Hicksville New York-1954: House Construction Site With Foundation And Dirt Piles

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

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House Construction Site With Foundation And Dirt Piles — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a suburban construction site in Hicksville, New York. A white house stands amidst bare trees under a purple-tinged sky, with a new foundation and piles of dirt visible in the foreground. The footage, framed by dark borders, shows a quiet residential development in progress, with a small shed and construction materials scattered around. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, evoking mid-century Americana and the quiet transformation of a neighborhood.

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: 123368518

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 requests needing 1950s suburban development, residential construction, or Long Island home-movie cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century residential expansion through a new foundation, bare lots, simple outbuildings, and detached white houses among leafless trees.
Home-movie behavior: The brief shot has an unstaged neighborhood-observer quality, with the camera lingering on a nearby construction site rather than a posed family scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white house, bare trees, a new foundation wall, dirt piles, scattered lumber, a small shed, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries home-movie texture through visible grain, soft focus, slight color shift toward blue and purple, uneven exposure, and gate-framed edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, transition, or memory beat for suburban growth, housing construction, or postwar domestic landscapes.
Historical context: Within the supplied Hicksville, New York metadata, the scene visually situates residential building activity in a quiet suburban setting during the 1950s.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-release needs should be reviewed separately for the intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1954 Hicksville construction footage, 1950s Long Island suburb, vintage 8mm house foundation, and home-movie residential development.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then Hicksville or 1954 material, then broader 1950s suburb and house-construction footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame showing a white house, bare trees, a foundation wall, and earth piles at a suburban construction site. — A white house stands behind a new foundation and dirt piles at a suburban construction site.

1954 Hicksville frame with a white house behind a foundation wall and large dirt mound, framed by leafless trees and 8mm borders. — The construction site is framed by bare trees, with a white house and foundation visible behind the dirt.

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame showing a suburban lot with a white house, dirt pile, small shed, bare trees, and building materials. — A small shed and scattered materials appear beside the dirt pile and white house.

1954 Hicksville frame showing a residential construction lot with a white house, mound of earth, bare trees, small shed, and stacked lumber. — Lumber and site debris sit at the edge of the lot as the white house remains in view.

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