Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: River Floods Waterfront Buildings

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

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River Floods Waterfront Buildings — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic flood in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The footage shows a wide river overflowing its banks, submerging buildings and industrial structures along the waterfront. Bare tree branches frame the foreground, while the distant cityscape remains visible under an overcast sky. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and film edge borders evoke a strong sense of historical documentation. This archival clip offers a poignant look at a natural disaster, ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring mid-20th century 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: 125595513

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage useful for documentary or editorial requests about flooding, riverfront damage, and mid-century urban environmental conditions in Saint Paul.
Period detail: The frames show a 1969 waterfront scene with industrial sheds, small riverside structures, bare trees, and distant low-rise development, with no visible vehicles or signage to refine the date.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like an observer filming from a raised bank or window area, using a short handheld look across floodwater rather than a staged news setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, long industrial buildings, small riverside structures, distant shoreline, bare tree branches, an overcast sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, muted color, slight exposure fluctuation, and visible frame edges that support its home-movie archival character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, disaster cutaway, transition into flood aftermath, or quiet visual beat in a regional history sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a riverfront area under high water, suggesting flood impact on industrial and shoreline spaces without identifying a specific storm or event beyond the supplied 1969 Saint Paul metadata.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Saint Paul flood footage, Minnesota river flooding home movie, 8mm industrial waterfront flood, and 1960s disaster aftermath film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1969 Saint Paul or Minnesota river scenes, then broader home-movie flood and storm-damage material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul 8mm frame showing floodwater around industrial waterfront buildings, with bare branches in the foreground and a distant shoreline. — Floodwater surrounds riverside industrial structures as bare branches frame the foreground.

Saint Paul flood scene from 1969 showing high water around long industrial waterfront sheds and a distant opposite bank under an overcast sky. — Long waterfront buildings sit partly surrounded by floodwater below a distant shoreline.

1969 Saint Paul home-movie frame looking over floodwater toward a long waterfront building, a small riverside structure, and a distant shore. — A long riverside building and a small structure stand amid high water along the shoreline.

Saint Paul 1969 8mm frame showing a flooded industrial waterfront, with a long dark building, small riverside structure, and bare branches at the edge. — The camera holds on floodwater around waterfront structures with bare branches at the lower edge.

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