Baltimore Maryland USA-1943: Flower Garden In An Arboretum: Home Movie Footage

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

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Flower Garden In An Arboretum: Home Movie Footage — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1943, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched flower garden in Baltimore, Maryland. Lush green trees and manicured shrubs frame vibrant beds of red, pink, yellow, and white flowers in full bloom. The footage, viewed through a classic film gate, shows gentle movement as the camera pans across the meticulously groomed landscape, evoking a sense of peaceful nostalgia and mid-century Americana. The natural light and rich colors highlight the beauty of a well-tended garden from the 1940s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123131495

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 archival requests needing a quiet Baltimore garden or arboretum cutaway for documentary, education, museum, or period atmosphere edits.
Period detail: The clipped lawns, formal flower beds, dense shrubs, and saturated 8mm color may show a manicured mid-century public garden or arboretum setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, observing the planted beds from a distance without staging, narration, or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include shaded trees, trimmed grass, bright red, pink, yellow, and white flower beds, rounded shrubs, and dark film-gate edges.
Film character: The clip has a warm 8mm look with soft focus, visible gate borders, mild exposure variation, and gentle handheld framing across the garden.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a peaceful nature insert, period transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for Baltimore or 1940s garden material.
Historical context: The scene documents ornamental planting and leisure landscape design as seen through home-movie footage, without identifiable people or signage in view.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable signs are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property-use requirements.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1943 8mm Baltimore flower garden footage, 1940s arboretum home movie, vintage garden beds, and mid-century outdoor landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel garden shots, then Baltimore or 1943 outdoor footage, then broader 1940s flowers, parks, and arboretum themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1943 Baltimore home-movie frame showing a sunlit arboretum garden with trees, clipped grass, shrubs, and colorful flower beds. — Sunlit flower beds and trees in a manicured Baltimore garden setting.

1943 Baltimore arboretum footage frame with bright red, pink, yellow, and white flowers among trees and trimmed shrubs. — Bright ornamental planting fills the foreground beneath tall trees.

1943 Baltimore home-movie still showing a shaded garden with clipped lawn, flowering beds, shrubs, and soft 8mm color. — Shaded trees frame rows of flowers and a clipped lawn area.

1943 Baltimore arboretum frame showing a landscaped flower garden with soft-focus 8mm texture and no visible people. — A landscaped garden bed recedes toward shrubs and tall trees.

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