Hicksville New York-1954: View Of A Huge Loose Dirt Mound Surrounded By Trees

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationHicksville, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1954 Hicksville New York

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View Of A Huge Loose Dirt Mound Surrounded By Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a view of a large, loose dirt mound in a wooded area. The scene, filmed in HICKSVILLE NEW YORK, shows disturbed earth with exposed roots and scattered debris in the foreground, surrounded by bare trees under a cool blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and quiet rural change. The camera remains steady, offering a nostalgic glimpse into a moment of land clearing or construction.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123367593

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 1069 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: barlans, bears house,goodmans,bar mitzvah,steve
Reel-level year note: 1953-1954
Reel-level location note: new york city
Date: 1954 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: Hicksville, New York, 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 1950s archival requests needing rural Long Island land-clearing, construction-adjacent landscape, or wooded development cutaways.
Period detail: The bare trees, loose earth, exposed roots, and 8mm color home-movie stock may show a mid-century suburban or rural edge in Hicksville, New York.
Home-movie behavior: The steady camera treats the dirt mound as a casual home-movie observation, preserving an unstaged view of local terrain and change.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large loose dirt mound, exposed roots, fallen branches, leaf litter, bare trees, blue sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has 8mm grain, saturated blues and browns, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet edge framing that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, environmental insert, transition, or memory beat for land clearing, construction, or suburban change.
Historical context: The scene suggests disturbed woodland or a construction-related earth pile without showing workers, equipment, buildings, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related context should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1954 8mm Hicksville New York dirt mound, wooded land clearing, exposed roots, and vintage home movie construction cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Hicksville 1954 material, then other wooded land-clearing or suburban development footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville, New York 8mm frame showing a large dirt mound, exposed roots, fallen branches, and bare trees. — A loose earth pile sits at the edge of bare woodland with roots and debris in front.

1954 Hicksville, New York view of disturbed earth, exposed roots, and a wooded background under a blue sky. — Disturbed soil and roots form a rough mound in front of leafless trees.

1954 Hicksville, New York 8mm frame with a low earth ridge, scattered branches, leaf litter, and bare woodland. — A low mound of loose soil stretches across a wooded area with branches on the ground.

1954 Hicksville, New York frame showing a rounded mound of earth, exposed ground, fallen branches, and surrounding trees. — The final frame holds on a rounded dirt mound bordered by bare trees and ground debris.

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