Atlantic City New Jersey-1938: Grand Art Deco Building With American Flag

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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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Grand Art Deco Building With American Flag — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a grand Art Deco-style building in Atlantic City, New Jersey, under a bright, sunny sky. The American flag flies atop the structure, which features numerous windows and a distinctive roofline. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and a slightly faded, purplish color tint characteristic of the era. The camera pans slowly, revealing the building's full facade and a lower arched structure in the foreground. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into 1930s American architecture and urban life, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127265348

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 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 8mm Atlantic City exterior footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing urban architecture and American flag atmosphere.
Period detail: The tall masonry facade, stepped roofline, rows of windows, and rooftop American flag may show late-1930s resort-city architectural character.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, with the camera studying a prominent building from street level rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall multi-story building, American flag, bright sky, roofline detail, window rows, dark film edges, and a lower arched structure.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight handheld drift, uneven exposure, and a purplish faded color cast typical of aged home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors can use this as an establishing insert, location cutaway, transition, or memory beat for 1930s Atlantic City and American urban architecture.
Historical context: The view provides social context for Atlantic City as a built resort environment, showing monumental civic or hotel-scale architecture under a sunny sky.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but building identification, property concerns, and copyright status should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1938 Atlantic City 8mm building exterior, 1930s New Jersey home movie, American flag on urban facade, and Art Deco-style architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1938 Atlantic City exteriors, then broader 1930s U.S. resort-city and architecture material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame showing a tall masonry building with rows of windows and an American flag near the roofline. — A tall Atlantic City building is filmed from below with a rooftop American flag visible.

1938 Atlantic City exterior view of the upper portion of a large multi-story building with a flag and sunlit roofline. — The camera holds on the upper facade and flag near the roof of the large building.

1938 Atlantic City frame showing the building facade, many windows, and a lower arched structure at the street-level foreground. — The pan reveals more of the facade and the lower arched structure below it.

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame with the tall building, arched foreground structure, and dark film-edge framing. — The building remains centered as the lower arches and dark film border come into view.

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