Hicksville New York-1954: Traditional 1950s House with Classic Car

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

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Traditional 1950s House with Classic Car — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a modest single-story house in Hicksville, New York, surrounded by lush green trees. The dark-sided home features white trim, a shingled roof, and a small porch with steps. A wooden plank leans against the house, suggesting recent construction or renovation. In the final frame, a classic 1950s sedan is parked in front of a larger white house, viewed through foliage. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic, authentic 1950s Americana feel.

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: 123372110

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: Useful for 1950s suburban Long Island domestic exterior coverage, especially documentary inserts about postwar housing, family neighborhoods, or everyday home-movie Americana.
Period detail: The modest one-story houses, shingled roofs, white trim, porch steps, and rounded sedan may show mid-1950s residential design and car culture.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds briefly on homes and a parked car from an informal outdoor vantage, giving the clip an unstaged family-record perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark-sided small house, white shutters and door, shingled roof, porch steps, a leaning plank, trees, foliage, and a dark sedan by a white house.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild color fade, slight exposure shifts, and contact-sheet edge density typical of home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, residential cutaway, memory beat, or transition into 1950s suburban family material.
Historical context: The footage documents ordinary residential exteriors in Hicksville, New York, with built surroundings and landscaping presented without staged action or narration.
Research note: Review copyright source status separately from likeness and property concerns, since people are flagged in the clip metadata and residential exteriors are visible.
Research search match: Searches such as 1950s Hicksville home movie, Long Island suburban house exterior, 8mm residential footage, and classic car outside house may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Hicksville or 1954 residential footage, then broader 1950s suburban home and car exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville, New York home-movie frame showing a modest dark-sided house with white shutters, a pale door, trees, and a leaning plank. — A modest single-story house stands among trees, with a plank leaning against the front wall.

1954 Hicksville exterior view of a small residential house with white trim, porch steps, surrounding trees, and a board leaning near the window. — The camera holds on the front of the small house, framed by trees and deep film-edge shadows.

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame with a closer view of the house facade, roofline, white door, dark siding, and a large tree trunk nearby. — A closer angle emphasizes the house facade, front steps, roofline, and wooded yard.

1954 Hicksville frame showing a dark mid-century sedan parked near a white residential house, seen through foreground foliage. — A rounded sedan is parked beside a white house, with branches and trees partially blocking the view.

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