Atlantic City New Jersey-1938: Small Waves Push Against The Shore And The Long Pier

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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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Small Waves Push Against The Shore And The Long Pier — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures Atlantic City's iconic pier stretching into the ocean under a hazy sky. Gentle waves roll onto the shore, their white crests contrasting with the deep blue water. The pier features a prominent Texaco sign and a row of flags along its length, with buildings visible at its end. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a slightly blurred quality, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century seaside atmosphere. This authentic archival clip offers a rare glimpse of 1930s coastal life and Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127265327

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1930s Atlantic City seaside, boardwalk, pier, and coastal establishing needs for documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The long ocean pier, small flags, hazy beachfront view, and visible Texaco sign may show late-1930s Atlantic City resort infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot shoreline perspective, observing surf and pier activity from a distance rather than staging people or action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rolling surf, wet shoreline, a long pier on pilings, small flags, pier-end buildings, hazy sky, and a Texaco sign.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, color fading, gate edges, and contact-sheet framing that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short Atlantic City establishing insert, shoreline transition, resort-memory cutaway, or period travel beat.
Historical context: The view places Atlantic City leisure culture in a coastal setting, showing the pier as a prominent public-facing structure beside the ocean.
Research note: Visible branding and possible distant people require review; copyright, trademark, likeness, and location/property considerations should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1938 Atlantic City 8mm pier footage, New Jersey beach home movie, 1930s ocean waves, or Texaco sign pier view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Atlantic City or New Jersey footage from 1938, then broader 1930s beach, pier, and seaside travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Atlantic City 8mm frame showing small ocean waves, a long pier on pilings, hazy sky, and buildings at the pier end. — Small waves roll toward shore beneath the long Atlantic City pier.

1938 Atlantic City frame with a long pier, small flags, foamy surf, hazy sky, and structures at the pier end. — Flags line the pier as surf breaks below the pilings.

Atlantic City pier in 1938 with foamy waves below, a row of flags, and a red Texaco sign visible on the pier side. — A Texaco sign appears along the pier above the breaking waves.

1938 Atlantic City view of waves reaching the shore below a long flagged pier, with the Texaco sign visible near the center. — Surf washes toward the beach beneath the flagged pier and visible sign.

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