Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Muddy Flood Water Submerging Bridge on Cloudy Day

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

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Muddy Flood Water Submerging Bridge on Cloudy Day — Clip Details

SAINT PAUL MINNESOTA-1969: A dramatic 8mm home movie captures a severe flood, with muddy water submerging a bridge and surrounding structures. The overcast sky casts a gray tone over the scene, highlighting the swollen river's force. A concrete barrier with a '1965' marker is partially submerged, indicating the flood's depth. The footage, shot on vintage 8mm film, shows natural grain and slight motion blur, conveying the raw, unfiltered reality of the event. This archival clip offers a powerful glimpse into a historical weather disaster, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 125595381

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 to documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing home-movie views of high muddy water.
Period detail: The frames show vintage color 8mm footage with a riverfront bridge, concrete structures, and a visible 1965 flood marker that may indicate local flood-height reference signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip holds a quiet observer's view from across or above the river, emphasizing the water level rather than staged action or personal performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include fast muddy water, a bridge, riverside concrete walls, utility poles, distant houses, leafless trees, and a 1965 marker sign.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, muted overcast color, mild gate shadowing, and slight handheld instability that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway or transition to establish flooding, river force, or local disaster aftermath in a 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The views place floodwater against built riverfront infrastructure, showing how high water visually related to bridges, walls, and nearby urban edges.
Research note: No people are visible, but the 1965 marker and surrounding structures should be reviewed for signage, location identification, copyright, and property-context concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1969 Saint Paul flood 8mm, Minnesota muddy river flooding, vintage home movie floodwater, and river bridge high water footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel flood shots, then Saint Paul or Minnesota 1969 material, then broader 1960s weather, river, and disaster footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Saint Paul, Minnesota 1969 home-movie frame showing muddy floodwater, a bridge, riverfront structures, and distant houses under cloudy light. — Floodwater fills the river below a bridge, with low hills and houses visible in the distance.

Saint Paul, Minnesota 1969 frame showing high muddy river water below a bridge, with concrete riverfront structures and distant houses. — High muddy water moves past bridge supports and riverside infrastructure on an overcast day.

Saint Paul, Minnesota 1969 frame showing a concrete riverfront wall, windows, yellow structures, and a 1965 marker above floodwater. — A 1965 marker sign on a concrete wall sits just above the muddy floodwater line.

Saint Paul, Minnesota 1969 frame showing muddy floodwater, a concrete wall, a 1965 marker sign, and riverfront building details. — The camera settles on the 1965 marker above high muddy water along the riverfront wall.

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