Atlantic City New Jersey-1938: White Building with Classical Columns and Pediment

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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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White Building with Classical Columns and Pediment — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a grand white building in Atlantic City, New Jersey, featuring prominent classical columns and a triangular pediment. The footage, framed by dark borders, shows the structure's symmetrical facade with arched ground-floor windows and a tree partially obscuring the right side. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color fading, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This clip offers authentic period architecture and urban scenery from the late 1930s, ideal for historical documentaries, retro 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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127265554

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: Useful for 1930s Atlantic City architecture requests needing brief home-movie views of a grand white classical facade for documentary or museum context.
Period detail: The white columns, triangular pediment, arched ground-floor openings and soft 8mm color may show resort-era civic or hotel architecture in late-1930s Atlantic City.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the front of a large building rather than staging action or formal architectural coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible details include white columns, a triangular pediment, arched lower windows, balcony railings, dark window openings, rooflines, trees and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, handheld framing, color fading, gate edges and contact-sheet-like black borders that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, architectural cutaway, travel-memory beat or transition into Atlantic City material.
Historical context: The footage records how a private camera observed a formal urban facade, emphasizing architecture, scale and street-level sightseeing rather than public events.
Research note: Rights review should consider copyright status separately from possible likeness or property concerns, since people are flagged in the clip metadata though not distinct in these stills.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1938 8mm Atlantic City building facade, vintage New Jersey classical columns, or home movie resort architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Atlantic City views, then broader 1930s resort, civic or classical-building footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame showing the upper portion of a white classical facade with columns, pediment and a tree partly blocking the view. — Upper facade with white columns, triangular pediment and dark film borders.

1938 Atlantic City frame of a white classical building seen from below, with tall columns, dark windows, roofline and tree branches at the edge. — Columned building facade viewed through soft, faded 8mm color.

1938 Atlantic City home-movie view of a symmetrical white facade with columns above arched lower openings, balcony railings and window boxes. — Wider view of the building front with arched lower openings and columns above.

1938 Atlantic City frame centered on the white building facade, showing four columns, a triangular pediment, arched lower level and dark window openings. — Centered facade view with columns, pediment window and arched lower level.

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