Savage Minnesota-1969: Flood Waters Surround A Railroad Track Embankment

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

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Flood Waters Surround A Railroad Track Embankment — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a devastating flood in Savage, Minnesota. Widespread floodwaters submerge a railroad track embankment, with trees and utility poles partially underwater. A red classic car sits parked in a grassy yard, contrasting with the surrounding devastation. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows a bleak winter landscape with bare trees and overcast skies, conveying the scale of the disaster. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film adds to its authentic archival feel.

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: 125595942

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 Minnesota flood home-movie footage suited for documentary edits needing brief visual evidence of inundated rail infrastructure and nearby residential surroundings.
Period detail: The frames may show late-1960s rural or suburban Minnesota through 8mm color stock, winter-bare trees, utility poles, a rail embankment, and a red period automobile.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged witness perspective, filmed from behind or near a window as the operator observes floodwater encroaching on familiar ground.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include floodwater, a raised rail curve, bare trees, utility poles, a window frame, a grassy yard, fencing, and a red car.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, and handheld framing that support its physical home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, disaster-context cutaway, or transition between wider flood coverage and personal residential impact.
Historical context: The footage visually places flood conditions beside rail and residential terrain, showing infrastructure and yard space affected by high water without making broader event claims.
Research note: Rights review should consider copyright, any visible people flagged in clip records, and possible property or vehicle identification, with no assumption of likeness or property clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Savage Minnesota flood 8mm, railroad embankment flood home movie, and vintage Minnesota disaster footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Savage Minnesota 1969 material, then broader flood, rail, winter, and home-movie disaster footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Savage, Minnesota flood view through a dark window frame, showing water around a curving rail embankment and leafless trees. — Floodwater surrounds a raised rail curve beneath winter-bare trees.

Savage, Minnesota flood scene from 1969 showing a rail curve partly surrounded by high water, utility poles, bare trees, and a dark window edge. — A flooded rail embankment curves through leafless trees and utility poles.

1969 Savage, Minnesota home-movie frame of floodwater, a raised curving rail bed, bare trees, poles, and a dark interior window frame. — Floodwater reaches around the rail bed while the camera looks out from indoors.

1969 Savage, Minnesota yard view with a red period car parked near bare trees, fencing, a small building, and winter-brown grass. — A red car sits in a yard near bare trees and fencing after the flood views.

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