Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Dam Break Floods Industrial Area with Overturned Trailer

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

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Dam Break Floods Industrial Area with Overturned Trailer — Clip Details

SAINT PAUL MINNESOTA-1969: A dramatic 8mm home movie captures a catastrophic dam break, with floodwaters engulfing a riverside industrial area. Two figures stand on a stone embankment as murky water surges past a large warehouse and an overturned orange trailer. The scene shifts to a wide view of the flooded river, a bridge, and distant smokestacks under an overcast sky. Shot on 8mm film, this archival footage shows natural grain and color degradation, conveying the urgency and scale of the disaster.

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: 125595300

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: Yes
Minors 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: 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: Useful for 1960s documentary requests needing 8mm disaster, flood, riverfront, or industrial-area footage from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Period detail: The frames may show late-1960s industrial riverfront architecture, utility poles, smokestacks, a bridge, and a box trailer near floodwater.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a bystander home-movie viewpoint, observing two small figures on an embankment and the scale of water around industrial buildings.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, stone embankments, warehouse walls, an orange-and-white trailer, two figures, bridge structure, smokestacks, and overcast sky.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, edge vignetting, and handheld framing that preserve its physical-film character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, location-establishing cutaway, disaster context beat, or transition from close flood damage to a wider river view.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a riverfront industrial area under flood conditions without establishing the cause or exact event from the frames alone.
Research note: People and possible branding are visible, so copyright, likeness, trademark, and location-identification issues should be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Saint Paul flood 8mm, Minnesota industrial river flooding, home movie dam break, and overturned trailer flood footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel disaster footage, then Saint Paul or Minnesota 1969 material, then broader flood, riverfront industry, or infrastructure-damage clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul flood scene showing industrial buildings, a stone riverbank, two figures, and a trailer near rising water. — Two figures stand on a stone embankment near floodwater and industrial buildings.

Saint Paul riverfront flooding in 1969, with two distant figures near a warehouse and a trailer close to the waterline. — A flooded industrial riverbank appears beside a warehouse and a partly visible trailer.

1969 home-movie view of Saint Paul floodwater along an industrial embankment with a warehouse, trailer, and two figures. — Floodwater surrounds the industrial shoreline while two figures watch from the embankment.

Wide Saint Paul flood view from 1969 showing a swollen river, bridge, smokestacks, industrial structures, and cloudy sky. — The view widens to the flooded river, a bridge, smokestacks, and riverside industrial buildings.

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