Hicksville New York-1954: Houses On The Prairie

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

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Houses On The Prairie — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a row of newly constructed white houses in Hicksville, New York, set against a backdrop of bare trees and muddy ground. The camera pans slowly across the modest suburban development, revealing unpaved lots and early-stage landscaping. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and a slightly faded quality, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American suburban expansion. The scene is devoid of people, emphasizing the quiet, transitional state of the 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: 123368660

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 American suburbia edits needing archival home-movie footage of new residential construction and quiet postwar neighborhood expansion.
Period detail: The small white houses, bare trees, muddy lots and unfinished roads support a mid-1950s suburban development reading in Hicksville, New York.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the empty row of houses from a casual roadside position, giving the clip the unplanned feel of a family record of a changing neighborhood.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white single-story houses, bare deciduous trees, muddy ground, tire-rutted paths, patches of snow and open undeveloped lots.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, blue-shifted color, visible grain, gate edges and slight handheld movement that mark it as original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, transition or establishing memory beat for suburban growth, new housing, relocation or mid-century domestic settings.
Historical context: The footage visually places modest new houses in a rough, still-unfinished landscape, suggesting a neighborhood between construction and occupation.
Research note: No people, faces, logos or brands are visible, but the houses may involve private property considerations separate from copyright review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s Hicksville New York houses, 8mm suburban development footage, postwar housing lots and vintage home movie neighborhood scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Hicksville material, then with 1954 New York suburb footage, then with broader postwar housing and suburban construction clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville, New York home-movie frame showing white newly built houses, muddy lots and leafless trees. — White houses stand along an unfinished muddy lot with bare trees behind them.

1954 Hicksville, New York frame with several white houses aligned beside an unpaved muddy road and winter trees. — A row of new white houses recedes beside a muddy road and leafless trees.

1954 Hicksville, New York home-movie view of houses at the edge of a muddy roadway with bare trees and open lots. — The camera pans past house fronts toward an open muddy roadway in the development.

1954 Hicksville, New York frame showing the edge of white houses beside muddy ruts, snow patches and leafless trees. — White houses border a rough muddy roadway with snow patches and winter trees.

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