Hicksville New York-1954: Suburban Homes in Residential Neighborhood

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

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Suburban Homes in Residential Neighborhood — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban neighborhood in Hicksville, New York. The camera pans across newly constructed single-family homes with gray and light wood siding, white-trimmed windows, and stone foundations. Two classic 1950s automobiles, including a dark sedan, are parked on the unpaved street. Bare trees suggest late autumn or early spring, and the footage exhibits natural film grain and color fading typical of Super 8 home movies. The scene evokes a sense of postwar American suburban development and mid-century domestic life.

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: 123368245

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 U.S. suburban development scenes, residential cutaways, and documentary context around postwar domestic landscapes.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century single-family houses, stone foundations, unpaved ground, bare trees, utility poles, and rounded 1950s automobiles.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the street from a casual home-movie viewpoint, lingering on houses and parked cars without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include gray and wood-sided houses, white-trimmed windows, stone foundations, bare trees, utility poles, dirt ground, and dark parked sedans.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, transition, or memory beat for mid-century suburban housing and neighborhood change.
Historical context: The clip visually suggests organized postwar residential expansion while avoiding claims beyond the observed houses, cars, road surface, and setting metadata.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but exterior homes and cars may still require context review for property, copyright, and editorial-use considerations.
Research search match: Searches may include 1954 Hicksville New York home movie, 1950s suburban houses, 8mm residential street, and postwar neighborhood footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Hicksville material, then 1954 Long Island residential footage, then broader 1950s suburb, housing, and automobile scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville, New York home-movie frame showing a gray house, bare trees, and a dark mid-century sedan parked near the street. — A gray suburban house and dark sedan appear beside bare trees and rough ground.

1954 Hicksville residential view with a gray house, utility pole, bare trees, and the rear of a dark 1950s car at right. — The camera pans past a gray house, a utility pole, and a parked car edge.

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame showing adjacent gray and light wood-sided houses, a utility pole, and leafless trees. — Adjacent single-story houses fill the frame as the pan continues across the street.

1954 Hicksville residential frame with a light wood-sided house, gray neighboring house, utility pole, and winter-bare trees. — A light wood-sided home and gray neighboring house appear against bare trees.

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