Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Flooded Parking Lot With Stranded Classic Cars

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

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Flooded Parking Lot With Stranded Classic Cars — Clip Details

SAINT PAUL MINNESOTA-1969: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a severe flood inundating a city parking lot. Classic American sedans and a station wagon are stranded in murky water, with a large bridge spanning the flooded area in the background. The scene, viewed through a window frame, shows a mix of wet pavement and submerged vehicles under an overcast sky, with a brick building and utility poles visible. The footage exhibits authentic 8mm film grain and color fading, offering a nostalgic look at a historic urban flood.

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: 125595435

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 or museum edits needing urban flood aftermath in Saint Paul with stranded mid-century cars and bridge-adjacent infrastructure.
Period detail: The sedans, station wagon, muted color stock, and 8mm framing support a late-1960s setting consistent with the supplied 1969 Saint Paul metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The view appears shot from behind a window or structural frame, giving an unstaged observer's record of floodwater around parked vehicles.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, parked sedans, a station wagon, a brick building, bridge supports, utility poles, wet pavement, and a dark window frame.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and handheld home-movie framing that give it authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a flood insert, urban-disaster cutaway, or quiet memory beat between broader Saint Paul or Minnesota weather sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents flood disruption around ordinary parking and roadway space without showing people or identifiable emergency activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are evident, but copyright and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Saint Paul flood footage, 8mm Minnesota flood home movie, flooded parking lot, stranded classic cars, and urban flood aftermath.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Saint Paul 1969 material, then Minnesota flood scenes or broader 1960s urban weather aftermath footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Saint Paul 1969 flood scene showing parked sedans and a station wagon near a bridge, viewed through a dark window frame. — Floodwater surrounds parked cars near a bridge and brick building.

Saint Paul 1969 home-movie frame of floodwater around parked vehicles beside a bridge and brick building. — Stranded cars sit along a flooded urban parking area beneath a bridge.

Saint Paul 1969 flood view with a blue sedan partly at frame edge, standing water, bridge support, and brick building. — A blue sedan borders standing floodwater near bridge infrastructure.

Saint Paul 1969 frame showing floodwater beside a blue sedan with bridge supports and a brick building in the background. — Floodwater reflects bridge supports while a blue sedan remains at the edge of the lot.

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