Hicksville New York-1954: A View Of A Construction Site With Cinder Blocks And Wooden Formwork

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

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A View Of A Construction Site With Cinder Blocks And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a construction site in Hicksville, New York. The footage shows a partially built foundation with cinder blocks and wooden formwork set against a backdrop of excavated earth. A wooden plank bridge spans a trench, and scattered construction materials litter the site. The warm, slightly faded color palette and visible film grain evoke a strong sense of mid-century Americana and DIY home building. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted footage of postwar construction activity.

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: 123367751

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 U.S. home-movie requests needing real residential construction or postwar suburban building cutaways.
Period detail: The cinder block foundation, timber formwork, excavated earth and 8mm color stock support a mid-1950s residential construction reading.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an observational home-movie viewpoint, lingering on the worksite details rather than staged labor or formal documentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cinder blocks, a low foundation wall, wooden planks, formwork, stacked lumber, trenches and mounded soil.
Film character: The clip carries visible 8mm grain, high-contrast sunlight, slight color fading and handheld framing that give it authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a construction insert, suburban development cutaway, or memory beat within a mid-century home-building sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects small-scale residential building activity in Hicksville, New York, without showing workers, residents or identifiable businesses.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but copyright, site ownership and any property-related context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1954 8mm Hicksville construction site, cinder block foundation home movie, and 1950s suburban house building footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Hicksville or 1954 home-movie material, then broader 1950s construction and suburban development scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville construction site with cinder blocks, a plank bridge and mounded earth around a partially built foundation. — Cinder block foundation and plank walkway amid excavated soil.

A partially built foundation in Hicksville, New York, with cinder blocks, wood planks and earth piled around the trench. — Plank walkway crossing a trench beside a low block wall.

Wooden formwork and stacked boards sit among cinder blocks and rough excavated earth at the 1954 Hicksville construction site. — Formwork and loose lumber inside the excavated site.

The later frame shows mounded soil, timber formwork and scattered boards in the Hicksville residential construction area. — Timber formwork and boards surrounded by mounded earth.

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