Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: A Flood Submerges Industrial Buildings and Roads

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

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A Flood Submerges Industrial Buildings and Roads — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic flood in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The view from an elevated position shows a wide river overflowing its banks, submerging roads and industrial buildings. Bare tree branches frame the foreground, while the overcast sky casts a muted, gray tone over the scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a raw, archival glimpse of a natural disaster in a midwestern city.

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: 125595570

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 documentary or educational requests needing 1969-era Saint Paul flood views, especially elevated home-movie coverage of riverfront inundation and industrial waterfront impact.
Period detail: The frame may show late-1960s riverfront infrastructure, low industrial buildings, roadways, and an elevated overlook consistent with the supplied Saint Paul, Minnesota metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged observer filming from a high vantage point, watching floodwater cover roads and edge into industrial areas without narration or posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad flooded river, submerged road sections, industrial buildings, bare tree branches, a bridge or ramp, distant shoreline, and an overcast sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight gate edges, and a handheld home-movie feel that supports its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, disaster-context cutaway, transition into flood coverage, or reflective memory beat for Midwestern river history.
Historical context: The footage visually documents floodwater around an urban industrial riverfront, showing infrastructure and shoreline conditions without identifying a specific flood event beyond the supplied 1969 metadata.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property or location sensitivities before publication.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Saint Paul Minnesota flood footage, 8mm home movie river flooding, vintage industrial waterfront flood, and Midwest archival flood scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Saint Paul or Minnesota 1969 material, and then with broader river flooding, industrial waterfront, or disaster-response themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul home-movie view of floodwater around a riverfront area, with bare branches in the foreground and industrial buildings below. — Elevated view of floodwater spreading across a Saint Paul riverfront area.

Elevated 1969 Saint Paul view across a swollen river, with leafless branches in front and industrial waterfront structures partly surrounded by water. — Wide river flood view framed by bare trees and riverfront buildings.

Saint Paul flood scene from 1969 showing water over low roads near industrial riverfront buildings, with bare trees and a bridge or ramp in the foreground. — Flooded roads and industrial structures along the riverfront.

1969 Saint Paul elevated home-movie frame showing floodwater around a riverbank, bare branches in the foreground, and low industrial structures near the water. — Floodwater surrounds the riverbank below an elevated overlook.

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