Hicksville New York-1954: Residential Construction Site with Cinder Blocks

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

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Residential Construction Site with Cinder Blocks — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a residential construction site in Hicksville, New York. The footage shows a deep trench being dug in a suburban neighborhood, with piles of excavated earth and scattered construction materials. Blue cinder blocks are stacked and laid in the trench, forming a foundation wall, while wooden beams and planks lie nearby. The scene is framed by a dark border, typical of home movie footage, with a view of white and pastel-colored houses in the background under a clear sky. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts characteristic of mid-century Super 8 footage.

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: 123367858

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 suburban development requests needing residential construction, excavation, or neighborhood-growth cutaways from real home-movie footage.
Period detail: The small houses, open lots, cinder-block foundation work, and bare trees support a mid-1950s suburban Long Island setting as described in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a fixed nearby vantage, giving the trench and building materials the informal attention of a resident documenting neighborhood change.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a deep trench, excavated soil banks, stacked cinder blocks, loose boards, wooden bracing, bare trees, utility poles, and nearby houses.
Film character: The 8mm footage has strong grain, slight color shift, dark frame edges, and uneven exposure that preserve the tactile character of a mid-century home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for suburban expansion, home building, infrastructure work, or postwar domestic landscapes.
Historical context: The clip visually situates house construction within a quiet residential neighborhood, showing small-scale building activity rather than a formal commercial worksite.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1954 Hicksville New York home movie construction, 1950s suburban foundation trench, 8mm residential building footage, and cinder-block house work.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1954 Hicksville material, then broader 1950s suburban construction or neighborhood footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville, New York home-movie view of a residential excavation trench with nearby small houses and bare trees in the background. — A residential construction trench sits in front of small neighborhood houses and utility poles.

Cinder blocks and loose boards appear beside an excavated residential trench in the Hicksville construction footage. — Construction materials lie beside the trench as the camera looks across the excavation.

A partially built cinder-block foundation wall stands in a trench with stacked blocks and wooden beams nearby. — A cinder-block foundation wall rises along the edge of the excavated residential site.

The final frame shows the cinder-block foundation and scattered lumber within the 1954 Hicksville residential construction scene. — The foundation wall, lumber, and dirt banks fill the frame near the end of the clip.

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