Atlantic City New Jersey-1938: Beautiful Mansion With Columns And Satellite Dish

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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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Beautiful Mansion With Columns And Satellite Dish — Clip Details

ATLANTIC CITY NEW JERSEY-1938: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a stately mansion with classical columns and a grand front porch. The footage, shot in warm, saturated colors with noticeable film grain, shows the building's facade under bright sunlight, casting deep shadows. A figure stands silhouetted in the doorway, adding a human element to the historic architecture. The clip includes a rooftop view with a weather vane and a prominent satellite dish, an anachronistic detail suggesting later use or restoration. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into early 20th-century American domestic life and architecture.

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: 127265623

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: 1930s Atlantic City home-movie footage useful for documentary inserts on domestic architecture, travel, or affluent residential streetscapes.
Period detail: The clip may show period residential architecture through classical porch columns, arched doorway glazing, broad steps, and a formal roofline.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a visitor-like distance, catching the facade and a silhouetted person in the doorway without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white porch columns, front steps, arched doors, deep shadows, roof details, trees, and a small silhouetted figure.
Film character: The 8mm scan has saturated blue-purple color, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and slight exposure shifts typical of home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, architectural cutaway, or memory beat between Atlantic City travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage places a substantial columned residence within a prewar leisure-city setting, while the visible frames do not identify the property.
Research note: A person is visible in silhouette and the residence may require likeness or property review separate from copyright status.
Research search match: Researchers may find it under 1930s Atlantic City home movie, 8mm mansion exterior, columned porch, residential architecture, or silhouetted doorway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel shots, then other 1938 Atlantic City exteriors, then broader 1930s mansion and porch architecture footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame showing a columned mansion facade with arched upper window, roof details, trees, and deep shadow. — Columned residence seen from a distance, with roof details and trees framing the view.

1938 Atlantic City frame of a stately house exterior, showing white porch columns, roof elements, an arched window, and surrounding trees. — The camera holds on the upper facade and porch columns of the residence.

1938 Atlantic City home-movie view of the mansion entrance, with broad steps, tall columns, arched doors, and a person silhouetted inside the doorway. — A silhouetted figure appears in the open doorway beneath the columned porch.

1938 Atlantic City frame showing the residence entrance, broad steps, white columns, arched doors, and a silhouetted person at the open doorway. — The doorway figure remains visible as the camera frames the porch and front steps.

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