Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: View Of Object Surrounded By Flooded River On A

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

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View Of Object Surrounded By Flooded River On A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a flooded river in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows submerged structures and debris floating in murky water, with a distant treeline under an overcast sky. The camera remains steady, offering a somber view of the flood's impact on the landscape. This archival clip evokes a sense of historical documentation and environmental change, ideal 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: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125595526

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 for productions needing a cautious establishing or cutaway view of flooding along a river in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Period detail: The distant shoreline, small boats, simple docks or posts, and color 8mm stock may show a late-1960s amateur record of high water without identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from an elevated vantage point, giving the scene the practical, observational feel of a family filmer documenting unusual flood conditions.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include broad muddy water, a distant treeline, small moored boats, partly submerged posts, dark docklike structures, overcast sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, faded color, slight exposure variation, and heavy frame-edge shadowing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, environmental cutaway, or memory beat to suggest flooding, river damage, or weather-related disruption.
Historical context: The footage visually records a riverside landscape affected by high water, with boats and low structures appearing close to or surrounded by floodwater.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable signs are visible, but copyright, location identity, and any property implications should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Saint Paul flood 8mm footage, Minnesota flooded river home movie, vintage river flooding cutaway, and 1960s weather damage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1969 Saint Paul or Minnesota river views, and finally broader flood, weather, or environmental-change clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 8mm view of floodwater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with small boats, submerged posts, a dark structure, and a distant treeline. — Floodwater spreads across a river view with boats and shoreline in the distance.

Saint Paul flood scene on 8mm film showing high water around small boats and posts beneath a cloudy sky in 1969. — High water surrounds small boats and posts near a distant wooded shore.

Elevated 1969 home-movie view over a flooded Saint Paul river area with scattered posts, small boats, and distant land. — An elevated view shows floodwater stretching toward the far shoreline.

1969 Saint Paul 8mm frame showing a flooded river panorama with small boats, posts, and a low distant shoreline. — The flooded river fills the frame below a low, cloudy horizon.

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