Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Highway Flooded Due To Heavy Rains

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

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Highway Flooded Due To Heavy Rains — Clip Details

SAINT PAUL MINNESOTA-1969: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a dramatic flood scene, with murky water submerging a highway intersection. Road signs for 'Down Town' and 'Warner Road' are partially submerged, and a streetlight stands in the flooded roadway. A helicopter flies overhead against a pale purple sky, suggesting aerial assessment of the disaster. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, evoking a sense of historical urgency and environmental crisis from the late 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
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: 125595348

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: 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

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 Saint Paul flood footage suited for documentary requests needing brief 8mm evidence of urban roadway flooding and emergency-era weather disruption.
Period detail: The overhead road signs, twin-arm streetlight, and 8mm color stock may show late-1960s highway design and traffic control in Saint Paul.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the value of an onlooker recording an unfolding flood from a fixed vantage point rather than a staged news setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater across a roadway, Down Town and Warner Road signs, a streetlight, sign supports, a speed marker, pale sky, and a helicopter overhead.
Film character: Soft 8mm grain, muted color, slight gate framing, and handheld steadiness give the scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short disaster insert, location-setting cutaway, or transition into weather, infrastructure, or urban flood coverage.
Historical context: The footage visually places heavy rain impacts within a city road network, with traffic infrastructure surrounded by floodwater and aircraft activity above.
Research note: No people are visible, but road signage and location identification should be reviewed for editorial context; copyright and property or trademark issues remain separate checks.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Saint Paul flood, Minnesota highway flooding, 8mm urban disaster footage, helicopter over floodwater, and Warner Road flood signs.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1969 Saint Paul or Minnesota footage, then broader 1960s flood, highway, rain, or disaster sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul 8mm frame with a helicopter above the flood scene and roadway signs partly visible below. — A helicopter passes above floodwater covering the road area beneath the signs.

A helicopter appears over the Saint Paul flood scene, with murky water and road signage low in the frame. — The helicopter is visible in the sky while the flooded roadway remains below.

Saint Paul floodwater covers the roadway below signs for Down Town and Warner Road, with a streetlight in front. — Road signs and a streetlight stand over high floodwater at the roadway.

1969 Saint Paul frame showing roadway signs for Down Town and Warner Road above broad muddy floodwater. — The flooded intersection or highway approach is marked by visible direction signs above the water.

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