Savage Minnesota-1969: Red Car Drives By Flooded Road On A Clear Day

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

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Red Car Drives By Flooded Road On A Clear Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a flooded landscape in Savage, Minnesota. Bare trees stand submerged in murky water, their branches silhouetted against a gray sky. A dirt road runs alongside the flood, with a red vehicle parked near a small structure in the distance. The scene conveys a quiet, somber mood of nature's impact on a rural area, with visible film grain and color fading characteristic of Super 8 footage from the era. This archival clip offers authentic, nostalgic footage for historical or documentary projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125595749

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: Useful for 1960s documentary edits needing rural Minnesota flood footage, road access disruption, or environmental cutaways from authentic 8mm home-movie material.
Period detail: The 1969 home-movie view shows a gravel road, bare roadside trees, submerged trunks, and a small red vehicle, with few modern visual markers beyond the period film stock.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the flooded roadside from a casual, unstaged home-movie distance, emphasizing what a local traveler or resident noticed rather than a planned news scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include muddy floodwater, leafless trees, a gravel road, roadside stones, a red vehicle, a small structure, distant brush, and dark frame edges from the scan.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for flooding, rural road conditions, seasonal thaw, or small-town environmental disruption.
Historical context: The clip documents a quiet flooded landscape near Savage, Minnesota, without visible people, signs, or official response activity in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property implications should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm Minnesota flood footage, Savage Minnesota flooded road, vintage home movie rural flooding, and red car by floodwater.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Savage or 1969 Minnesota material, then broader home-movie scenes of floods, roads, and weather impacts.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 8mm view from Savage, Minnesota, showing muddy floodwater around leafless roadside trees. — Bare trees stand in muddy floodwater along the roadside.

Flooded trees in Savage, Minnesota, seen on 1969 8mm film with soft grain and dark scan edges. — High water reaches the trunks of leafless trees.

1969 Savage, Minnesota roadside scene with floodwater, bare trees, stones, and a distant red vehicle. — A gravel road borders the flooded area, with a red vehicle in the distance.

Savage, Minnesota 1969 home-movie frame showing a gravel road beside floodwater and a distant red vehicle. — The flooded roadside continues along the gravel road toward a red vehicle.

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