Hicksville New York-1954: Construction Site With Gray Bricks Laid For Foundation

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

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Construction Site With Gray Bricks Laid For Foundation — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a construction site in Hicksville, New York. The footage shows a freshly dug excavation with mounds of brown dirt and a partially laid gray brick foundation wall. Wooden planks and construction debris are scattered around the site, with a forested backdrop of bare trees under a clear blue sky. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts typical of mid-century home movies, offering authentic archival footage of 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: 123367663

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 suburban development sequences, documentary inserts on home construction, or establishing shots of a residential building site in Hicksville, New York.
Period detail: The clip shows mid-century 8mm color footage of an excavated lot, gray block foundation work, bare trees, dirt mounds, and lumber, consistent with the supplied 1954 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, observing a construction site from nearby rather than presenting a formal contractor or newsreel record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include earth piles, a dug foundation trench, gray masonry blocks, loose boards, scattered construction debris, bare trees, and blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, slight color shifts, exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that reinforce its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or cutaway for suburban growth, house-building, neighborhood change, or family memory sequences.
Historical context: The scene visually documents residential construction activity and land disturbance in a suburban New York setting without showing workers, residents, or completed houses.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related context should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Searches this clip may match include 1950s 8mm home movie construction site, Hicksville New York foundation wall, suburban house building, dirt excavation, and gray block foundation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Hicksville or 1954 material, then broader 1950s suburban construction and home-building footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville, New York 8mm frame showing a dug construction area with earth piles, bare trees, and scattered lumber. — Dirt mounds and lumber sit beside a freshly excavated foundation area.

1954 Hicksville construction-site frame with raised earth, loose boards, and a wooded backdrop under blue sky. — A raised mound of soil borders the open construction area with loose lumber nearby.

8mm home-movie frame from the Hicksville site showing an excavated lot, wood debris, and bare trees beyond the dirt piles. — The camera holds on the rough excavated ground and scattered construction material.

1954 Hicksville frame showing a partially laid gray block foundation wall set into a dirt excavation with boards and debris nearby. — A gray block foundation wall appears along the excavated edge with boards scattered below.

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