Baltimore Maryland USA-1943: Winds Blowing Trees and Ivy-Covered House

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Year1943
Decade1940s
LocationBaltimore, Maryland, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1942 Baltimore Maryland

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Winds Blowing Trees and Ivy-Covered House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1943, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban scene in Baltimore, Maryland. The footage opens on a tree with vibrant pink blossoms swaying gently in the wind, its branches moving against a soft sky. The view then shifts to a stately house covered in lush green ivy, with arched windows and manicured bushes, all framed by the natural border of the film's edge. The warm, slightly faded colors and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, peaceful mid-century American moment.

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: 123131176

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 1719 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1942-1943
Reel-level location note: washington dc,baltimore
Date: 1943 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: Baltimore, Maryland, 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 1940s Baltimore home-movie requests needing a quiet suburban exterior, seasonal trees, wind movement, or residential atmosphere.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century residential landscaping, arched house windows, ivy-covered walls, trimmed shrubs, and parked cars glimpsed beyond flowering branches.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on ordinary outdoor details, giving the scene the unstaged observational feel of a family or neighborhood home movie.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pink flowering branches, wind-tossed trees, pale sky, parked cars in the distance, ivy on a house, arched windows, and clipped bushes.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, warm faded color, visible gate edges, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a residential cutaway, seasonal transition, establishing insert, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s domestic sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a calm residential streetscape in Baltimore during the 1940s without visible people, signage, or specific public events.
Research note: No faces, children, or logos are visible, but copyright status and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the intended project.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1943 Baltimore 8mm home movie, 1940s suburban house exterior, flowering trees in wind, ivy-covered residence, and vintage residential cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1943 Baltimore material, and then with other 1940s suburban nature or house exterior scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1943 Baltimore home-movie frame showing pink flowering branches moving in wind with parked cars faintly visible beyond. — Flowering branches fill the frame as wind moves through a suburban streetside tree.

1943 Baltimore view of flowering branches against the sky, with a small glimpse of cars and lawn in the background. — The camera stays on the flowering tree as branches shift across the soft sky.

1943 Baltimore residential exterior showing ivy, arched windows, leafy trees, and manicured bushes in soft 8mm color. — An ivy-covered house exterior appears behind trees and rounded shrubs.

1943 Baltimore home-movie frame of a residential facade partly hidden by ivy, spring foliage, and neatly shaped shrubs. — The final view settles on the ivy-covered residence and its garden planting.

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