Atlantic City New Jersey-1938: Brown Building and White Pole on Hillside

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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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Brown Building and White Pole on Hillside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1938, this vintage home movie captures a quiet scene in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The camera pans across a grassy hillside, revealing a distinctive brown brick building with white trim and a prominent white pole. A small gazebo sits nearby, surrounded by lush trees and rolling hills under a clear sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with a purplish hue, film grain, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century Americana atmosphere.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127265670

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-area home-movie requests needing a quiet exterior cutaway of a hillside building, lawn, pole, gazebo, and trees.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show late-1930s landscape upkeep, brick construction, white trim, and a small gazebo-like structure in a park or hillside setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, panning past the building and grounds without staging, narration, or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a brown brick building, white vertical pole, grassy slope, small gazebo, mature trees, paved or mown open ground, and distant wooded hillside.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, blue-purple color shift, visible grain, contact-sheet framing, and slight handheld blur.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing cutaway, memory beat, location transition, or visual pause within a 1930s travel or domestic reel sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests a landscaped public or institutional exterior, but the frames do not identify the building, site ownership, or specific local landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the intended production.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 8mm Atlantic City exterior, New Jersey hillside building, vintage home movie gazebo, white pole lawn scene, and 1930s color travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1938 Atlantic City material, then broader 1930s New Jersey exteriors or home-movie travel cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame showing a brown brick building with white trim, a white pole, lawn, gazebo, and trees. — Brown brick building and white pole on a landscaped hillside.

1938 Atlantic City frame with a white pole in front of a sloped lawn, trees, and part of a brown brick building. — The camera frames the pole, lawn, and edge of the brick building.

1938 Atlantic City home-movie frame looking across a sloped lawn toward a white pole, small gazebo, trees, and wooded hillside. — Sloped grounds with a pole, gazebo, and wooded background.

1938 Atlantic City frame showing the hillside grounds after the pan, with lawn, trees, wooded hill, and a partial white pole. — The pan settles on lawn, trees, and a distant wooded slope.

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