Saint Paul Minnesota-1969: Red Car Crosses Bridge over Flooded River

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

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Red Car Crosses Bridge over Flooded River — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a flooded industrial riverside in Saint Paul, Minnesota. A red car moves across a bridge over murky water, passing a grain elevator and a row of large white silos. The scene transitions to a distant view of the city skyline, framed by bare tree branches, showcasing mid-century urban architecture under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

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: 125595659

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: Useful for 1960s documentary requests needing Saint Paul flood, riverside industry, bridge traffic, or distant urban skyline material from home-movie 8mm footage.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century industrial riverfront infrastructure, a small car on a bridge, bare trees, and a distant downtown skyline consistent with the supplied 1969 Saint Paul metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor or resident viewpoint, observing a flooded riverside and skyline from an elevated position rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, a bridge, a red car, grain-elevator structures, white silos, bare branches, industrial lots, and a distant city skyline.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that support its archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, flood-context cutaway, city transition, or memory beat between riverfront and skyline material.
Historical context: The views visually connect urban Saint Paul with industrial riverfront activity and high water, without proving a specific flood event beyond the supplied 1969 metadata.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright, location depiction, and any property-identification concerns for their use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 Saint Paul 8mm flood footage, Minnesota riverfront industry, bridge over flooded water, grain silos, and vintage city skyline home movies.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Saint Paul or 1969 Minnesota material, then broader themes of flooding, river industry, bridges, and urban skylines.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Saint Paul 8mm frame showing a red car on a bridge near floodwater, industrial buildings, and white riverside silos. — A red car crosses a bridge beside a flooded industrial riverfront and grain storage structures.

1969 Saint Paul view of bridge traffic beside high water, a grain-elevator complex, and rows of white silos. — Bridge traffic passes the flooded riverside industrial area with silos and utility structures in view.

1969 Saint Paul skyline seen across water through bare tree branches, with downtown buildings under a pale sky. — The view shifts to a distant Saint Paul skyline framed by bare branches and water in the foreground.

1969 Saint Paul 8mm skyline view with tall downtown buildings, leafless branches, and water below the overlook. — A steady skyline view closes the clip, with downtown buildings seen beyond bare winter or early spring trees.

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