United States-1948: Pan Across Red Flowering Trees and Striped Flower Beds Below Hills

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit

Answers requests for late-1940s colour home-movie footage of a tropical holiday garden, useful as an establishing or atmosphere shot in travel and social history productions.

Period detail

The warm, saturated colour of the 8mm reversal stock may show the late-1940s date given for the trip, though nothing in the garden itself carries a datable object.

Home-movie behavior

A visitor's camera sweeps across the planting to take in the whole garden, filming the flowers and the view as the attraction rather than posing anyone.

What appears in frame

Red flowering trees, an overhanging branch, striped yellow and pink flower beds, a pergola covered in white blossom, a pale lawn, a distant figure in white and a dry hillside behind.

Film character

Soft focus, fine grain, bright lawn highlights and rich reds give the pan the warm, hand-held texture of 8mm colour film projected and recaptured.

Edit role

Works as an establishing shot or colourful transition into a mid-century holiday sequence, or as a short memory beat between shots of people.

Historical context

Formal bedding displays and flowering trees like these were a common subject for travellers filming on colour stock after the war, when amateur colour film became widely used for holiday reels.

Research note

Copyright in the film is separate from any likeness rights; the one distant figure is not identifiable, and the garden's ownership and location are not established, so property use should be considered independently.

Research search match

1940s tropical garden home movie, vintage 8mm flower beds footage, colour travel film garden pan circa 1948, archival footage of flowering trees below hills.

Archive pairing path

Pair first with the same reel's woman and boy posing in a garden and the busy town street, then with the quay and basket market clips, then with other late-1940s holiday garden footage.