Savage Minnesota-1969: Flooded City With Submerged Road And Utility Box

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

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Flooded City With Submerged Road And Utility Box — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a flooded urban landscape in Savage, Minnesota. A wide expanse of water covers a road and surrounding fields, with a submerged utility box visible in the foreground. In the distance, buildings and a hillside form the city skyline under an overcast sky. The footage, viewed through a dark frame, shows the aftermath of a major flood, with no people or moving vehicles in sight, conveying a quiet, desolate mood. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to its archival authenticity.

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: 125595813

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: 1960s Minnesota flood footage suited for documentary inserts, disaster-history segments, infrastructure stories, or archival scene-setting around urban flooding.
Period detail: The clip shows 1969-era roadside utility poles, rail or road corridors, low industrial buildings, and a parked car, with the date and Savage, Minnesota location supported by supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a roadside or vehicle-adjacent position, recording flood conditions plainly without staging, narration, people, or visible emergency response activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater over a road, a partly submerged utility box, utility poles, rail tracks or roadside lines, distant buildings, a hillside, bare trees, and a parked car.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, gate edges, moderate grain, muted color, and slight exposure variation that place the scene clearly within scanned home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, disaster aftermath insert, location transition, or reflective beat between narrated details about flooding and infrastructure disruption.
Historical context: The views show floodwater interrupting ordinary roads and nearby industrial or small-city edges, emphasizing the scale of disruption without showing identifiable residents.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any property or location sensitivities before publication.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Savage Minnesota flood footage, 8mm flooded road, Midwestern flood aftermath, submerged utility box, and vintage urban flooding.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Savage, Minnesota 1969 material, then broader 1960s flood, road closure, and infrastructure aftermath footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Savage, Minnesota home-movie frame showing roadside utility poles, rail or road lines, flooded ground, and a parked car in the distance. — Utility poles and a parked car stand beyond floodwater along a road or rail corridor.

Savage, Minnesota flood footage from 1969 showing a parked car near utility poles, with water and roadside infrastructure visible below. — A parked car sits near utility poles above a flooded roadside area.

Wide 1969 Savage, Minnesota flood view with water over a road, a submerged utility box, bare trees, distant buildings, and a hillside. — Floodwater covers the road as a utility box stands partly submerged in the foreground.

Savage, Minnesota flood scene from 1969 showing water over the roadway, a bare tree, distant low buildings, and a hillside beyond. — A flooded road stretches toward low buildings and a hillside in the distance.

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