Savage Minnesota-1969: Floodwaters Rising Through Wooded Area

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

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Floodwaters Rising Through Wooded Area — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic flood in Savage, Minnesota. Water rises through a wooded area, submerging tree trunks and reflecting the bare branches in its murky surface. A small structure, possibly a barn or shed, stands partially flooded in the background. The footage shows the encroaching floodwaters from a fixed perspective, with natural film grain and color shifts characteristic of Super 8 home movies. The scene evokes a sense of quiet disaster and environmental change, offering authentic archival footage for historical or documentary projects.

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: 125595744

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 flood footage from Savage, Minnesota, suited to documentary uses needing rural water rise, storm aftermath, or environmental cutaways.
Period detail: Bare trees, muddy floodwater, and a small outbuilding may show a late-1960s rural or edge-of-town landscape in Savage, Minnesota.
Home-movie behavior: The fixed home-movie viewpoint observes floodwater in woods without staging, emphasizing how a local resident documented slow-moving damage nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flooded woods, bare tree trunks, rippled brown water, reflected branches, a small outbuilding, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, and exposure variation that identify it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, transition, or quiet evidence beat for flooding, seasonal high water, or remembered local disaster.
Historical context: The scene documents water encroaching into wooded land near a small structure, without visible people, vehicles, signs, or emergency response.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or noted, but copyright and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 8mm Minnesota flood footage, Savage Minnesota home movie flood, flooded woods, and rural barn flood cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then Savage or Minnesota 1969 material, then broader flood, river rise, or rural storm aftermath scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm frame showing floodwater among bare trees with a small outbuilding beyond the flooded ground. — Floodwater spreads through a wooded area near a small outbuilding.

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm frame with murky floodwater rising around tree trunks and leafless branches. — Murky water surrounds trees in the flooded woods.

1969 Savage, Minnesota home-movie frame showing flooded tree trunks, bare limbs, and a small pale marker in the water. — Tree trunks and bare branches stand in high floodwater.

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm frame focused on rippled brown floodwater around tree trunks and low bare branches. — Ripples move across floodwater around trees.

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