Hicksville New York-1954: Line Of New Small Houses Built On A Unpaved Street

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

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Line Of New Small Houses Built On A Unpaved Street — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a row of newly constructed small houses in Hicksville, New York. The footage shows white and light-colored homes with simple gabled roofs and rectangular windows, set on unpaved lots with bare trees and disturbed earth. The camera pans slowly across the developing neighborhood, revealing the early stages of suburban expansion. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly faded quality, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American residential scene.

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: 123368611

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 1950s suburban development requests needing brief editorial cutaways of newly built residential streets in Hicksville, New York.
Period detail: The small gabled houses, bare lots, young landscaping, and unpaved ground support the 1954 suburban construction setting described in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, panning past nearby houses as a resident or visitor records a developing neighborhood.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale single-story houses, simple windows, gabled roofs, bare deciduous trees, rough earth, stone edging, and open yards.
Film character: The 8mm image shows saturated blue shadows, visible grain, uneven exposure, soft focus, and handheld framing that preserve the physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short establishing insert, transition, or memory beat for postwar suburban growth and new-home construction.
Historical context: The footage visually situates modest detached homes within a developing residential landscape, with raw lots and winter trees suggesting recent construction.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are evident, but residential exteriors and location claims should still be reviewed for copyright, property, and contextual use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s Hicksville home movies, Long Island new houses, unpaved suburban streets, and 8mm residential development footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1954 Hicksville material, then broader clips of Long Island suburbs, new houses, or mid-century neighborhood construction.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame showing a pale new house, bare trees, rough earth, and neighboring residential structures. — A newly built pale house stands among bare trees and unfinished ground.

1954 Hicksville frame with a light-colored gabled house, dark side addition, bare trees, and another small house in the background. — The pan passes a light-colored house with bare trees in the yard.

1954 Hicksville frame showing a small pale gabled house beyond uneven ground, with bare trees and adjacent houses nearby. — A modest new house appears beyond unfinished ground and leafless trees.

1954 Hicksville frame of a pale house on an unfinished lot, with bare trees, neighboring houses, and visible 8mm frame borders. — The final view holds on a pale house set in a raw suburban yard.

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