Savage Minnesota-1969: A Huge River Crashes Over The Dam With Great Speed

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

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A Huge River Crashes Over The Dam With Great Speed — Clip Details

SAVAGE MINNESOTA-1969: A powerful river rushes over a dam with turbulent white water, captured on vintage 8mm film. The scene shows a concrete spillway, a metal railing, and a red utility box in the foreground, with a large arched bridge spanning the river in the background. A yellow sign marked '200' is visible on the dam's edge. The footage, shot from a fixed perspective, displays the characteristic grain and color palette of 1960s home movies, conveying a sense of raw natural force and industrial infrastructure. This archival clip offers authentic, unfiltered footage of a river in flood, ideal 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: 125595989

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: Useful for 1960s documentary or educational edits needing real 8mm footage of river infrastructure, dam overflow, and Midwestern water movement.
Period detail: The clip shows period home-movie color, a concrete spillway, metal railings, utility structures, and an arched bridge that may show late-1960s regional infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The fixed visitor-like viewpoint records the force of the water from a public-facing vantage without staging, narration, or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete dam spillway, turbulent white water, metal railing, red utility box, arched bridge, riverbank, tower structure, and yellow 200 sign.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and muted color that support its physical home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, environmental insert, or memory beat for water control, flooding, or industrial river settings.
Historical context: The footage visually connects natural river force with built infrastructure in Savage, Minnesota, without documenting a specific named flood or event.
Research note: No people or readable brands are apparent, but copyright, location, bridge, dam, and property considerations should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1969 8mm dam footage, Minnesota river spillway, Savage Minnesota home movie, or vintage turbulent water infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Savage Minnesota 1969 material, then broader 1960s dam, river, bridge, and flood-control footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm frame showing river water pouring over a concrete dam with railing, red utility box, and arched bridge in the background. — River water rushes over the concrete dam below an arched bridge.

1969 Savage, Minnesota view of turbulent water at the dam edge, with a foreground railing, yellow 200 sign, red utility box, and arched bridge. — Turbulent water breaks at the dam edge near the yellow 200 sign.

1969 Savage, Minnesota 8mm frame with foaming water at a dam, a red utility box in front, metal railing, bridge spans, and riverbank structures. — Foaming river water fills the lower right of the dam view.

1969 Savage, Minnesota home-movie frame showing a fixed view of the dam spillway, heavy white water, foreground railing, red utility box, and bridge. — A fixed home-movie view holds on the dam and heavy white water.

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