Paducah Kentucky USA-1951: White House Under Construction in New Suburban Section

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Year1951
Decade1950s
LocationPaducah, Kentucky, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Paducah Kentucky

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White House Under Construction in New Suburban Section — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1951, this vintage home movie captures a new suburban neighborhood under construction in Paducah, Kentucky. The footage shows a single-story white house with a gray roof, its exterior partially finished with exposed framing and unfinished windows. Construction debris and wooden planks lie on the ground, and a ramp leads to the front door. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing a quiet street and neighboring homes in various stages of completion. The film exhibits natural grain, slight blurriness, and age marks typical of Super 8 home movies from the era, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American suburban development.

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: 123319397

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1951 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Paducah, Kentucky, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s U.S. suburban growth, residential construction, and mid-century neighborhood development inserts in documentary or education edits.
Period detail: The single-story houses, simple street layout, open lots, and unfinished framing may show early postwar residential subdivision building in Paducah, Kentucky.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged home-movie glance from across the street, observing ordinary construction rather than a formal building survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include one-story houses, unfinished framing, exposed windows, a front ramp, wood planks, lawn, road, utility pole, and trees.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, uneven exposure, dust specks, gate edges, and gentle handheld panning that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, establishing insert, transition, or memory beat for housing, construction, or postwar suburbia sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents residential expansion at street level without proving ownership, developer identity, or the broader planning history of the area.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are indicated, but residential exteriors and copyright status still require normal production clearance review.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1951 Paducah Kentucky home construction, 1950s suburban neighborhood, 8mm new houses, and postwar residential development footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then Paducah or Kentucky material from 1951, then other 1950s home-building or suburban street scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1951 Paducah home-movie frame showing a white one-story house with a gray roof, lawn, road, and soft 8mm grain. — A finished-looking single-story house stands across a quiet residential street.

1951 Paducah frame showing a new residential lot with a house edge, open framing, utility pole, and road in soft focus. — The camera pans toward a lot where residential construction is underway.

1951 Paducah home-movie frame with exposed house framing, a roadside utility pole, construction materials, grass, and a tree. — Exposed framing and scattered materials mark a house under construction beside the road.

1951 Paducah frame showing a soft, panned view of a construction lot with tree branches, road, and partly built houses. — A blurred pan closes on the new subdivision, with framing and roadside trees visible.

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