Hicksville New York-1954: Construction Scene With Bricks And Planks All Over In

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

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Construction Scene With Bricks And Planks All Over In — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a construction site in Hicksville, New York. A partially built cinder block foundation wall stands against a steep dirt embankment, with scattered concrete blocks, wooden planks, and construction debris on the ground. The footage shows a slow pan across the site, highlighting the early stages of a home's foundation. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly faded look, evoking mid-century Americana and DIY homebuilding nostalgia.

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: 123367701

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 construction, homebuilding, or mid-century residential development cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The cinder block foundation, rough earth cut, loose planks, and small-scale site layout support a 1954 Hicksville home-construction context from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, with the camera observing a work site from nearby rather than presenting a formal construction record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cinder block foundation wall, steep dirt embankment, scattered concrete blocks, wooden planks, boards, bare ground, and construction debris.
Film character: The 8mm film look shows visible grain, slight color fading, high-contrast sunlight, and modest handheld framing that add archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, neighborhood-development cutaway, construction transition, or memory beat about postwar homebuilding.
Historical context: The footage visually documents early residential foundation work in a suburban New York setting without showing workers, vehicles, signage, or finished houses.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any site or property permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches for 1954 8mm Hicksville construction site, 1950s Long Island home foundation, vintage cinder block building, or suburban homebuilding footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Hicksville 1954 material, then broader 1950s residential construction or suburban development footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville construction site showing a cinder block foundation wall, loose blocks, boards, and a steep dirt bank. — Cinder block foundation and scattered building materials at a residential construction site.

A 1954 Hicksville homebuilding view with cinder blocks, a foundation wall, loose boards, and earthwork behind it. — Loose blocks and boards lie in front of a partially built foundation wall.

The camera pans across a Hicksville foundation site, showing cinder block work, planks, loose blocks, and rough excavated ground. — A wider pan reveals more scattered boards and masonry around the foundation wall.

Late frame from the 1954 Hicksville construction pan with a cinder block foundation, earth bank, lumber, and scattered site materials. — The pan ends on the foundation wall and rough materials lying across the construction area.

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