Hicksville New York-1954: Development Of Suburban Community

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

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Development Of Suburban Community — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a construction site in Hicksville, New York, where a row of new white houses is being built. Piles of dirt and stacks of concrete blocks surround wooden formwork, indicating early-stage development. The scene transitions to show the completed homes, suggesting a shift from rural land to suburban community. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with faded blues and earth tones, offering a nostalgic look at mid-century American housing expansion.

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: 123367789

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 documentary or education requests about postwar suburban housing construction and community expansion in Hicksville, New York.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century small detached houses, open building lots, concrete blocks, dirt piles, and simple wood formwork consistent with 1954 residential development.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, observing neighborhood construction and finished houses from a nearby outdoor vantage rather than a planned industrial survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dirt mounds, stacked concrete blocks, wooden formwork, bare trees, graded earth, small white houses, chimneys, and parked cars.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated blue shadows, warm earth tones, soft focus, visible grain, edge vignetting, and slight handheld framing typical of home-movie color footage.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, transition, or visual memory beat for suburban growth, house building, or changing Long Island landscapes.
Historical context: The clip visually situates new housing at the edge of open or wooded land, suggesting a shift from undeveloped ground to a built residential block.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any property-identification concerns for their intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1954 Hicksville New York home movie, 8mm suburban house construction, Long Island residential development, and mid-century new homes footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Hicksville or 1954 New York material, and then with broader suburban development or house construction footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville construction site with mounded soil, wood forms, concrete blocks, and leafless trees in the background. — Wooden formwork and concrete blocks sit among dirt piles at a residential construction site.

Hicksville, New York building lot in 1954 with dirt mounds, wood forms, concrete blocks, and wooded land beyond. — The camera holds on concrete blocks and rough framing set into an excavated lot.

Outdoor residential construction detail in Hicksville, showing wood framing, stacked blocks, earth piles, and a wooded edge. — A closer view shows construction materials and earthworks before the houses are complete.

Completed white houses in Hicksville, New York, seen across muddy construction ground with parked cars and bare trees. — The view shifts from construction materials to a row of newly built white houses.

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