Hicksville New York-1954: House Under Construction with Open Window

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

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House Under Construction with Open Window — Clip Details

HICKSVILLE NEW YORK-1954: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a house under construction, focusing on a window frame set into dark blue siding above a cinder block foundation. Wooden planks and a sawhorse lie on the ground, with the camera slowly moving closer to the open window, revealing the dark interior. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123368901

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 1950s Hicksville home-movie footage for requests needing suburban house construction, residential building details, or domestic postwar-era cutaways.
Period detail: Visible clues may show mid-century residential construction, including dark shingle siding, cinder block foundation, unfinished window trim, sawhorse, and loose wooden planks.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld camera moves in close to construction details, giving an unstaged family-record perspective rather than a formal building survey.
What appears in frame: The clip shows dark exterior siding, open window and door frames, cinder block foundation, wooden planks, a sawhorse, raw trim, dirt ground, and a dim interior view.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, warm color shifts, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, construction cutaway, suburban memory beat, or transition into a sequence about home building or family housing.
Historical context: The footage documents a residential structure under construction in Hicksville, offering visual context for domestic building materials and casual home documentation in the 1950s.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, property, and location-use questions should still be reviewed for the intended production.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under 1950s 8mm Hicksville house construction, suburban home building, unfinished window frame, or vintage residential construction footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Hicksville or 1954 clips, then broader 1950s suburban housing and construction footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame showing an unfinished house exterior with dark siding, an open window, wood planks, and a sawhorse. — Unfinished window opening, planks, and sawhorse outside a house under construction.

1954 Hicksville frame of a house under construction, with a dark doorway, window trim, siding, and wooden boards near the base. — Doorway and window trim on the unfinished exterior as the camera moves closer.

1954 Hicksville close view of an unfinished opening in a house exterior, with dark siding, wood trim, planks, and a sawhorse. — Closer exterior view of the unfinished opening, boards, and construction materials.

1954 Hicksville frame looking into a dim unfinished interior through a narrow opening, with bright trim and dark wall surfaces. — The camera reaches the opening, revealing a dark interior beyond the unfinished frame.

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