Hicksville New York-1954: Blue Car Parked Next To Grey Building On A Cloudy Day

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

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Blue Car Parked Next To Grey Building On A Cloudy Day — Clip Details

Hicksville, New York - 1954: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a suburban house with grey shingle siding and dark wood trim, surrounded by tall pine trees on a cloudy day. The camera pans slowly to the right, revealing a small white shed and a classic purple 1950s sedan parked on the dirt driveway. The footage shows natural film grain and slight color fading, characteristic of mid-century home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse into postwar American domestic life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123371981

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: 1950s Hicksville home-movie footage suited to requests for postwar suburban exteriors, domestic establishing shots, or period residential cutaways.
Period detail: The grey shingle siding, simple one-story house form, dirt driveway, small shed, and rounded 1950s sedan may show mid-century suburban Long Island residential development.
Home-movie behavior: The slow pan reads as an unstaged home-movie record of a house, yard, and driveway rather than a formal real-estate or news view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grey house, dark trim, white shed, tall pine trees, dirt driveway, cloudy sky, and a blue-purple parked sedan.
Film character: The 8mm color scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, and slight handheld drift consistent with mid-century amateur film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief exterior insert, suburban transition, domestic memory beat, or visual bridge into 1950s residential life.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for mid-century suburban housing and car-centered domestic space without showing identifiable residents or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are visible or indicated, but house and vehicle identification should still be reviewed for property and copyright context.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s Long Island home movie, Hicksville suburban house, vintage 8mm residential exterior, and parked 1950s car driveway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1954 Hicksville exteriors, then broader 1950s suburban housing or family-home footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame showing a grey shingle house with dark trim among tall trees. — Grey suburban house seen through trees at the start of the pan.

The pan reveals more of the Hicksville house exterior with a small white shed beyond the trees. — House exterior with shed beginning to appear at right.

1954 home-movie frame showing the house side, white shed, dirt driveway, and part of a parked car. — The pan continues past the house toward the shed and driveway.

Final 1954 Hicksville frame with the suburban house, shed, trees, and a blue-purple 1950s sedan parked at right. — Parked sedan appears beside the house and shed near the end of the shot.

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