Hicksville New York-1954: Excavated Dirt Mound with Tire Tracks in Wooded Area

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

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Excavated Dirt Mound with Tire Tracks in Wooded Area — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a large mound of freshly dug dirt in a wooded area, likely during early construction in Hicksville, New York. The scene shows disturbed earth with visible tire tracks and a metal rod or pipe lying across the foreground. Bare trees with hints of autumn color stand in the background under a blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and film edge borders, conveying a raw, archival feel of mid-century 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: 123367624

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing a brief construction, excavation, or suburban development cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage, wooded setting, exposed soil, and tire tracks may show mid-century residential or local construction activity in Hicksville, New York.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a disturbed dirt area from a casual home-movie viewpoint, suggesting a family or neighborhood record rather than a staged construction film.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large dirt mound, tire ruts, loose soil, bare trees, blue sky, a metal pipe or rod, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has pronounced 8mm grain, soft focus, color shift toward blue, uneven exposure, and visible contact-sheet framing that reinforce its physical-film origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transitional beat, or environmental cutaway for land clearing, construction, memory, or suburban growth sequences.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for disturbed land at the edge of a wooded area, without enough evidence to identify the project or property shown.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s 8mm dirt mound, Hicksville New York construction, home movie excavation, wooded tire tracks, and suburban development footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1954 Hicksville material, then broader 1950s construction, land clearing, or suburban landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame showing disturbed earth, a dirt mound, tire ruts, and bare trees beyond the excavation area. — A mound of freshly disturbed soil sits in front of bare trees, with tire tracks visible in the foreground.

1954 Hicksville frame with an exposed dirt bank, tire-marked ground, bare trees, and a possible pipe or rod across the soil. — The camera frames an uneven dirt bank with trees behind it and rutted ground in front.

Soft 8mm frame from Hicksville in 1954 showing a sloped mound of disturbed soil, tire ruts, and leafless trees behind it. — A slightly blurred view shows the dirt mound and rutted ground from a handheld home-movie perspective.

1954 Hicksville frame showing disturbed soil, tire ruts, trees, and a small partial wooden structure or debris near the right edge. — The final frame reveals rutted soil and a partial wooden structure or debris beside the dirt mound.

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