Baltimore Maryland USA-1943: Bees Flying Into Pink Azalea Flowers

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

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Bees Flying Into Pink Azalea Flowers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1943, this vintage home movie captures a close-up of vibrant pink azalea blossoms in full bloom. Bees fly through the frame, landing on the flowers to collect pollen, their movements captured with the characteristic grain and color saturation of mid-century amateur footage. The scene is rich with natural detail, showing delicate petals and green foliage against a softly blurred background. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into a quiet spring moment, perfect for historical documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123131764

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 8mm archive requests needing a brief nature cutaway of spring flowers and pollinating insects in a Baltimore home-movie context.
Period detail: The frames show close-up pink azalea blossoms on 8mm color film; the 1943 Baltimore setting is supported by supplied clip metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the quiet observational quality of an amateur home movie, holding close on garden blossoms as bees move through the flowers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dense pink azalea petals, green leaves, thin flower stems, small bees, soft garden background, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries saturated mid-century color, visible film grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing typical of scanned 8mm material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a spring insert, garden cutaway, nature transition, or reflective memory beat within a 1940s domestic or regional sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers a small-scale view of ornamental garden life in wartime-era home-movie footage without showing people, buildings, or civic landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright status and any broader reel context should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1943 8mm Baltimore garden footage, pink azalea blossoms, bees pollinating flowers, or vintage home-movie spring nature cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1943 Baltimore material, then with garden, flower, bee, and spring home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close-up of pink azalea flowers in 1943 Baltimore 8mm home-movie footage, with green foliage and dark frame edges visible. — Pink azalea blossoms fill a close 8mm frame with saturated color and soft focus.

A soft 8mm close-up shows pink azalea blossoms and green leaves, with the Baltimore 1943 context supplied by metadata. — Soft-focus azalea blossoms and foliage appear within dark film-frame edges.

Pink azalea blossoms and foliage fill the frame, with a small bee-like insect visible among the petals in the 1943 Baltimore clip. — A small insect appears among dense pink azalea flowers and green leaves.

Close 8mm view of pink azalea blossoms, stems, and green foliage from the supplied 1943 Baltimore home-movie clip. — Azalea petals, stems, and foliage remain tightly framed at the end of the clip.

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