Atlantic City New Jersey-1938: Horseback Riding On Beach Near Child

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationAtlantic City, New Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 Atlantic City New Jersey

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Horseback Riding On Beach Near Child — Clip Details

ATLANTIC CITY NEW JERSEY-1938: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a person riding a horse along the sandy shoreline, with gentle waves rolling in. In the background, a wooden pier stretches into the ocean under a muted sky. A child walks along the beach, unaware of the rider passing by. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, soft focus, and a distinct purple color cast, evoking a nostalgic 1930s seaside atmosphere. This authentic archival clip offers a rare glimpse of leisure life at the Jersey coast during the Great Depression era.

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: 127265276

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: Supports 1930s Atlantic City seaside leisure requests for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing real 8mm beach and horseback-riding footage.
Period detail: The shoreline, distant wooden pier or jetty, muted beachwear silhouettes, and metadata-supported 1938 Atlantic City location place the scene in a late-1930s coastal setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual, unstaged home-movie view of a rider passing along the surf while a beachgoer walks nearby without posing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a horse and rider, sandy beach, rolling surf, distant pier structure, lone walker, soft horizon, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, purple color shift, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, transition, coastal cutaway, or memory beat for Atlantic City leisure, beach travel, or prewar American vacation imagery.
Historical context: The scene shows ordinary seaside recreation during the late Depression era, with horseback riding and shoreline walking presented through a private home-movie viewpoint.
Research note: People are visible but faces are not clearly identifiable; review likeness concerns separately from copyright, with no visible logos or private property in these frames.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1938 Atlantic City beach 8mm, New Jersey shore horseback riding, 1930s seaside home movie, and vintage boardwalk-era coastal recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1938 Atlantic City or New Jersey shore footage, then broader 1930s beach leisure, travel, and home-movie sequences.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Atlantic City beach scene with a horse and rider near the waterline and a distant pier or jetty in the background. — A rider passes along the shoreline as waves break behind a distant pier structure.

On the Atlantic City shoreline, the rider exits the frame as a lone beachgoer walks beside the waves. — The rider moves past the camera while a solitary figure continues along the beach.

A solitary beachgoer walks along the 1938 Atlantic City shoreline, with surf and a distant pier structure beyond. — A walker crosses the beach as the surf rolls in behind them.

Atlantic City shoreline view with a lone walker near the waterline, distant pier forms, and purple-tinted 8mm film texture. — The beachgoer walks parallel to the surf with the pier structure far offshore.

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