Savage Minnesota-1969: Flooded Farm With Grain Silos And Utility Poles

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

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Flooded Farm With Grain Silos And Utility Poles — Clip Details

A flooded rural landscape in Savage, Minnesota, captured on 8mm film in 1969. The clip shows rising water submerging a farmyard, with three large metal grain silos partially underwater and utility poles standing in the flood. Bare trees and a small barn are also surrounded by water, reflecting a quiet, somber mood. The footage has a grainy, vintage quality with muted colors, typical of home movies from the era. This archival material offers a poignant look at a natural disaster in a midwestern farming community.

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: 125595831

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s Midwest flood coverage, rural disaster context, or editorial sequences needing archival farm inundation footage.
Period detail: The metal grain silos, utility poles, bare trees, and muted 8mm color support a late-1960s rural Minnesota setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the flooded farmstead from a roadside or embankment, giving the scene an unstaged local witness perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, grain silos, utility poles, bare trees, grass verge, a small barn or shed, and distant low buildings.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, mild exposure variation, rounded frame edges, and a handheld home-movie feel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a somber cutaway, establishing insert, or transition within flood, farming, weather, or regional history sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents floodwater encroaching on agricultural land and infrastructure without identifying a specific cause or named event.
Research note: No people, faces, or logos are visible, but copyright, location, and property-context review should still be handled separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Savage Minnesota flood footage, 8mm flooded farm, grain silos underwater, and Midwest rural flood home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Savage or Minnesota 1969 footage, then broader rural flooding and farm infrastructure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm frame showing floodwater around grain silos, utility poles, bare trees, and roadside grass. — Floodwater surrounds grain silos and utility poles near a rural farmstead.

Flooded farm landscape in Savage, Minnesota, with three metal grain silos, utility poles, bare trees, and water covering low ground. — Standing water covers the farmyard around silos and nearby trees.

Savage, Minnesota flood scene with silos partly surrounded by water, bare trees, a utility pole, and a grassy edge in the foreground. — A roadside view frames the inundated farm structures and surrounding floodwater.

1969 Savage, Minnesota frame looking across floodwater toward bare trees, utility poles, and a distant wooded edge. — The view shifts across open floodwater toward trees and utility poles.

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