Savage Minnesota-1969: Severe Flooding in Savage, Minnesota

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

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Severe Flooding in Savage, Minnesota — Clip Details

SAVAGE MINNESOTA-1969: This 8mm home movie footage captures severe flooding in a rural Minnesota community, with houses partially submerged in murky water. The grainy, color-bleached film shows a white house and a smaller cabin surrounded by floodwaters, with bare trees lining the background. Shot from a moving vehicle, the perspective shifts across the inundated landscape, conveying the scale of the disaster. The footage offers a raw, archival glimpse into a natural disaster from the late 1960s, with authentic film grain and color degradation typical of vintage Super 8 home movies.

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: 125595886

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: Late-1960s Minnesota flood footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial projects needing rural disaster aftermath from original 8mm home movies.
Period detail: The bare trees, simple lakeside or riverside structures, and faded color 8mm stock support the supplied 1969 rural Minnesota setting without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged roadside viewpoint, likely filmed from a moving vehicle as the camera tracks past floodwater and isolated buildings.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include broad muddy floodwater, a partly surrounded cabin or house, bare trees, a pale grassy bank, soft focus, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm grain, muted color, exposure variation, gate edges, and handheld motion that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat illustrating flood impact on rural homes and river-adjacent land.
Historical context: The images show high water reaching structures near a wooded bank, offering visual context for how flooding affected small communities and residential edges.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are visible or audible in the supplied metadata, but copyright and any property-related concerns still require separate review.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1969 Minnesota flood 8mm footage, Savage MN flooding home movie, rural river flood houses, and vintage disaster aftermath.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then other Savage or Minnesota 1969 material, then broader rural flood and river-disaster footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm frame showing floodwater across a rural bank with a small building backed by leafless trees. — Floodwater surrounds a small building along a wooded bank.

1969 Savage, Minnesota flood scene with a small riverside or lakeside building partly surrounded by high water and winter-bare trees. — A rural structure stands beyond a broad expanse of floodwater.

1969 Savage, Minnesota home-movie frame showing murky floodwater in front of a small house or cabin near a wooded shoreline. — High water fills the foreground below a small riverside structure.

Motion-blurred 1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm frame with floodwater, a small building, and bare trees seen from a moving roadside viewpoint. — A blurred pass by a flooded rural building and wooded bank.

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