Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Flooded Streets With Classic Cars And Mounds Park Sign

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

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Flooded Streets With Classic Cars And Mounds Park Sign — Clip Details

SAINT PAUL MINNESOTA-1969: Vintage 8mm film captures flooded streets with classic American cars submerged under water, including a black muscle car and a light blue station wagon. The scene shifts to a historic sign for Mounds Park, an Indian Burial Site in the Saint Paul Park System, with text clearly visible against a pale sky. The footage shows the aftermath of a flood, with water covering roads and buildings, and the grainy, color-bleached quality of 8mm home movie film adds to the nostalgic, archival feel. This raw, unedited footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about 1960s American life.

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: 125595456

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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1960s Saint Paul documentary needs for flood aftermath, street disruption, classic-car cutaways, or public-park signage in archival home-movie footage.
Period detail: Visible clues include late-1960s American cars, flooded urban streets, brick buildings, and a Mounds Park sign identifying an Indian Burial Site in the Saint Paul Park System.
Home-movie behavior: The short sequence has a visitor-shot feel, moving from flooded parked cars to a readable public sign without staged action or visible participants.
What appears in frame: Frames show high water around parked cars, brick structures, a pale sky, a Mounds Park hanging sign, a carved post, bare trees, and readable park-system text.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, transition, or place-setting cutaway for flood aftermath, 1960s urban life, Saint Paul geography, or public memory of historic sites.
Historical context: The clip visually connects local flood conditions with a public marker for Mounds Park, offering context on urban landscape, cars, parks, and memorialized Indigenous history.
Research note: No people, brands, or audible music are indicated, but users should review copyright status, visible property context, and culturally sensitive wording on the burial-site sign.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Saint Paul flood footage, 8mm Minnesota streets, classic cars in floodwater, Mounds Park sign, and Saint Paul Park System archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1969 Saint Paul or Minnesota footage, and then broader themes of floods, public parks, classic cars, and urban home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul home-movie frame showing floodwater around parked cars beside brick structures. — Flooded street with classic cars and brick buildings in Saint Paul.

Saint Paul flood scene with a light sedan and station wagon partly surrounded by standing water. — Cars parked in high water near brick structures and a gate.

Mounds Park sign in Saint Paul Park System, identifying an Indian Burial Site, filmed from below. — Readable Mounds Park sign hanging from a carved post.

1969 Saint Paul frame of the Mounds Park sign with Indian Burial Site and park-system text visible. — Public Mounds Park sign with burial-site wording and elevation detail.

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