Atlantic City New Jersey-1938: Old Woman Taking A Walk In The Garden

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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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Old Woman Taking A Walk In The Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures an elderly woman in a dark coat and wide-brimmed hat strolling through a leafy garden in Atlantic City, New Jersey. A man in a light suit walks beside her, their conversation implied as they move along a brick path. The footage exhibits the characteristic purple color cast and grain of early home movies, with natural lighting and a handheld camera perspective. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment of daily life in the late 1930s, with trees and manicured greenery forming a serene backdrop.

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: 127265495

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: 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 home-movie requests needing elderly adults walking outdoors, garden leisure, or quiet daily-life inserts.
Period detail: The dark long coat, brimmed hat, light suit, tie, and formal outdoor dress support a late-1930s period feel without identifying a specific venue.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie moment as two adults move slowly through a garden path while the camera observes from a casual distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an elderly woman in a dark coat and hat, a man in a light suit, brick or paved garden paths, lawn, trees, shrubs, and soft open daylight.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows purple color shift, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that give the scene useful physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, transition, or period texture shot for family, leisure, aging, or garden-life sequences.
Historical context: The scene suggests formal outdoor leisure and social walking in a landscaped setting, consistent with prewar American home-movie documentation.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed even where copyright, location, and property issues are assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1938 Atlantic City home movie, elderly woman garden walk, 1930s outdoor leisure footage, and 8mm family garden scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Atlantic City 1938 material, then broader 1930s garden, walking, and family-leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame showing a suited man near an elderly woman in a dark coat and hat on a garden path. — A suited man stands near an elderly woman walking away along the garden path.

1938 Atlantic City frame with an elderly woman in a dark coat and brimmed hat on a garden path, with a suited man nearby. — The woman pauses or turns on the path while the suited man moves beside the lawn.

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame showing an elderly woman in formal dark clothing walking beside a lawn and trees. — The woman walks alone along the paved path with open lawn behind her.

1938 Atlantic City frame showing the elderly woman in a dark coat and hat standing on a paved garden path near lawn and trees. — The woman stands on the path, framed by lawn, trees, and soft home-movie focus.

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