Hicksville New York-1954: A Home Setting That Includes A Panoramic View Of The

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

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A Home Setting That Includes A Panoramic View Of The — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban landscape in Hicksville, New York. The camera pans across a grassy yard bordered by dense trees and shrubs, revealing a white house with a red roof partially hidden by foliage. A woman in a light-colored dress appears briefly, tending to the garden. The footage exhibits natural film grain, warm color tones, and the characteristic vignette of an 8mm home movie, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American backyard scene.

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: 123374073

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: 1950s 8mm suburban home-movie footage for productions needing a quiet residential yard or mid-century Long Island domestic setting.
Period detail: The clip may show 1950s suburban landscaping, a modest light-colored house, open grass, shrubs, and informal yard space in Hicksville, New York.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld pan and brief view of a woman near the garden give the scene an unstaged family-film record of everyday home surroundings.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include grass, shrubs, mature trees, a driveway or path, a light-colored house with a red roof, garden growth, and one distant woman.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, slight vignette, and handheld motion that preserve its original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a suburban establishing insert, garden cutaway, transition beat, or memory fragment for mid-century domestic life.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for a quiet residential yard and garden environment without making claims beyond the home-movie view.
Research note: A person and residential exterior appear, so likeness, property, and copyright status should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s Hicksville New York home movie, 8mm suburban yard, Long Island house garden, and vintage residential landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Hicksville 1954 material, then broader 1950s suburban home and garden footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville 8mm frame showing a grassy suburban yard, dense trees, shrubs, and a light-colored house partly hidden by foliage. — A quiet yard with trees, shrubs, and a house partly visible beyond the grass.

1954 Hicksville home-movie frame with lawn, shrubs, tree cover, and a pale house partly screened by branches. — The pan continues across shrubs and lawn toward a house behind the trees.

1954 Hicksville frame showing overgrown shrubs, dry grass, trees, and a light house with a red roof in the background. — Shrubs and dry grass fill the foreground as the house comes further into view.

1954 Hicksville 8mm frame with a suburban house, garden growth, lawn, and a distant woman in a light dress near the yard. — A woman appears briefly near the house and garden at the end of the pan.

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