Baltimore Maryland USA-1943: A Bee On Red Flowering Plants

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

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A Bee On Red Flowering Plants — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1943 captures a bee pollinating vibrant red and pink flowering plants in Baltimore, Maryland. The footage shows a dense cluster of blossoms with green leaves, filmed with the characteristic grain and warm color palette of mid-century amateur film. The camera remains steady, focusing on the natural interaction between the bee and the flowers, offering a nostalgic glimpse into a quiet moment of nature. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical 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: 123131779

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 home-movie requests needing a brief nature cutaway of bees among red and pink flowering plants in Baltimore, Maryland.
Period detail: The frames show no built environment or dated objects, so the 1943 period context comes from clip metadata rather than visible historical clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an amateur naturalist moment, with the camera held close on dense blossoms and a small bee moving through the flowers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red and pink blossoms, green leaves, thin stems, a small dark bee, shallow focus, heavy shadows, and rounded 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage has saturated warm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and the framed cadence of scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short floral insert, seasonal transition, pollination cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s sequence.
Historical context: The scene records garden or flowering shrub life without people, signage, architecture, or identifiable property visible in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, and any location claims should still be checked against the collection record.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1943 Baltimore 8mm flowers, bee pollination home movie, red blossoms archival footage, and 1940s amateur nature film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Baltimore or 1943 material, then broader garden, flowers, bees, spring, or pollination footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1943 Baltimore 8mm frame showing dense pink and red flowering plants with a small bee near the blossoms. — A bee appears among soft-focused pink and red blossoms.

Close 8mm view of pink flowering plants in Baltimore, with a small bee visible near the clustered blossoms. — Pink blossoms and leaves surround a small bee in the flower cluster.

1943 8mm frame of dense red and pink flowering plants, with leaves and shadowed branches filling the view. — Dense flowering plants create a red and pink garden texture.

Baltimore home-movie frame from 1943 showing red and pink blossoms packed across the 8mm frame. — Red and pink blossoms fill the final sampled frame.

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