Savage Minnesota-1969: Park Flooded with Submerged Trees and Fence

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

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Park Flooded with Submerged Trees and Fence — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a severe flood in Savage, Minnesota. The clip shows multiple feet of murky water submerging a park, with leafless trees standing in the floodwaters and their reflections visible on the surface. A chain-link fence is partially submerged in the foreground, and a small building is visible in the distance. The footage has a grainy, nostalgic quality with muted colors, typical of Super 8 home movies from the era. This archival clip offers a powerful look at a natural disaster from a personal, eye-level perspective.

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: 125595767

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

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: 1969 8mm home-movie footage for projects needing a Midwestern flood scene, submerged park cutaway, or archival visual evidence of natural-disaster aftermath.
Period detail: The leafless trees, simple chain-link fencing, small park structures, and muted 8mm color may show a late-1960s public park landscape in Savage, Minnesota.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged observer's view, looking across floodwater from a fixed or lightly handheld position rather than a news or official survey angle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include high floodwater, bare trees, reflected trunks, a partially submerged chain-link fence, utility poles, distant small buildings, and park-like grounds.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm archive texture through soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, muted color, and the contact-sheet framing of a short home-movie shot.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a disaster aftermath insert, a regional-history cutaway, a transition into flood recovery material, or a quiet memory beat.
Historical context: The view documents floodwater occupying a park or open public area, showing how ordinary recreational space could be visually transformed by severe water levels.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Savage Minnesota flood footage, 8mm flooded park, submerged trees and fence, vintage home movie floodwater, and Midwest flood aftermath.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Savage or Minnesota 1969 material, then broader archival footage of floods, parks, rivers, or storm aftermath.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 8mm view from Savage, Minnesota showing floodwater around leafless park trees, a submerged fence line, and a distant small building. — Floodwater surrounds bare trees and fencing in a park-like area.

Savage, Minnesota flood footage from 1969 showing still water across a park, with bare trees, fence posts, and a small building in the background. — Leafless trees stand in floodwater with a fence partly below the waterline.

1969 Savage, Minnesota home-movie frame showing a flooded park area, bare trees reflected in the water, fencing, and a small structure across the water. — A small structure and bare trees are seen beyond broad floodwater.

Savage, Minnesota 1969 flood scene with several bare trees standing in water, partially submerged fencing, and a small park building or structure nearby. — Floodwater reflects trees and surrounds fencing near a small park structure.

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