Savage Minnesota-1969: Flooded Park Shows Submerged Building and Bare Trees

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

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Flooded Park Shows Submerged Building and Bare Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a flooded park in Savage, Minnesota. Bare trees stand in murky water, their reflections rippling on the surface, while a concrete building and picnic tables are partially submerged. The muted winter palette and grainy film quality evoke a sense of quiet desolation and historical Americana. This archival footage offers a poignant glimpse into a past natural disaster, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 125595740

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: Savage, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1969 8mm home-movie footage of flooding in Savage, Minnesota, useful for documentary or educational edits needing a quiet environmental disaster cutaway.
Period detail: The bare trees, simple park furnishings, muted winter light, and 8mm color stock support a late-1960s home-movie view of a flooded public outdoor area.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a fixed or gently handheld distance, preserving an unstaged visitor perspective on floodwater around trees, benches, and a small concrete structure.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include leafless trees standing in water, reflections on the flood surface, submerged picnic tables or benches, a concrete building, and dark frame edges from the film scan.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, and gate-edge darkness that give the flood scene a tactile home-movie record.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, transition, or memory beat for flood aftermath, winter landscape, regional history, or environmental change sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a flooded wooded park setting without showing people, vehicles, signage, or emergency response activity in these sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any property-use questions should still be reviewed for the intended distribution.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 8mm Minnesota flood footage, Savage Minnesota flooded park, winter flood home movie, and submerged picnic table archive film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Savage or Minnesota 1969 footage, then broader flood, winter park, and Midwestern home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm frame showing bare trees reflected in floodwater with partially submerged park tables beyond. — Floodwater surrounds leafless trees and park tables in a wooded area.

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm view of floodwater through bare trees, with benches or picnic tables standing partly underwater. — Submerged park furnishings appear between bare tree trunks in floodwater.

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm frame showing a small concrete building behind trees standing in reflective floodwater. — A concrete structure sits beyond flooded trees and still water.

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm view of a flooded wooded area with tree reflections and a small concrete building in the background. — Floodwater reflects bare trunks near a small concrete park building.

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