Hicksville New York-1954: House Construction Happening Here

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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 Happening Here — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a house under construction in Hicksville, New York. The footage shows a single-story home with exposed wooden framing and a partially completed roof, surrounded by large piles of dirt. Bare trees in the background suggest late autumn or early spring. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic mid-century Americana footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 123369454

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 Long Island housing, homebuilding, or postwar neighborhood-development sequences in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The single-story wood-frame house, exposed sheathing, partially shingled roof, and bare trees may show mid-century residential construction in Hicksville, New York.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a nearby outdoor vantage point, giving the scene the plain, unstaged feel of a family record of a house being built.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a low house under construction, exposed wood walls, roof shingles, window openings, dirt piles, bare trees, and adjacent structures.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, dense grain, warm color shift, and slight handheld framing that preserve the texture of original home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, construction cutaway, suburban growth transition, or memory beat between family scenes.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for mid-century residential building practices without showing workers, occupants, signage, or street identifiers.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but the identifiable residential exterior and underlying film copyright should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1954 8mm Hicksville house construction, 1950s Long Island suburb building, or vintage home movie residential development.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Hicksville or 1954 material, then broader 1950s suburban construction footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville, New York home-movie frame showing a low house under construction with exposed wood siding, windows, roof work, and dirt piles. — A partially built single-story house sits behind mounds of excavated soil.

The Hicksville construction view continues, with a partially shingled roof, exposed wall sheathing, window frames, and earth piled across the foreground. — The camera holds on the roof and front wall of the house under construction.

A side portion of the Hicksville house shows unfinished exterior walls, a nearly covered roof plane, window openings, and construction soil in front. — A side angle shows the unfinished exterior and roofline of the house.

The final frame shows the end of the Hicksville house under construction, with exposed wall surfaces, nearby excavation, bare trees, and a neighboring building. — The view shifts to the end wall, showing the construction site and surrounding yard.

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