Atlantic City New Jersey-1938: Beautiful Day For A Walk On The Beach Alone

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationAtlantic City, New Jersey, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Atlantic City New Jersey

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Beautiful Day For A Walk On The Beach Alone — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a quiet beach scene in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The footage shows gentle waves rolling onto the sandy shore under a hazy sky, with a weathered pier visible in the distance. A lone figure walks along the water's edge, their silhouette moving across the frame. The image has a distinct purple color cast and film grain, characteristic of early home movie stock. This archival clip evokes a sense of nostalgia and historical Americana, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or vintage-themed projects.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127265271

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1678 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: skyline drive,black water falls
Reel-level year note: 1938
Reel-level location note: atlantic city
Date: 1938 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: Atlantic City, New Jersey, 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: 1930s Atlantic City beach footage suited to documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing quiet shoreline atmosphere from a real 8mm home movie.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1930s resort beachfront details, including a broad sandy shore, distant pier structure, hazy sea horizon, and small figures near the surf.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in an unstaged visitor viewpoint, watching waves and beach walkers from a fixed, slightly distant position along the shoreline.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include ocean surf, wet sand, beach footprints, a hazy sky, a distant pier, dark film-frame borders, and small walking figures near the water.
Film character: The 8mm scan has purple color shift, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, dust specks, and slight handheld instability that mark it as physical home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, memory beat, or establishing insert for Atlantic City, seaside leisure, or prewar American beach life.
Historical context: The scene offers a quiet view of public beach leisure in Atlantic City, with people walking near the surf and built shoreline structures in the distance.
Research note: People appear small and not clearly identifiable; review likeness, copyright, and any location or pier-related permissions separately for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1930s Atlantic City beach, 8mm New Jersey shore, vintage home movie ocean waves, and prewar seaside resort footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Atlantic City or 1938 New Jersey material, then with beach walking, ocean, pier, or resort-life themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame showing a hazy beach, rolling surf, and a distant pier through 8mm film grain. — Hazy Atlantic City shoreline with low surf and a pier in the distance.

Atlantic City beach scene from 1938 with small surf lines, open sand, and a distant pier under a hazy sky. — Gentle waves approach the beach with the pier structure beyond the surf.

1938 Atlantic City shoreline view with wet sand, low waves, and a distant pier softened by home-movie film texture. — Wide shoreline view with surf, wet sand, and the pier in the background.

1938 Atlantic City beach frame showing two small walking figures near the waterline, with surf and a distant pier behind them. — Beach walkers pass near the waterline as waves break below the distant pier.

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