Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Flooded River with Submerged Buildings

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

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Flooded River with Submerged Buildings — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this archival footage captures a dramatic flood in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The camera holds a static, high-angle view of a swollen river inundating the city, with buildings and docks partially submerged. Bare trees line the banks, and industrial structures are visible across the water under an overcast sky. The image shows characteristic 8mm film grain, color fading, and a dark vignette frame, conveying a somber, historical mood. This vintage home movie offers authentic, unfiltered documentation of a natural disaster.

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: 125595489

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 educational edits needing authentic Saint Paul flood footage, high-angle river views, or urban natural-disaster context from 8mm home movies.
Period detail: The frames show a 1969 8mm view over Saint Paul with low industrial riverside buildings, docks, bare trees, and a broad flooded river under an overcast sky.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a high, static vantage point, giving the footage the value of a witness record rather than a staged news or official survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swollen river, partly submerged docks, low waterside buildings, bare branches, distant industrial structures, shoreline trees, and a dark 8mm frame edge.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight fading, and heavy vignette edges give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, disaster-context cutaway, transition into flood coverage, or quiet memory beat about weather and urban vulnerability.
Historical context: The view documents floodwater reaching built riverfront areas in Saint Paul, with no visible people and no claim beyond the inundation seen in the frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property or municipal-use questions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Saint Paul flood 8mm footage, Minnesota river flooding, submerged docks, vintage home movie disaster footage, and 1960s urban flood scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Saint Paul or 1969 Minnesota footage, then broader vintage flood, river, and natural-disaster material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul 8mm frame showing floodwater around riverfront docks and low buildings, with bare trees and an industrial shore in the distance. — Floodwater surrounds docks and riverside structures below a high overlook in Saint Paul.

High-angle 1969 Saint Paul view of a swollen river covering docks near low waterside buildings, with leafless trees and distant structures beyond. — A static overlook shows riverfront docks and buildings surrounded by floodwater.

1969 Saint Paul flood scene with water spread across the riverfront, a small platform or dock, low buildings, and bare foreground branches. — Flooded riverfront structures and docks sit below a dark 8mm frame edge.

Final 1969 Saint Paul frame showing floodwater across the riverfront, with low structures, dock sections, bare branches, and a distant shore. — The river remains high around docks and low riverside structures at the end of the clip.

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