Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Flooded River with Submerged Boats and Docks

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

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Flooded River with Submerged Boats and Docks — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic flood in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The sequence shows a wide river overflowing its banks, submerging docks, boats, and low-lying structures. Bare trees and a distant hillside with scattered houses frame the scene under an overcast sky. The footage, viewed through a natural frame, exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage of a midwestern flood event.

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: 125595640

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 home-movie footage for productions needing a Midwestern flood view, river-overflow cutaway, or environmental-history insert.
Period detail: The bare trees, distant hillside homes, docks, and small boats may show a late-1960s Saint Paul riverfront during spring flood conditions.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a sheltered or wooded overlook, giving the scene an unstaged visitor or resident viewpoint rather than a formal news angle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an overfilled river, submerged docks, moored boats, leafless trees, hillside houses, shoreline brush, and a dark foreground frame.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, flood aftermath cutaway, transition between river scenes, or memory beat for local history.
Historical context: The footage documents high water around boats and riverside structures, offering visual context for how flooding affected low-lying riverfront areas.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any identifiable riverside property context should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1969 Saint Paul flood 8mm footage, Minnesota river flood home movie, submerged docks vintage film, and 1960s Midwest flooding.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Saint Paul material, then broader river flood, weather, and Midwestern landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul home-movie view of a swollen river, partly submerged docks, boats, bare trees, and a distant hillside. — Floodwater covers riverside docks and low structures below a wooded overlook.

Saint Paul, Minnesota riverfront in 1969, showing high water, leafless trees, docks, and scattered houses across the hillside. — High water spreads across the riverfront with docks and hillside homes beyond.

1969 8mm view of Saint Paul floodwater along a riverbank, with dock structures, leafless trees, and homes on the far slope. — Floodwater fills the riverbank below leafless trees and distant hillside houses.

Soft 1969 home-movie frame from Saint Paul, showing a wooded hillside, small distant structures, and floodplain trees near the river. — The camera drifts toward the wooded hillside above the flooded riverfront.

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