Baltimore Maryland USA-1943: White Dogwood Flower and Stone Bench in Garden

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

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White Dogwood Flower and Stone Bench in Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1943, this vintage home movie captures a serene garden scene in Baltimore, Maryland. The clip opens with a close-up of a large white dogwood flower, its delicate petals and green center sharply detailed against dark foliage. The view then pulls back to reveal a sun-dappled park with a stone bench nestled among vibrant red and yellow flower beds, a manicured lawn, and a winding path. Lush green trees and a low hedge frame the background, evoking a peaceful, nostalgic mid-century American garden. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight color fading, characteristic of archival Super 8 home movies.

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: 123131395

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: 1940s Baltimore 8mm home-movie garden footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial uses needing a quiet American park or flower-bed cutaway.
Period detail: The manicured flower beds, stone bench, winding path, and soft color 8mm look may show a mid-century public or formal garden setting in Baltimore.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers on a dogwood blossom and then observes the landscaped beds from a visitor's quiet, unstaged viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white dogwood flower, dark foliage, red and yellow flower beds, a pale path, a stone bench, lawn, hedges, and leafy trees.
Film character: The clip has 8mm grain, soft focus shifts, slight fading, dark frame edges, and gentle handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm insert, seasonal transition, garden cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a 1940s Baltimore sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents ornamental planting and leisure landscape design without visible people, signage, vehicles, or identifiable institutions in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any property or location permissions separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1940s Baltimore garden 8mm, white dogwood flower home movie, vintage park bench flower beds, and Maryland garden cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Baltimore or 1943 material, then related 1940s garden, park, flower, or seasonal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close-up of a white dogwood blossom in 1943 Baltimore home-movie garden footage, with dark leaves behind it. — White dogwood blossom fills the frame against shaded foliage.

Baltimore garden view with a pale path, red and yellow flower beds, a stone bench, lawn, hedges, and trees in 1943 8mm footage. — Flower beds and a stone bench appear beyond a pale garden path.

1943 Baltimore garden footage showing red and yellow flower beds, a lawn, a curving path, trees, hedges, and a stone bench. — A landscaped garden bed and bench are framed by lawn and trees.

A 1943 Baltimore garden scene holds on flower beds, clipped greenery, a stone bench, and tall trees in soft 8mm color. — The camera holds on the garden beds, bench, path, and surrounding trees.

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