Washington DC USA-1943: Yellow Water Lily Blooming on Pond

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Year1943
Decade1940s
LocationWashington, DC, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Washington DC

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Yellow Water Lily Blooming on Pond — Clip Details

A delicate yellow water lily blooms amidst lily pads on a dark pond, captured on 8mm film in 1943. The vintage footage shows a tranquil natural scene with soft focus and subtle film grain, framed by green reeds at the water's edge. This quiet moment of nature, shot in Washington DC, offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century home movie aesthetics with its characteristic color palette and analog texture.

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: 123137857

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, DC, 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 archival requests needing a quiet nature cutaway, seasonal pond detail, or home-movie insert from Washington, DC footage.
Period detail: The visible scene offers few date-specific clues beyond the 8mm color home-movie look, with lily pads, reeds, and a yellow bloom in soft focus.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of an unstaged home-movie observation, lingering briefly on a pond flower rather than documenting a formal event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a yellow water lily, broad lily pads, dark pond water, green reeds, soft reflections, and black frame edges from the film scan.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm focus, modest grain, slight exposure bloom on the flower, and visible frame borders that preserve the physical-film character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a nature cutaway, reflective transition, garden insert, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene records a small outdoor natural detail in Washington, DC, without visible people, buildings, signage, or event context in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, though copyright status and any underlying collection permissions still require normal rights review.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1943 Washington DC 8mm pond footage, yellow water lily home movie, 1940s nature cutaway, and vintage lily pad film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1943 Washington, DC material, then with other 1940s garden, pond, and flower footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Yellow water lily blooming among lily pads and reeds in 1943 Washington, DC 8mm home-movie footage. — A yellow water lily stands out against dark pond water and surrounding lily pads.

A yellow pond flower appears in soft focus amid lily pads and reeds in Washington, DC archival 8mm footage from 1943. — The bloom remains centered among pads, reeds, and dark reflective water.

The 8mm frame shows a yellow water lily below clustered lily pads, with reeds crossing the foreground in 1943 Washington, DC footage. — Foreground reeds cross a soft view of the water lily and clustered pads.

A yellow water lily sits near broad lily pads and green reeds in a softly exposed 1943 Washington, DC 8mm pond view. — The final frame holds on the flower, pads, reeds, and dark pond surface.

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