Savage Minnesota-1969: A Huge Dam In Water With The Rocks Shows The Greatness Of

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

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A Huge Dam In Water With The Rocks Shows The Greatness Of — Clip Details

SAVAGE MINNESOTA-1969: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a dramatic view of a massive dam with turbulent water cascading over its spillway. A concrete arch bridge spans the river in the background under an overcast sky, with power lines and a distant church steeple visible. The footage, shot from a fixed position, shows a red utility box and metal railing in the foreground, conveying the industrial scale of the structure. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage 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: 125595984

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: 1969 8mm footage helps documentary or museum edits needing an industrial river spillway or dam view from a Midwestern home-movie reel.
Period detail: The chalkboard slate reads "St. Anthony Falls April 17 1969," while the frames show a concrete bridge, utility poles, railings and a red riverside box.
Home-movie behavior: The clip holds a visitor-shot view across turbulent water, valuing the ordinary act of filming a civic landmark from a public overlook.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a handwritten slate, foaming spillway water, concrete arch bridge, metal railing, lamp post, power towers, distant steeple and red utility box.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft grain, muted cool color, slight gate edges and steady fixed framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief industrial cutaway, place-setting insert, river transition or memory beat before related Minnesota infrastructure footage.
Historical context: The scene visually records public infrastructure, river control and urban power corridors without establishing a specific historical event beyond the dated slate.
Research note: No people, faces, logos or audible music are evident, but location identity and property or municipal permissions should still be reviewed separately from copyright.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1969 8mm St. Anthony Falls dam, Minnesota spillway home movie, vintage river infrastructure footage and concrete arch bridge over turbulent water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Minnesota or St. Anthony Falls footage from 1969, then broader dam, river and bridge infrastructure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 home-movie slate reading St. Anthony Falls, April 17, 1969, held beside the film frame edge. — A chalkboard title card identifies St. Anthony Falls and the date April 17, 1969.

A 1969 8mm view shows turbulent water at St. Anthony Falls with a concrete bridge, railing and power structures in the background. — Turbulent water moves across the spillway beneath a concrete arch bridge.

The fixed 8mm frame looks across St. Anthony Falls toward a concrete bridge, churning water, utility lines and a red riverside box. — A wide fixed view frames the spillway, bridge arches and foreground railing.

A final 1969 8mm frame holds on the St. Anthony Falls spillway with turbulent water, a bridge, railings and power towers. — The shot remains fixed as water churns below the bridge and power towers.

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