Savage Minnesota-1969: Farm Buildings Submerged in Floodwaters

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

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Farm Buildings Submerged in Floodwaters — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a devastating flood in Savage, Minnesota. Viewed from a moving vehicle, the footage shows submerged farm buildings, including a white house and barn, surrounded by murky floodwaters. Bare trees line the flooded landscape under an overcast sky, with a road visible in the foreground. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 footage conveys the somber mood of the disaster, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 125595883

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 to documentary inserts, regional history programs, disaster retrospectives, and environmental or infrastructure research edits.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1960s rural roadside flood conditions, with simple farm buildings, bare trees, and a moving-car viewpoint consistent with home-movie documentation.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged observer quality, filmed from a passing vehicle as floodwater surrounds homes and outbuildings near the road.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a flooded field, submerged house, low farm structures, bare trees, roadside edge, utility or window posts, distant hills, and murky standing water.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and handheld vehicle movement that give it authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short disaster cutaway, regional establishing insert, road-travel transition, or memory beat within a flood sequence.
Historical context: The visuals document floodwater reaching rural buildings and roadsides, offering social context for how high water affected homes and farm structures.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or indicated, but exterior buildings and location claims should still be reviewed for copyright, property, and context use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Savage Minnesota flood 8mm, rural flooded houses home movie, submerged farm buildings, and roadside flood footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Savage or Minnesota 1969 flood material, then broader rural flooding and disaster aftermath footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Savage, Minnesota home-movie frame showing floodwater around rural buildings, bare trees, and a road edge in the foreground. — Flooded rural buildings seen from a moving roadside viewpoint.

1969 Savage, Minnesota frame with a white house, arched outbuilding, bare trees, and still floodwater beyond the road. — White house and outbuilding partly surrounded by high water.

1969 Savage, Minnesota home-movie still showing floodwater around a house, shed-like structure, and arched building near bare trees. — Roadside view of farm structures surrounded by floodwater.

1969 Savage, Minnesota frame showing a white house, collapsed or low outbuilding, bare trees, and reflective floodwater beside the road. — Floodwater reaches rural buildings near a roadside in Savage, Minnesota.

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