Baltimore Maryland USA-1943: Dad And Mom On Knees Plugging In TV With Kids Playing Outside

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

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Dad And Mom On Knees Plugging In TV With Kids Playing... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1943, this vintage home movie captures a quiet domestic moment in Baltimore, Maryland. A man and woman are seen near a television set, with the woman on her knees plugging in the device while children play nearby. The footage shows a stone house with ivy-covered walls and a sloped roof, viewed through a window frame. The warm, slightly faded colors and soft focus are characteristic of mid-century home movies, evoking a nostalgic, everyday life scene from the 1940s.

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: 123131194

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 residential exterior requests, domestic establishing shots, or archival cutaways of middle-class neighborhood life.
Period detail: The stone facade, slate-like roof, divided windows, ivy, and soft 8mm color may show a mid-20th-century residential setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a quiet visitor-or-family vantage point, looking out through a dark window frame toward nearby homes and garden plantings.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include stone houses, ivy-covered walls, steep roofs, divided windows, shrubs, bare trees, lawn, and dark window-frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries warm faded color, soft focus, mild grain, and uneven handheld framing typical of scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a residential establishing insert, a memory transition, or a quiet cutaway between family-life scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests a settled Baltimore residential area, but the frames do not show people, cars, signage, or specific landmarks.
Research note: No faces, children, or logos are visible, but exterior property identification and copyright status still require normal review.
Research search match: Searches such as 1940s Baltimore home movie, 8mm residential exterior, ivy stone house, and wartime-era neighborhood cutaway may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other frames from the same reel, then Baltimore 1943 exteriors, then 1940s home and neighborhood footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1943 Baltimore home-movie frame showing ivy-covered stone residences, shrubs, lawn, and dark foreground window framing. — Stone residential buildings and garden shrubs viewed from behind a dark window frame.

1943 Baltimore exterior view of a steep-roofed stone house with ivy, bare trees, shrubs, and dark foreground framing. — A stone house with a steep roof and ivy is framed by dark vertical window edges.

1943 Baltimore home-movie view of a stone residence, tall divided windows, dense shrubs, and a dark window-frame border. — The camera looks toward a stone residence with tall windows and dense garden planting.

1943 Baltimore frame showing an ivy-covered stone house, roofline, shrubs, lawn, and dark foreground window framing. — Ivy and shrubs partly obscure a stone house seen from a nearby interior viewpoint.

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