Hicksville New York-1955: Decorated Christmas Tree With Presents And Tinsel

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationHicksville, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1954 Hicksville New York

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Decorated Christmas Tree With Presents And Tinsel — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Hicksville, New York, 1955, captures a beautifully decorated Christmas tree adorned with colorful ornaments, silver tinsel, and dangling icicle strands. The camera slowly pans downward, revealing wrapped presents beneath the tree, including a blue gift and a red pail, all set against a dark background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and a nostalgic holiday atmosphere, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century American Christmas traditions.

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: 123386646

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 1038 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: rockefeller center rockettes, baby grag, sylvia,mom,jack,stuart,robert,toni
Reel-level year note: 1955
Reel-level location note: new york city
Date: 1955 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 American holiday-life requests needing authentic 8mm Christmas tree and gift cutaways for documentary, museum, education, or period montage use.
Period detail: Visible period clues include heavy silver tinsel, dangling icicle strands, glass-like ornaments, wrapped presents, and a dark indoor display consistent with mid-century home Christmas decor.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie look at a decorated family Christmas tree, focusing on ornaments and presents rather than posed people.
What appears in frame: The frames show evergreen branches, silver tinsel, hanging ornaments, icicle strands, wrapped gifts, a red pail-like object, and a small blue decorative figure or gift.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, high-contrast shadows, saturated holiday colors, and slight handheld framing that support its archival texture.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a holiday insert, nostalgic memory beat, seasonal transition, or detail cutaway within a mid-century family-life sequence.
Historical context: The imagery reflects domestic Christmas display practices in a 1950s American home setting, with attention on ornamentation and gifts rather than people or ceremony.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but users should still assess copyright status and any property or decoration concerns for their use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s 8mm Christmas tree footage, Hicksville New York holiday home movie, vintage tinsel ornaments, and wrapped presents under tree.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Hicksville or 1955 family footage, then broader 1950s Christmas, interiors, gifts, and holiday decor material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Hicksville home-movie frame showing a Christmas tree covered with silver tinsel, hanging icicle strands, and colorful ornaments. — Close view of a tinsel-covered Christmas tree with ornaments near the upper branches.

1955 Hicksville frame of a decorated Christmas tree with dense tinsel, colorful ornaments, and lower holiday objects partly visible. — The camera view moves lower on the tree, revealing more ornaments and holiday decorations.

1955 Hicksville home-movie frame showing the lower Christmas tree with tinsel, a blue decorative object, a red pail-like object, and gifts below. — Lower branches of the Christmas tree appear above presents and small holiday objects.

1955 Hicksville frame showing the tree base, dense tinsel, ornaments, a red pail-like object, and wrapped presents beneath the branches. — Wrapped gifts and small objects sit beneath the decorated Christmas tree at the end of the clip.

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