Albany New York-1955: View Of A White House With Green Grass On A Bright Sunny Day

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit

Fills mid-1950s American suburban domestic establishing shots for documentary, educational, or editorial productions covering postwar home life in the Northeast.

Period detail

White clapboard siding, teal-painted shutters and metal porch railings, and clipped spherical foundation shrubs are consistent with mid-1950s Northeast suburban residential style.

Home-movie behavior

The slow deliberate pan across the front yard suggests the filmer intended to document the house itself — a proud record of property, lawn, and garden at their summer best.

What appears in frame

White clapboard house exterior, teal shutters on double-hung windows, front porch steps with teal metal railing, spherical trimmed evergreen shrubs, flower bed with red and orange-yellow blooms, manicured green lawn.

Film character

Vivid but slightly shifted color saturation and fine grain give the footage the warm reversal-film palette typical of 8mm color stock from the mid-1950s.

Edit role

Works as a period establishing shot or cutaway to anchor a 1950s suburban domestic sequence, or as a memory-beat dissolve before interior home footage.

Historical context

The immaculate lawn, tidy foundation plantings, and painted clapboard facade reflect the postwar suburban homeownership culture that defined mid-century American middle-class aspiration.

Research note

No identifiable people appear in any frame; the subject is a residential exterior — confirm licensing terms cover editorial use of private residential property before broadcast.

Research search match

1950s suburban American house exterior, mid-century color home movie, Albany New York residential neighborhood, postwar domestic 8mm footage.

Archive pairing path

Pair first with other clips from the same reel or Albany mid-1950s home movies; then with Northeast suburban exterior footage from the decade; then with postwar American domestic life montage material.