Hicksville New York-1954: A Girl Tending to a Garden in a Suburban Backyard

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

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A Girl Tending to a Garden in a Suburban Backyard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1954, this vintage home movie captures a young girl in a light-colored dress tending to a garden in front of a white house with red-striped awnings. The scene unfolds in a sun-drenched suburban backyard, with lush green trees and shrubs surrounding the property. The girl moves through the garden, bending over plants, before walking out of frame. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic 1950s Americana atmosphere. The shot is framed by the dark border of a projector or viewer, enhancing its authentic home movie feel.

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: 123374136

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s suburban home-movie requests needing a short backyard gardening scene in Hicksville, New York.
Period detail: The white house, striped awnings, informal yard planting, and color 8mm look may show midcentury suburban domestic life.
Home-movie behavior: An unstaged female figure tends plants and moves through the yard while the camera observes from a home-movie distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white house, red-striped awnings, garden beds, shrubs, trees, a yard path, and a small figure near the plants.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, and contact-frame borders that emphasize its physical-film origin.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief insert, seasonal domestic cutaway, suburban transition, or memory beat in a family-history sequence.
Historical context: The scene places gardening and yard care within a postwar Long Island residential setting without identifying the household or occupants.
Research note: A person and residential exterior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed in addition to any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1954 Hicksville home movie, 1950s suburban backyard, 8mm garden scene, and Long Island family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Hicksville 1954 material, then broader 1950s suburban gardening or family-home scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 Hicksville backyard view with a female figure near shrubs, a white house, striped awnings, and sunlit garden beds. — A figure works near the plants in a suburban yard beside a white house with striped awnings.

1954 Hicksville suburban backyard with a white house, red-striped awnings, shrubs, trees, and sparse grass in bright sun. — The backyard garden and house exterior fill the frame after the figure moves out of view.

A 1954 Hicksville backyard view shows the side of a white house, garden beds, shrubs, trees, and open yard space. — The camera holds on the garden and trees, with the house partly cropped at the left edge.

The closing 1954 Hicksville frame shows trees, shrubs, garden beds, open ground, and a partial yard structure at right. — Trees and garden plantings dominate the final view of the suburban backyard.

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