Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Flooded Railroad Tracks and Buildings in Swollen River

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

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Flooded Railroad Tracks and Buildings in Swollen River — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic flood in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The camera pans across a submerged urban landscape, showing train tracks running alongside a swollen river, with buildings and streetlights partially underwater. A small white house stands isolated in the floodwaters, while a distant bridge and power lines frame the scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded colors, and a nostalgic, documentary-style perspective, offering a rare glimpse of a historic natural disaster in a midwestern city.

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: 125595363

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

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: Useful for 1960s documentary edits needing Saint Paul flood footage with rail infrastructure, submerged buildings, and urban river overflow seen from a home-movie viewpoint.
Period detail: The frames show 1969 8mm-era color footage with road signs, tall streetlights, rail tracks, power lines, and low riverside structures partly surrounded by floodwater.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from an elevated, unstaged position, panning across the flooded rail and riverside zone like a local witness documenting damage rather than a news crew.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include curving railway tracks, floodwater, a small white building, traffic signs, streetlights, a distant bridge, power pylons, and low buildings along the far bank.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight gate edges, muted contrast, and handheld framing that give the flood scene a physical home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a disaster-history insert, a river-flood cutaway, a transition into Saint Paul infrastructure context, or a brief memory beat within 1960s Midwest material.
Historical context: The footage visually documents an urban river flood affecting transport corridors and nearby structures, without identifying a specific flood event beyond the supplied 1969 Saint Paul metadata.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property-identification concerns before publication.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Saint Paul flood 8mm footage, Minnesota railway flood home movie, submerged riverside buildings, and Midwest urban flood archive film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Saint Paul or Minnesota 1969 material, then with broader flood, railway, riverfront, and infrastructure damage footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul flood scene with curving railway tracks, a small white building in water, streetlights, signs, bridge, and power lines. — Floodwater covers the rail-side area near a small building and distant bridge.

Saint Paul flood footage shows rail tracks beside high water, a small white riverside building, road signs, streetlights, bridge, and power lines. — Rail tracks and a riverside structure sit beside widespread floodwater.

Wide 1969 Saint Paul flood view across high water toward a bridge and far-bank buildings, with signs and streetlights partly in the foreground. — The camera pans across a broad flooded riverfront area toward the far bank.

Saint Paul flood scene looking over high water toward a distant bridge and riverside buildings, with traffic signs and streetlights in the foreground. — Floodwater fills the foreground while bridge and riverside buildings remain visible in the distance.

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