Baltimore Maryland USA-1943: A Beautiful Day In The Garden

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

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A Beautiful Day In The Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1943, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched garden in Baltimore, Maryland. Lush green lawns frame vibrant flowerbeds bursting with pink, red, yellow, and white blooms, set against a backdrop of mature trees. The footage, with its characteristic film grain and soft focus, offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American domestic life and horticulture. The camera remains steady, allowing the natural beauty of the garden to unfold. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, and nostalgic content.

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: 123131598

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 home-movie garden footage suited for documentary inserts about domestic leisure, horticulture, nature, or mid-century American everyday life.
Period detail: The visible clipped lawn, mature trees, and informal flowerbeds may show a well-kept 1940s domestic or public garden setting, with no people or signage visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, holding on flowers and shade as a casual record of a sunny garden visit or family property.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green lawn, pink and red flowerbeds, white blooms, yellow flowers, mature trees, shrubs, deep shade, and glimpses of distant structures.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, saturated color, visible grain, slight exposure shifts, and dark frame edges that support its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, seasonal transition, memory beat, or establishing insert for garden, family, or Baltimore-adjacent archival sequences.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for planted outdoor spaces and leisure observation in wartime-era American home movies without documenting a specific public event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property-identification concerns separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1943 Baltimore garden 8mm, 1940s flowerbeds home movie, vintage American lawn footage, and color home-movie garden scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1943 Baltimore material, then 1940s garden, flowers, trees, and domestic outdoor footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1943 Baltimore 8mm frame showing a bright garden bed of mixed flowers along a green lawn under trees. — A sunlit flower border lines the lawn beneath shaded trees.

1943 Baltimore garden view with white and pink flowers, green shrubs, trees, and a shaded lawn beyond. — White and pink blooms stand out against the shaded garden greenery.

1943 Baltimore 8mm still showing a shaded garden with bright white flowers, pink beds, trees, and lawn. — A bright cluster of flowers is framed by trees and shadowed lawn.

1943 Baltimore garden frame with a large shrub, white and pink flowerbeds, shaded trees, and green grass. — A shrub and mixed flowerbeds fill the garden view at the end of the clip.

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