Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Small Town Devastated by Flood

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

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Small Town Devastated by Flood — Clip Details

SAINT PAUL MINNESOTA-1969: A devastating flood engulfs a small town, with murky water submerging trees and a prominent building up to its roofline. The 8mm home movie footage, shot from an elevated vantage point, captures the widespread inundation under an overcast sky, with power lines cutting across the frame. The scene shifts to a wider view of a riverfront with boats and industrial structures, showcasing the flood's impact on the community. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the vintage film adds to the historical and nostalgic atmosphere, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, editorial content, or historical projects.

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: 125595248

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 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: Saint Paul, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Saint Paul flood footage for documentaries, museum programs, education edits, or editorial sequences needing real 8mm views of riverfront inundation.
Period detail: The elevated viewpoint, riverside buildings, moored boats, and color 8mm texture support a late-1960s home-movie record of flooding in Saint Paul.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a high indoor or sheltered vantage point, recording the flood as a witness rather than staging action or directing subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, leafless trees, a low riverside building, power lines, distant houses, boats, industrial structures, and an overcast sky.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, slight color fading, muted contrast, and handheld framing that gives the flood scene a physical home-movie record texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, establishing cutaway, disaster-history transition, or memory beat within a sequence about river flooding.
Historical context: The frames show a riverfront community under high water, with buildings and trees surrounded by floodwater and a wider view of boats along the bank.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are evident, but location, structures, and copyright status should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Researchers may find this clip through searches for 1969 Saint Paul flood 8mm footage, Minnesota river flooding, vintage home movie floodwater, or riverfront disaster footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel flood views, then Saint Paul or Minnesota footage from 1969, then broader 1960s river flooding and disaster-response material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul 8mm view of floodwater around leafless trees and a low building, seen from an elevated position. — Floodwater reaches trees and a riverside structure in Saint Paul.

Elevated 1969 Saint Paul flood view with water spread across the riverfront, trees partly surrounded, and houses in the distance. — An elevated view shows floodwater across a Saint Paul riverfront area.

Saint Paul flood scene on 8mm film, with murky water surrounding trees and a low riverside building under a muted sky. — Floodwater surrounds a riverside building and trees.

Wide 1969 Saint Paul riverfront view showing boats, shoreline structures, high water, and distant hills under an overcast sky. — A wider riverfront view shows boats and shoreline structures during high water.

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