Washington DC USA-1943: A Field Full Of Tall Leaves And Beautiful Pink Lotus Flowers

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Year1943
Decade1940s
LocationWashington, District Of Columbia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Field Full Of Tall Leaves And Beautiful Pink Lotus Flowers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1943, this vintage home movie captures a serene pond filled with blooming pink lotus flowers and large green lily pads. The scene, filmed from a fixed perspective, shows the gentle sway of the flowers and leaves in a natural garden setting, with dense trees and shrubs in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color saturation, and subtle grain, evoking a nostalgic, peaceful atmosphere. This archival clip offers a quiet glimpse into mid-century American garden 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: 123137797

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: Washington, District Of Columbia, 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 garden footage suited for documentary or museum cutaways about Washington, DC nature, home movies, public gardens, or quiet wartime-era leisure.
Period detail: The scene may show a 1943 Washington, DC lotus pond, with era clues limited to the 8mm color home-movie look and the absence of modern signage or structures.
Home-movie behavior: The fixed visitor-shot view observes lotus blooms and broad leaves without staging, preserving a calm home-movie record of a garden visit.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pink lotus blossoms, unopened buds, large green leaves, a pond surface mostly hidden by foliage, shrubs, trees, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, muted natural color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders that read as original 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, seasonal cutaway, memory beat, or transition into archival material about gardens, nature, or Washington, DC leisure.
Historical context: The footage gives a visual record of mid-century garden scenery, but the frames do not identify a specific landmark, institution, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, though copyright, source ownership, and any garden or property permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s 8mm lotus pond, Washington DC garden home movie, pink lotus flowers archival footage, and vintage lily pad pond.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1943 Washington, DC material, then broader 1940s garden, pond, flower, and nature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1943 Washington, DC 8mm frame showing a lotus pond with pink blooms, broad green leaves, and dense garden planting in the background. — Pink lotus blooms rise above broad leaves in a quiet garden pond.

1943 Washington, DC home-movie frame of pink lotus blooms and large green pond leaves seen from a fixed garden viewpoint. — A fixed view looks across lotus flowers and green leaves toward dense shrubs.

Soft 8mm frame from 1943 Washington, DC showing a lotus-filled pond with pink flowers, broad leaves, shrubs, and trees. — Lotus blossoms and leaves fill the foreground with garden foliage behind.

1943 Washington, DC 8mm still of a lotus pond with pink buds and flowers among dense green leaves and background trees. — Pink lotus buds and blossoms stand above a dense bed of pond leaves.

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