Hicksville New York-1954: A House Under Renovation With Purple And Wood Siding

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

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A House Under Renovation With Purple And Wood Siding — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a modest single-story house in Hicksville, New York, undergoing exterior renovation. The house features a distinctive two-tone facade with purple lower walls and unpainted wood siding above, surrounded by a messy yard with piles of dirt and construction debris. Bare trees suggest late winter or early spring, and the footage shows the house from multiple angles, revealing ongoing work on the roof and siding. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century suburban life and home improvement.

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: 123369555

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 home-improvement, residential construction, or Long Island neighborhood cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The modest single-story house, bare trees, simple siding, and 8mm color home-movie look support a mid-1950s residential setting in Hicksville, New York.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the house from the yard in an informal, unstaged way, preserving a family-record view of exterior renovation rather than a polished construction record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a single-story house, purple lower siding, exposed wood siding, shuttered windows, bare trees, dirt piles, yard debris, and roof work areas.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, handheld framing, color shift, and contact-sheet edge density that give it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for postwar suburbia, house repair, family property, or mid-century domestic change.
Historical context: The clip shows small-scale residential upkeep or renovation, offering visual context for ordinary suburban property maintenance in the 1950s.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but visible residential property and underlying film copyright should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1954 8mm Hicksville house renovation, 1950s Long Island home movie, suburban exterior repair, and mid-century messy yard footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family or property footage, then with 1954 Hicksville material, then with broader 1950s suburban home renovation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame showing a single-story house under exterior renovation, with purple lower siding, exposed wood above, and yard debris. — Front view of the house under renovation, with purple lower walls and unfinished siding above.

1954 Hicksville frame showing the front facade of a small house with dark shutters, unfinished upper siding, purple lower walls, and winter-bare trees. — Front facade with shuttered windows, exposed wood siding, and a sparse yard during exterior work.

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame showing the side of the house during renovation, with dirt piles in the foreground and exposed siding near the roofline. — Side angle of the house with dirt piles and visible work areas around the roof and siding.

1954 Hicksville frame showing a side view of the renovated house, with purple lower siding, exposed wood, bare trees, and construction debris in the yard. — Side view of the house and yard, showing unfinished exterior surfaces and piles of earth nearby.

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