Hicksville New York-1954: House Under Construction in Suburban Woods

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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 in Suburban Woods — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban scene in Hicksville, New York. The footage begins with a view of a white house partially obscured by bare trees, then pans across a wooded area with autumnal foliage. A new house under construction appears, surrounded by mounds of dirt, showcasing mid-century residential development. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, intimate feel, offering a glimpse into postwar American life and home building.

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: 123369417

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: Supports archival requests for 1950s Long Island suburban development, postwar housing cutaways, and quiet home-movie views of residential construction.
Period detail: The bare trees, modest detached houses, exposed framing or siding, and dirt piles may show mid-century suburban building conditions in Hicksville, New York.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a nearby yard or window, panning slowly across woods and construction without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible details include leafless trees, a white house edge, wooded lots, a small house under construction, low rooflines, window openings, and mounded soil.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, handheld framing, and contact-sheet exposure variation that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, transition, or memory beat for postwar home building, suburban expansion, or neighborhood change.
Historical context: The clip visually places residential construction beside wooded land, suggesting the edge between older natural lots and new suburban housing.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but the houses and construction site should still be reviewed for property and copyright considerations.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1954 Hicksville home construction, 1950s Long Island suburb, 8mm house under construction, and wooded suburban lot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Hicksville family footage, then same 1954 Long Island material, then broader 1950s suburban housing and construction scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame showing the edge of a white house behind leafless trees and brush. — A white house appears at the edge of a wooded suburban lot.

Wooded Hicksville lot in 1954 with leafless trees, brush, and open ground near residential construction. — The camera pans across leafless trees and brush in the suburban lot.

1954 Hicksville frame showing a partially built house near tall trees with mounded soil in front. — A house under construction comes into view beside the trees.

House construction in Hicksville, New York, with visible windows, roof, bare trees, and excavated soil in the foreground. — The new house is framed with windows, roofline, and dirt piles in front.

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