Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Roads And Bridges Flooded In A Natural Disaster That

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

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Roads And Bridges Flooded In A Natural Disaster That — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this archival footage captures a devastating flood in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Widespread water inundates roads and bridges, submerging vehicles and structures. Bare trees and overgrown vegetation frame the scene, with a long pier or causeway partially submerged. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 home movie conveys a sense of urgency and historical documentation. This footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring natural disasters and mid-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: 125595632

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: 1960s 8mm flood footage from Saint Paul for documentary or educational edits needing elevated views of inundated roads, bridges, and riverfront infrastructure.
Period detail: The frames may show late-1960s riverfront roads, simple lamp posts, parked vehicles, and waterfront structures seen through color-shifted home-movie film.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor or resident viewpoint from above the flooded area, observing the disaster without staged action or visible participants.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, submerged roads, a bridge or pier, bare trees, parked vehicles, lamp posts, distant shoreline, and waterfront structures.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges that preserve the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, disaster cutaway, river-level transition, or archival memory beat about flooding impacts.
Historical context: The clip visually documents floodwater interrupting transportation and waterfront access, with bare trees suggesting a cool-season or early-spring setting.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any visible property or infrastructure concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Saint Paul flood 8mm footage, Minnesota river flooding home movie, flooded roads and bridges archive, and 1960s natural disaster film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other scenes from the same reel, then Saint Paul or Minnesota footage from 1969, then broader flood, river, bridge, and natural disaster material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul flood view showing water over a riverfront road, a parked vehicle, lamp posts, bare branches, and distant shoreline. — Floodwater surrounds a riverfront road and nearby vehicle.

Elevated 1969 Saint Paul view of floodwater around a waterfront bridge or pier, with bare trees, shoreline, and roadways visible. — Bare trees frame a flooded waterfront and bridge or pier.

1969 Saint Paul flood scene with bare trees in front of submerged waterfront roads, a bridge or pier, and distant river flats. — Floodwater spreads across roads and waterfront access points.

Wide 1969 Saint Paul flood view showing a long pier or causeway partly surrounded by water, bare trees, posts, and distant hillside. — A long pier or causeway stands amid widespread floodwater.

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