footage, residential flooding, submerged trees, and home-movie disaster footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel flood scenes, then other Rockford or Minnesota 1969 material, then broader small-town flood and natural-disaster footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Rockford, Minnesota 8mm frame showing floodwater around leafless trees, a partly submerged red sign, and a small white structure. — Floodwater covers the base of trees and roadside objects in a residential area.

1969 Rockford, Minnesota flood scene with bare trees, a red sign partly underwater, and a small white structure at the waterline. — A red sign and nearby trees are partly surrounded by floodwater.

1969 Rockford, Minnesota 8mm still of high water around leafless trees, a partly submerged red sign, and a white structure. — High water reaches roadside trees and structures in the neighborhood flood scene.

1969 Rockford, Minnesota frame showing standing floodwater near houses, fencing, leafless trees, and a road or driveway. — Floodwater spreads across a residential area near houses, fencing, and roadside trees.

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