Atlantic City New Jersey-1938: Building Entrance with Brick Pillars

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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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Building Entrance with Brick Pillars — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a historic brick building in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The clip features a long covered hallway with multiple brick pillars supporting a roofline, leading to an entrance. A prominent light post stands near the structure, and lush green trees frame the scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with a distinct blue-purple tint, film grain, and natural camera movement, offering authentic archival footage of early 20th-century architecture and design.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127265663

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s Atlantic City home-movie footage useful for documentary or museum sequences needing exterior architectural cutaways from original 8mm film.
Period detail: The brick construction, covered colonnade, multi-pane windows, lawn, trees, and simple lamp post may show early 20th-century civic or resort-area architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a visitor-like outdoor position, treating the building entrance and covered walkway as a place worth recording during travel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brick building, long covered walkway, repeated pillars, white roofline, entrance door, lamp post, grass, and mature trees.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, soft focus, blue-purple color shift, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing as part of its physical-film character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, architectural cutaway, place-setting transition, or quiet memory beat within a 1930s travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for Atlantic City-area built environments and leisure travel filming without proving the building's identity or use.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 8mm Atlantic City building exterior, 1930s home movie architecture, brick colonnade entrance, and vintage New Jersey travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Atlantic City 1938 footage, then 1930s New Jersey exteriors, travel scenes, or historic brick architecture.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame showing a brick building entrance, covered colonnade, grass, trees, and a nearby lamp post. — A brick exterior and long covered walkway are framed by lawn and trees.

Atlantic City 1938 frame with a brick facade, columned covered passage, white trim, grass, and large trees in the background. — The camera centers the columned walkway running along the brick structure.

1938 Atlantic City frame showing the building corner, tall multi-pane window, brick colonnade, walkway roofline, grass, and low shrubs. — A closer angle emphasizes the building corner, window, and repeated brick supports.

Atlantic City 1938 home-movie frame with a brick building corner, columned walkway, lamp post, grass, shrubs, and trees. — A lamp post enters the frame beside the brick walkway and building corner.

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