Hicksville New York-1954: Two Families Of Canada Geese Swimming Near Each Other

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

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Two Families Of Canada Geese Swimming Near Each Other — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures two families of Canada geese swimming together on a vibrant blue pond. The geese, including adult parents and their goslings, glide across the water near a lush green shoreline. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This natural scene offers authentic wildlife footage ideal for documentaries, nature projects, or historical storytelling.

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: 123372575

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 8mm wildlife home-movie footage suited to documentary cutaways, nature-history inserts, or period memory sequences needing Canada geese on a pond.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century amateur color 8mm filming through its soft focus, saturated blue water, and brief handheld framing rather than visible buildings or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged family-film observation of geese and goslings moving across open water near a grassy bank.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include Canada geese, small goslings, rippled blue pond water, a green shoreline, soft focus, film grain, and contact-sheet frame edges.
Film character: The footage has a physical 8mm look with pronounced grain, saturated color shifts, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld home-movie framing.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short wildlife insert, pastoral transition, seasonal cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1950s Long Island reel.
Historical context: The scene offers a modest view of suburban or local pond wildlife near Hicksville, New York, without visible people, buildings, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location context, and wildlife identification should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s 8mm Canada geese, Hicksville New York pond footage, geese with goslings home movie, and vintage wildlife film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Hicksville or 1954 material, then related pond, birds, spring wildlife, or family home-movie nature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville, New York 8mm frame showing two groups of Canada geese with goslings on a vivid blue pond near grass. — Canada geese and goslings move across the pond near a grassy bank.

1954 Hicksville, New York frame with Canada geese and goslings spaced across a blue pond, with shoreline grass at the upper right. — Separate goose families drift across open water beside the grassy shore.

1954 Hicksville, New York 8mm frame showing geese and goslings on saturated blue water beneath a green bank. — Adult geese and goslings cross the pond in a soft, grainy 8mm view.

1954 Hicksville, New York frame showing a small family of Canada geese on a blue pond, with grass along the upper edge. — A goose family continues across the pond as the shoreline stays in the background.

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