Savage Minnesota-1969: Flooded Farmland And Submerged Barns

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

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Flooded Farmland And Submerged Barns — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a flooded rural landscape in Savage, Minnesota. The footage shows submerged farmland with barns and silos partially underwater, viewed from a moving vehicle. A small chalkboard sign reading 'ST. PETER' appears in one frame, suggesting a nearby town. The scenes convey a sense of natural disaster and community impact, with muted colors and grainy texture characteristic of Super 8 footage from the era. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse into a significant flood event in the Midwest.

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: 125595871

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 archival requests needing Midwest flood aftermath, rural Minnesota disaster context, or home-movie views of water over roads and farmland.
Period detail: The 8mm color look, handwritten chalkboard title card, winter-bare trees, and period roadside view support the supplied 1969 home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged traveler perspective, with the camera observing floodwater and bystanders from a roadside or moving-vehicle vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a chalkboard reading ST. PETER, floodwater, bare trees, a roadway, distant farm or utility structures, roadside posts, and small groups of people.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm focus, visible grain, gate edges, muted color, and uneven exposure that give the clip a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief disaster-history insert, location title beat, road-trip transition, or cutaway for flood impact in a Midwest sequence.
Historical context: The frames visually document high water near rural roads and open land, suggesting local disruption without identifying a specific flood event beyond the supplied metadata.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and any property questions should be checked separately before use.
Research search match: Researcher matches include 1969 Minnesota flood home movie, Savage Minnesota flooded farmland, 8mm Midwest flood footage, and St. Peter chalkboard title card.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Savage or Minnesota 1969 material, then with broader Midwest flood and rural disaster scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm frame of a small chalkboard title card reading ST. PETER, used as a home-movie location marker. — Handwritten ST. PETER chalkboard title card fills the frame.

Second 8mm view of the handwritten ST. PETER chalkboard title card against a dark background. — The ST. PETER title card appears again in a slightly different frame position.

1969 Minnesota home-movie view of floodwater near a roadside, bare trees, and distant people standing at the water's edge. — Floodwater covers low ground near a road while several people stand in the distance.

1969 Minnesota 8mm frame showing floodwater across a low rural area, with bare trees, roadside markers, and small distant figures. — A roadside view looks across floodwater and bare trees toward distant land and structures.

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