Hicksville New York-1954: 1940s Or 1950s Automobile Parked On Dirt Road In

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

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1940s Or 1950s Automobile Parked On Dirt Road In — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban scene in Hicksville, New York. A classic 1940s or 1950s automobile is parked on a dirt road in front of a modest house surrounded by dense trees. The footage shows a single-story home with dark siding and white trim, a small white shed, and a wooded backdrop. The camera remains mostly static, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American life with authentic film grain and color saturation.

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: 123372027

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 New York establishing material, especially documentary or education edits needing a quiet home-movie view of roadside housing and a parked car.
Period detail: The dark single-story house, detached shed, dirt road, wooded lot, and rounded mid-century automobile appear consistent with a 1940s or 1950s residential setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel, observing a parked car and nearby houses from a still or lightly handheld position rather than presenting a planned scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark-sided house with white trim, a small white shed, tall trees, a dirt road or yard, a parked dark automobile, and simple residential outbuildings.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, saturated greens, gate edges, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, suburban memory beat, roadside cutaway, or transition into material about mid-century Long Island domestic life.
Historical context: The footage places modest residential construction and automobile use within a wooded suburban environment, without showing identifiable people or public activity.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but the house and automobile should be reviewed for property, copyright, and contextual use considerations before publication.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1954 Hicksville New York home movie, 1950s suburban house, 8mm parked automobile, wooded residential road, or mid-century Long Island exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1954 Hicksville or Long Island residential footage, and then with broader 1950s suburb and automobile scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville, New York home-movie frame showing a dark-sided house, small white shed, tall trees, and a parked mid-century car. — A parked dark automobile sits near a modest wooded residential property.

1954 Hicksville home-movie view of a wooded lot with a single-story house, detached white shed, and parked dark automobile. — The camera holds on a wooded house lot with a parked car at the roadside.

1954 Hicksville frame showing a dark parked automobile with an open door near wooded houses and a small white shed. — A car door appears open beside the parked automobile on the wooded property.

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame with a closer view of a dark-sided house, white trim, trees, and a small outbuilding behind it. — The final view shifts closer to the side of the house and wooded yard.

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