Savage Minnesota-1969: Country Road Through Flooded Farmland

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

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Country Road Through Flooded Farmland — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic flood in Savage, Minnesota. The footage shows extensive water covering roads and fields, with submerged trees and a partially underwater bridge visible. In the distance, a grain elevator and buildings stand above the floodwaters. The scene is viewed from an elevated position, with bare trees in the foreground, suggesting late winter or early spring. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain and color fading, offering authentic archival footage of a natural disaster.

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: 125595930

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: 1969 8mm home-movie flood footage suited for documentary or educational edits about Midwestern flooding, infrastructure disruption, and community memory.
Period detail: The scene may show late-winter or early-spring 1960s rural Minnesota, with bare trees, utility poles, a metal truss bridge, and distant grain-elevator-like structures above floodwater.
Home-movie behavior: The elevated, handheld view gives an unstaged resident or visitor perspective on floodwaters covering roads, fields, trees, and a bridge below.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include broad floodwater, leafless trees, utility poles, a roadway, a metal truss bridge, distant industrial or farm buildings, and small people near the road.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, muted color, gate edges, slight handheld movement, and visible film grain that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, transition, or evidentiary cutaway for a sequence on floods, river towns, or local disaster memory.
Historical context: The clip visually documents floodwater encroaching on transportation routes and low-lying land without proving a specific flood event beyond the supplied Savage, Minnesota 1969 metadata.
Research note: People appear small in the distance, so likeness review may still be needed; copyright, location, and any property issues should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1969 Minnesota flood 8mm footage, Savage Minnesota flood home movie, submerged bridge archival footage, and Midwestern flood roads.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Savage or Minnesota 1969 material, and then broader 1960s flood, river, and infrastructure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Savage, Minnesota flood scene with water covering low land, bare trees in front, and distant buildings above the waterline. — Floodwater spreads through low-lying land below an elevated vantage point.

A handheld 8mm view of floodwater around trees and utility poles in Savage, Minnesota, with distant buildings on higher ground. — Floodwater surrounds trees and poles while buildings remain visible in the distance.

Savage, Minnesota floodwater covers land near a metal truss bridge, with bare trees and small distant people beside a road. — A truss bridge and road sit amid high water, with small figures near the foreground.

1969 8mm frame from Savage, Minnesota showing a truss bridge partly surrounded by floodwater, with trees and small people near the road. — Floodwater reaches around a bridge and roadside trees as two small figures stand below.

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