Baltimore Maryland USA-1943: Blooming Azaleas and Tulips in a Sunlit Garden

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

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Blooming Azaleas and Tulips in a Sunlit Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1943, this vintage home movie captures vibrant pink azaleas blooming in a sun-drenched garden. The footage transitions to a wider view of a colorful flowerbed filled with yellow and red tulips, framed by tree branches. Sunlight filters through the leaves, casting dappled shadows on the grass. The warm, slightly faded colors and natural film grain evoke a nostalgic, mid-century American garden scene. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about 1940s domestic life.

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: 123131837

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 8mm home-movie garden footage for productions needing a quiet spring cutaway, domestic memory beat, or period nature insert from Baltimore, Maryland.
Period detail: The frames show ornamental azaleas and tulips in bright color, with the mid-century clue coming from the 1943 home-movie metadata rather than visible clothing, cars, or architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-garden viewpoint, lingering on blossoms and a flowerbed as a family camera operator records seasonal color rather than a formal event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pink azalea blossoms, yellow and red tulips, leafy shrubs, tree branches, green lawn, dappled sunlight, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries warm 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a spring insert, domestic-life transition, botanical cutaway, or reflective memory beat between family or neighborhood scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents a cultivated American garden scene in 1943, showing seasonal flowers and leisure-time looking without visible people or public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or garden-location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1940s 8mm garden flowers, 1943 Baltimore spring blossoms, vintage home movie tulips, azaleas in bloom, and sunlit lawn cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other 1943 Baltimore home movies, then broader 1940s garden, spring, flowers, and domestic-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close view of pink azaleas in bloom, from 1943 8mm home-movie footage identified as Baltimore, Maryland. — Pink azalea blossoms recorded in close view with soft color and film grain.

A bright garden bed of yellow and red tulips beneath branches in 1943 Baltimore home-movie footage. — Yellow and red tulips grow in a sunny garden bed beyond a shaded lawn.

Wider view of a spring flowerbed with tulips and lawn, from 1943 8mm footage identified as Baltimore, Maryland. — The camera holds on a colorful tulip bed framed by branches and lawn shadows.

Sunlit tulips and a green lawn appear in a soft 8mm home-movie frame from 1943 Baltimore metadata. — A colorful flowerbed remains in view as sunlight falls across the grass.

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