Hicksville New York-1954: House At The Forest

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

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House At The Forest — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a rural construction site in Hicksville, New York. The footage shows a partially built house with exposed brick foundation and concrete blocks, surrounded by cleared land and a dense forest. Piles of dirt, construction materials, and utility poles are visible under a clear blue sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a handheld perspective, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century 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: 123367923

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: 1950s 8mm home-movie footage for requests about suburban construction, rural edges, and postwar residential development in Hicksville, New York.
Period detail: The cleared lot, concrete block work, utility pole, and wooded surroundings may show mid-century residential building activity at the edge of a developed road.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, briefly observing a construction area from a handheld position without visible performers or posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a partially built foundation, concrete blocks, dirt piles, leafless trees, a white house, utility poles, a road edge, and scattered materials.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows coarse grain, blue color shift, soft focus, gate edges, and slight handheld framing that preserve its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, transition, or memory beat for mid-century housing, land clearing, or suburban expansion sequences.
Historical context: The frames place new construction beside woodland and existing houses, suggesting a residential landscape in transition without proving a specific development project.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are evident, but copyright, location verification, and any property-release needs should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s Hicksville home movie construction, 8mm rural house building, Long Island residential development, and vintage forest-edge lot footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1954 Hicksville material, then broader 1950s home-movie construction or suburban landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville 8mm frame showing a partly built house site with dirt banks, trees, and nearby residential structures. — A construction area sits below wooded ground with a house and unfinished masonry visible.

Hicksville, New York construction site with concrete blocks, bare trees, dirt piles, a white house, and a utility pole. — Concrete blocks and disturbed earth appear beside trees and a white house in the background.

1950s 8mm view of a Hicksville roadside construction area with woodland, concrete blocks, dirt, and houses beyond. — The handheld view looks across a rough construction site toward trees and houses.

End frame from a 1954 Hicksville home movie showing blocks, dirt piles, trees, a utility pole, and residential buildings. — Scattered blocks and earthworks line the edge of a wooded residential construction site.

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