Albany New York-1955: A Car Driving Through Flooded Neighborhood Streets

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationAlbany, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Car Driving Through Flooded Neighborhood Streets — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban neighborhood in Albany, New York, still recovering from a flood. A dark sedan slowly drives through deep standing water on a residential street, passing submerged lawns and trees. The scene is overcast, with muted greens and blues dominating the color palette, and the film shows natural grain and slight blurriness typical of Super 8 footage. The camera remains stationary, observing the aftermath of the flood from a distance, conveying a sense of calm resilience in the wake of disaster.

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: 123432155

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1956 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Albany, New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing home-movie footage of flooding, wet residential streets, or storm aftermath in Albany, New York.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-1950s suburban street details, including a dark sedan, utility poles, mature roadside trees, and modest residential buildings.
Home-movie behavior: The stationary camera observes the flooded street from a distance, giving the clip an unstaged neighborhood witness perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include standing floodwater, a dark sedan, wet pavement, trees, utility poles, lawns, and distant residential structures.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, and uneven exposure that support its physical home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or evidence insert for flood aftermath, neighborhood disruption, or mid-century storm recovery.
Historical context: The clip visually documents standing water in a residential area, suggesting local disruption without identifying a specific flood event from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related uses should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s Albany flood footage, 8mm home movie flooded street, vintage car in high water, and residential storm aftermath.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Albany or 1956 material, then other flood, storm, road, and suburban neighborhood scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Albany, New York home-movie frame showing a wet residential street with standing water, trees, utility poles, and a distant dark sedan. — A dark sedan approaches or pauses near deep standing water on a tree-lined residential street.

Albany-area 1950s home-movie view of floodwater across a residential road, with a dark sedan near trees and utility poles. — Standing water covers much of the road as a dark sedan sits or moves slowly near the far side.

Soft 8mm frame of an Albany residential street after flooding, showing reflective water, trees, a dark sedan, and distant buildings. — The flooded roadway reflects the overcast sky while the car remains near the far end of the street.

1950s Albany home-movie frame showing a flooded residential road bordered by trees, with a dark sedan near the far curb. — A quiet flooded neighborhood street is seen from a fixed vantage point as the dark car remains in the distance.

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