Hicksville New York-1954: Light Blue Car at Construction Site

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

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Light Blue Car at Construction Site — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban scene in Hicksville, New York. A light blue classic car parks on a gravel road near a construction site with stacked concrete blocks and a mound of dirt. Bare trees and a utility pole frame the background under a clear blue sky. The footage shows a slow approach toward the car, with a white house partially visible behind the site. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain evoke a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123367981

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 Long Island inserts involving residential roads, home construction, and parked mid-century automobiles.
Period detail: The light-colored rounded car, gravel road, utility pole, bare trees, and block stacks support a mid-1950s residential construction setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes an ordinary roadside scene from a quiet, unstaged home-movie perspective as the car and building materials come into view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a light blue car, gravel road, white house, stacked concrete blocks, dirt mound, leafless trees, utility pole, and blue sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated blue tones, visible grain, slight gate edges, soft focus, and handheld home-movie exposure shifts.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, suburban establishing insert, construction-area detail, or memory beat for postwar home life.
Historical context: The scene documents residential roadside space in Hicksville with construction materials and an automobile visible, without showing people or named businesses.
Research note: No people, faces, or logos are visible, but copyright, location identification, and property-related permissions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1954 Hicksville New York 8mm home movie, 1950s suburban road, parked blue car, house construction, and Long Island residential footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Hicksville or 1954 New York suburban clips, then broader 1950s residential construction and car footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame showing a gravel road, stacked blocks, dirt piles, bare trees, and part of a light blue car. — A gravel roadside construction area appears with a partial car at the right edge.

1954 Hicksville frame with a light blue car parked near a gravel road, concrete blocks, dirt piles, and leafless trees. — A light blue car is parked near construction materials along the roadside.

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame showing a parked light blue car beside a road with construction blocks and bare trees. — The parked car sits closer in frame beside the gravel road and construction area.

1954 Hicksville frame of a light blue car parked along a quiet road near concrete blocks, brush, and leafless trees. — The car remains parked at the roadside with construction materials visible nearby.

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