Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Flood Submerges Buildings And Road With Stranded Car

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

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Flood Submerges Buildings And Road With Stranded Car — Clip Details

SAINT PAUL MINNESOTA-1969: A dramatic 8mm home movie captures a massive flood inundating a riverside area. Water engulfs buildings, including a structure with a partially visible 'AERO MECHANICS' sign, and submerges a road where a vintage car is stranded. Bare trees and utility poles emerge from the murky floodwaters, illustrating the scale of the disaster. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows a high water level and turbulent flow, with a small boat or raft visible on the flooded roadway. The grainy, monochrome quality and dark borders are characteristic of vintage home movie footage from the late 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125595625

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$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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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: 1969 Saint Paul 8mm flood footage suited to documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing visible urban river flooding and infrastructure disruption.
Period detail: The clip shows late-1960s home-movie film texture, vintage cars, roadside utility poles, bare trees, and a riverside structure with a partially visible AERO MECHANICS sign.
Home-movie behavior: The elevated viewpoint and brief reframing feel like an unstaged home-movie record of flood conditions observed from a nearby high vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, low riverside buildings, the AERO MECHANICS sign, utility towers, a submerged road, stranded cars, bare trees, and a small boat or raft.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft grain, dark gate borders, muted color, slight exposure variation, and a handheld archival texture consistent with physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, disaster cutaway, transition from river conditions to street impact, or short memory beat in a flood sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents high water overtaking a developed riverside area, with transportation routes and buildings partly submerged in Saint Paul.
Research note: The AERO MECHANICS sign and visible vehicles may require brand or property review; copyright, trademark, and property considerations are separate from likeness rights.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Saint Paul flood 8mm footage, Minnesota river flooding home movie, submerged road vintage car, and urban flood archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Saint Paul or Minnesota 1969 material, then broader Midwestern flood, river overflow, and disaster-response footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul floodwater surrounds riverside buildings, utility structures, and a partially visible AERO MECHANICS sign. — Floodwater rises around riverside buildings and utility structures.

Saint Paul flood scene shows low buildings, a partially visible sign, and utility posts standing in high water. — Low buildings and utility posts stand amid high floodwater.

1969 Saint Paul floodwater covers a road where two vintage vehicles sit near utility poles and bare trees. — Vehicles sit on or near a flooded roadway as water covers the surrounding area.

Saint Paul flood footage shows a submerged roadway with a blue car, a small white craft or vehicle, poles, and bare branches. — A flooded roadway is seen from above with vehicles and roadside poles partly surrounded by water.

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