Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Vintage Film Depicting A Wooded Valley Flooded By

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

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Vintage Film Depicting A Wooded Valley Flooded By — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a devastating flood in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The footage shows a wide, waterlogged valley with submerged buildings, docks, and a water tower, all surrounded by bare trees and a wooded hillside. The overcast sky and muted colors convey the somber mood of the disaster. This archival clip offers a raw, unfiltered look at a natural disaster, with visible film grain and the characteristic frame borders of a Super 8 home movie.

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: 125595636

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm home-movie footage for edits needing a Midwestern flood scene, disaster aftermath cutaway, or archival environmental record from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Period detail: The bare trees, small docks, muted color stock, and distant riverside structures may show a late-1960s residential waterfront area during high water.
Home-movie behavior: The elevated, handheld viewpoint gives the scene an unstaged observer's record of flood conditions rather than a composed news-camera survey.
What appears in frame: Visible details include floodwater, submerged docks, small waterfront buildings, bare trees, a wooded hillside, distant houses, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries soft 8mm grain, slight exposure fluctuation, muted color, and visible frame edges that make the scan read as original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief disaster insert, regional establishing cutaway, environmental transition, or memory beat within a flood or weather-history sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents high water around a wooded valley and riverside structures, without showing identifiable people, emergency crews, or official response activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are evident, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Saint Paul flood home movie, 8mm Minnesota flood footage, submerged docks, wooded valley flooding, and vintage disaster aftermath.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then Saint Paul or Minnesota 1969 material, then broader 1960s flood, storm runoff, or riverside damage scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul home-movie frame showing floodwater around docks and small waterfront structures below a wooded hillside. — Floodwater covers a riverside valley with docks and bare trees in view.

1969 Saint Paul flood view with submerged dock lines, distant houses, bare trees, and soft 8mm frame edges. — An elevated view looks across high water toward docks and a wooded hillside.

Saint Paul, Minnesota flood footage from 1969, viewed from a hillside across waterlogged docks and riverside buildings. — The camera looks over hillside grass toward a flooded waterfront area.

Late-1960s Saint Paul flood scene with submerged waterfront structures, bare trees, and distant hillside homes on 8mm film. — Submerged docks and waterfront buildings sit below a wooded hillside.

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