Baltimore Maryland USA-1943: Colorful Footage Of A Garden With Some Fresh

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

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Colorful Footage Of A Garden With Some Fresh — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1943, this vintage home movie captures a vibrant garden in Baltimore, Maryland. Sun-drenched flower beds burst with red, pink, yellow, and white blooms arranged along a winding path. Lush green grass and mature trees frame the scene, with dappled sunlight filtering through the foliage. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American garden design and leisure. The view is framed by dark edges, suggesting it was filmed through a window or doorway.

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: 123131503

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 brief color 8mm garden, landscaping, or domestic leisure cutaways from Baltimore-area home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century formal garden with manicured lawn, mature trees, and bright flower beds, though no date-specific architecture or signage is visible.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the quiet visitor-shot quality of someone pausing to record a colorful garden display rather than a staged scene or public event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green lawn, shaded trees, dense flower beds, red and pink blooms, pale yellow flowers, a curving planted border, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm image has saturated color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and dark rounded frame edges that add physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, seasonal transition, memory beat, or establishing cutaway for gardens, leisure, spring color, or home-movie atmosphere.
Historical context: The scene offers a small visual record of ornamental garden display and outdoor leisure in color home-movie footage without showing people, signage, or identifiable buildings.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1940s Baltimore garden 8mm, vintage color flower beds, home movie landscaped park, and mid-century garden footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1943 Baltimore material, and then with garden, flowers, parks, or domestic leisure themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Color 8mm frame from the 1943 Baltimore home movie showing sunlit flower beds, green lawn, and mature trees in a garden. — Sunlit flower beds curve through a shaded garden lawn.

Color 8mm view of a Baltimore garden with layered flower beds, shaded grass, and dark film-frame borders. — Layered flower beds sit between shaded grass and trees.

1943 Baltimore home-movie frame showing a shaded lawn bordered by colorful flower beds and mature garden trees. — A shaded lawn borders bright plantings in the garden.

Color 8mm garden frame with pale yellow foreground flowers, pink blooms, green lawn, and trees in Baltimore metadata context. — Pale yellow flowers fill the foreground of the garden view.

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