Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Trucks Drive Over Bridge Amid Flooded Industrial Waterfront

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

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Trucks Drive Over Bridge Amid Flooded Industrial Waterfront — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage footage captures a flooded industrial waterfront in Saint Paul, Minnesota. A red truck drives across a bridge over murky floodwaters, passing a grain elevator with 'SHELBY' signage and a row of large white storage tanks. The scene shows submerged docks, barges, and industrial buildings under an overcast sky, with visible film grain and color fading characteristic of Super 8 home movies. This archival clip offers a nostalgic look at a historic flood event, ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 125595653

Rights & Clearance

$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

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: Supports requests for late-1960s Upper Midwest flood footage, industrial riverfront infrastructure, and transportation cutaways for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The frame may show 1969 Saint Paul waterfront industry, with a bridge, grain elevator signage, storage tanks, barges, and floodwater surrounding low riverfront structures.
Home-movie behavior: The elevated, slightly distant viewpoint gives the scene an unstaged home-movie record of a flood-affected working waterfront rather than a formal news shot.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a bridge with trucks, murky floodwater, a SHELBY-marked grain elevator, white storage tanks, barges, docks, utility poles, and industrial buildings.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that give it recognizable home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a flood insert, industrial waterfront cutaway, transportation transition, or brief memory beat within a 1960s regional history sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents floodwater encroaching on industrial riverfront space, showing how roads, bridges, docks, storage tanks, and grain facilities remained in view.
Research note: Visible SHELBY signage and industrial facilities warrant brand and property review; no people are visible, but copyright and location permissions remain separate clearance questions.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Saint Paul flood footage, 8mm industrial waterfront, Minnesota bridge trucks floodwater, and vintage grain elevator riverfront.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Saint Paul flood material, then broader vintage footage of Midwest river flooding and industrial waterfronts.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul industrial waterfront view with floodwater around a bridge, SHELBY grain elevator, white storage tanks, and barges. — Floodwater surrounds an industrial riverfront as traffic crosses a bridge below.

A red truck crosses a Saint Paul bridge beside floodwater, a SHELBY-marked grain elevator, barges, and white industrial tanks. — A red truck passes the flooded industrial waterfront near the grain elevator and tanks.

Saint Paul flood scene showing a bridge in the foreground, water around industrial buildings, white tanks, barges, and a SHELBY grain elevator. — The elevated view shows floodwater spread across roads and docks near industrial storage tanks.

A red vehicle travels across the bridge in a 1969 Saint Paul flood view with submerged waterfront structures, barges, and white tanks. — Traffic continues across the bridge while floodwater covers the industrial riverfront below.

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