Atlantic City New Jersey-1938: Classical Building with Arched Entryways

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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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Classical Building with Arched Entryways — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a white classical-style building with prominent columns and arched entryways in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The footage, viewed through a dark frame, shows a clear day with lush green trees partially obscuring the structure. A few people are visible near the entrance, dressed in period attire. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, slight color fading, and natural grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a historic landmark.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127265547

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1938 Atlantic City 8mm clip supports requests for Depression-era resort architecture, street-view landmarks, or period establishing cutaways.
Period detail: The white columned facade, arched ground-floor openings, balcony railings, and formal landscaping may show a public or hotel-like Atlantic City building in the late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels visitor-shot, with the camera lingering from across trees and structural shadows rather than staging people or movement.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a white classical-style facade, tall columns, arched entrances, balcony railings, trees, shrubs, rooflines, and small figures near the doorway.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, gate shadows, and slight handheld reframing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, architectural cutaway, resort-memory beat, or transition into Atlantic City travel material.
Historical context: The clip offers social context through a tourist or passerby view of formal seaside urban architecture without confirming the building identity.
Research note: People are small but visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1938 Atlantic City home movie building, 8mm New Jersey resort architecture, white columned facade, and vintage travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1938 Atlantic City views, then broader 1930s resort, boardwalk, hotel, or civic-building footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame showing a white classical-style facade with arches, columns, landscaping, and distant people. — White columned facade seen through a dark film frame, with shrubs and small figures near the entrance.

1938 Atlantic City frame with white columns, arched lower facade, balcony railings, trees, and a central dark gate shadow. — Classical-style building and tree viewed through a strong vertical shadow in the film frame.

1938 Atlantic City view of the upper facade, showing columns, slate-colored roof sections, balcony railing, and foreground tree branches. — Upper facade and roofline of the white building, partly obscured by a foreground tree.

1938 Atlantic City frame showing the building corner with tall columns, balcony railing, dark windows, roofline, and a leafy foreground tree. — Building corner with columns and balcony railing, partially hidden by a tree in the foreground.

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