Savage Minnesota-1969: Flooded Farmland With Grain Silos And Submerged Road

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

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Flooded Farmland With Grain Silos And Submerged Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic flood in Savage, Minnesota. The footage shows a rural road partially submerged by murky water, with large grain silos and bare trees standing in the flooded landscape. A lone car drives along the dry edge of the road, emphasizing the scale of the inundation. The scene is framed by the characteristic grain and color palette of Super 8 film, evoking a strong sense of Americana and historical documentation. This archival clip offers a powerful glimpse into a natural disaster from the late 1960s.

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: 125595833

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: Useful for 1960s documentary edits needing rural Minnesota flood footage, submerged roads, farm infrastructure, or home-movie evidence of weather damage.
Period detail: The 8mm footage may show late-1960s rural road conditions, grain storage structures, utility poles, bare trees, and floodwater across low farmland.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a roadside position, giving the scene the unstaged immediacy of a local resident documenting flood conditions.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include murky floodwater, a narrow road shoulder, grain silos, utility poles, bare trees, distant farm structures, and wet roadside grass.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as an insert, cutaway, transition, or memory beat for flooding, rural infrastructure, climate, agriculture, or regional history sequences.
Historical context: The clip visually places floodwater beside working rural infrastructure, suggesting how high water reached roads, tree lines, and farm-adjacent land.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location identification should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1969 Savage Minnesota flood, 8mm flooded farmland, rural road underwater, grain silos flood, and vintage home movie flood may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Savage or Minnesota 1969 footage, then broader 1960s flood, rural road, farmland, and disaster-response scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm frame showing floodwater beside a rural road, with grain silos, utility poles, and bare trees beyond. — Flooded farmland and grain silos line a partially submerged rural road.

1969 Savage, Minnesota frame showing floodwater along a rural road, with bare trees, a utility pole, and distant farm-adjacent structures. — High water reaches the roadside and tree line in a rural flood scene.

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm frame of floodwater along a rural road, with bare trees, utility poles, and a distant structure visible. — Roadside floodwater spreads across low land near bare trees and utility poles.

1969 Savage, Minnesota frame showing broad floodwater across low farmland or roadside land, bordered by bare trees and utility poles. — A wide flooded area stretches toward bare trees and utility poles.

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