Atlantic City New Jersey-1938: View Of Grey Car Parked In Front Of White Building

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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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View Of Grey Car Parked In Front Of White Building — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a stately white building with classical columns and a triangular pediment in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The footage transitions to a classic grey sedan parked along the street, showcasing period automotive design. The final shot reveals a panoramic view of the city and distant hills under a clear sky. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of an old home movie, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and mid-20th century Americana.

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: 127265563

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 or New Jersey travel edits needing exterior architecture, street parking, and scenic overlook material from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clip shows a white classical-style building, a period grey sedan noted in the metadata, and a distant city view, with the 1938 date supported by the supplied clip record.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels like a visitor recording notable sights, moving from a formal building facade to a scenic view rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a columned white building, triangular pediment, arched upper window, dark frame borders, trees, grass, distant city blocks, and hazy hills.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-frame borders that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat within 1930s Atlantic City material.
Historical context: The footage places formal civic or resort-area architecture beside a broad overlook, suggesting a tourist's visual record of Atlantic City and its surroundings.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible in the provided frames, but building identification, property context, and underlying copyright still require normal review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 Atlantic City 8mm home movie, New Jersey classical building exterior, vintage parked car street scene, and city overlook footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Atlantic City footage, then 1930s travel, architecture, automobile, and scenic overlook clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame showing a white classical-style building with columns, a triangular pediment, and an arched upper window. — Columned white building facade with pediment and arched window.

1938 Atlantic City frame holding on the white columned building, with soft focus, dark window openings, and visible 8mm frame edges. — Second view of the columned building exterior on 8mm film.

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame showing a hazy city panorama beyond a shaded overlook, with trees, grass, and distant hills. — Hazy city panorama from a shaded overlook with trees in the foreground.

1938 Atlantic City frame with a soft, bluish city view beyond trees and grass, framed by the dark edges of the 8mm scan. — Distant city view and hills framed by tree trunks and film edges.

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