Skyline Drive Virginia USA-1943: Bright Colored Tree Blowing In The Wind

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Year1943
Decade1940s
LocationSkyline Drive, Virginia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1943 Skyline Drive Virginia

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Bright Colored Tree Blowing In The Wind — Clip Details

A vibrant 8mm home movie clip from 1943 captures a bright pink flowering tree swaying in a gentle breeze at Skyline Drive, Virginia. The tree's dense blossoms create a soft, textured canopy against a clear blue sky, with a dark evergreen tree visible in the background. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the footage displays natural grain, subtle color shifts, and a soft focus characteristic of mid-century home movies. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic spring day in a suburban or park setting, with the tree's movement suggesting a light wind. This authentic archival footage is ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific visual storytelling.

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: 123131860

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1943 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Skyline Drive, Virginia, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary or editorial requests needing quiet color home-movie nature footage from Skyline Drive, Virginia.
Period detail: The visible clues are mostly the 8mm color home-movie look and landscaped outdoor setting, with no identifiable buildings or landmarks in frame.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a home-movie camera lingering on a flowering tree moving in the wind.
What appears in frame: A pink flowering tree, green lawn, blue sky, dark evergreen shapes, distant foliage, and soft shadows are visible across the four frames.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, and contact-frame edges that add physical-film context.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a spring cutaway, gentle transition, memory beat, or nature insert within a period sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a mid-century home-movie interest in seasonal landscape details rather than a documented public event.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private-property identifiers are visible, but copyright and location/property status should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s 8mm flowering tree, Skyline Drive Virginia home movie, spring blossoms, and vintage nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1943 Skyline Drive material, then similar 1940s spring landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1943 Skyline Drive home-movie frame showing a pink flowering tree, green grass, blue sky, and dark evergreen foliage behind it. — A flowering tree fills the frame as its pink branches move in the breeze.

Skyline Drive, Virginia frame with dense pink blossoms, a green lawn, blue sky, and dark tree shapes in the background. — The blossoms form a soft canopy against the sky and surrounding greenery.

1943 8mm frame showing a pink flowering tree in a grassy Skyline Drive setting, with faint distant foliage and sky behind it. — A closer view of the flowering tree shows branches spreading over the lawn.

Skyline Drive home-movie frame of a pink flowering tree moving in wind over green grass, with blue sky and darker trees behind. — The tree remains centered as the breeze shifts its blossom-covered branches.

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