Atlantic City New Jersey-1938: Two Flags Fly On Top Of White Spire Of Brown

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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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Two Flags Fly On Top Of White Spire Of Brown — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a historic brick building in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with a prominent white clock tower. The camera pans across the structure, revealing arched windows and dormers, partially obscured by lush tree branches. Two flags flutter atop the tower against a clear sky, with the film's characteristic purple color cast and grain adding to its nostalgic, archival quality. This footage offers a rare glimpse of early 20th-century architecture and urban life.

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: 127265438

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: Useful for 1930s Atlantic City architectural cutaways, establishing inserts, or documentary sequences needing visitor-shot home-movie views of a civic-looking brick building and clock tower.
Period detail: The brick facade, dormers, arched windows, cupola-like clock tower, and small flags may show prewar urban architecture as seen in 1938 home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The brief pan and upward framing carry a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the building's tower and flags rather than staging any event or human activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brown brick building, white-trimmed windows, dormers, arched openings, leafy tree branches, a pale sky, a white clock tower, and two flags.
Film character: The clip has a soft 8mm look with visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, purple color shift, and handheld framing that reads as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, architectural cutaway, location transition, or memory beat within a 1930s Atlantic City sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a public-facing exterior and tower detail in Atlantic City, offering visual context for streetscape and architectural style without showing identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still verify copyright status and any property or landmark permissions for their intended use.
Research search match: Searches such as 1938 Atlantic City 8mm building, vintage New Jersey clock tower, home movie brick landmark, or 1930s flags on tower may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with Atlantic City or New Jersey footage from 1938, then with 1930s civic architecture, towers, flags, or travel views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame showing a brown brick building with white trim, dormers, arched windows, and leafy branches in front. — Brick exterior and dormered roof seen through trees.

Atlantic City exterior view from 1938 with a brick facade, white-trimmed windows, dark roofline, and dense trees crossing the frame. — Tree branches obscure part of the brick building facade.

1938 Atlantic City frame centered on a white clock tower rising above a brick building roof, with leafy branches along the edge. — White clock tower rises above the roofline.

Atlantic City home-movie frame showing the upper clock tower with two flags flying above it and tree branches framing the right edge. — Two small flags fly above the tower.

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