Minnesota-1969: Flooded Highway with Sign, Blue Earth and New Ulm

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

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Flooded Highway with Sign, Blue Earth and New Ulm — Clip Details

SAVAGE MINNESOTA-1969: A flooded roadway submerges a highway sign pointing to Blue Earth and New Ulm, with water covering the pavement and a distant bridge visible. The 8mm home movie footage captures the aftermath of a major flood, showing the extent of the water damage and the quiet, desolate scene. The grainy, vintage quality and muted colors evoke a sense of historical documentation from the late 1960s, offering a rare glimpse into a natural disaster in rural Minnesota.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125595817

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 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 useful for documentary or educational edits about Minnesota flooding, rural road closures, and disaster aftermath.
Period detail: The highway-style directional sign for Blue Earth and New Ulm, muted color stock, and 8mm framing support a late-1960s roadside documentation context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a fixed roadside or vehicle-side position, recording flood depth and blocked travel without staging or visible participants.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater over pavement, a Blue Earth and New Ulm road sign, a distant bridge, roadside posts, low hills, and scattered buildings.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, mild exposure breathing, dark frame edges, and muted color that preserve the texture of a scanned home movie reel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, establishing cutaway, or memory beat for flood aftermath, impassable roads, or rural disruption.
Historical context: The scene visually documents water overtaking a signed roadway near Savage, Minnesota, with quiet infrastructure and landscape details rather than active rescue activity.
Research note: No people are visible, but the readable place names and public road sign should still be reviewed for editorial context, copyright, and location identification needs.
Research search match: Searches such as 1969 Minnesota flood footage, 8mm flooded road sign, Blue Earth New Ulm road closure, and vintage disaster aftermath may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with Savage or Minnesota 1969 material, then with other flood, road closure, bridge, and rural disaster aftermath footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a partially submerged road sign for Blue Earth and New Ulm in floodwater. — A directional road sign stands in floodwater, pointing toward Blue Earth and New Ulm.

1969 Savage, Minnesota frame showing floodwater over a roadway with a bridge, sign, and buildings in the distance. — Floodwater covers the road surface near a distant bridge and roadside sign.

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm frame with floodwater across a roadway, a small bridge, and a partly readable road sign. — A wide flooded roadside view shows water, a bridge, and a sign partly surrounded by water.

1969 Savage, Minnesota frame showing a flooded road approach, distant bridge, and directional sign in muted 8mm color. — The flooded roadway remains still, with a bridge and directional sign visible beyond the water.

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