Hicksville New York-1957: Water Flowing Over Dam Structure

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationHicksville, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1954 Hicksville New York

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Water Flowing Over Dam Structure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures water cascading over a stone dam structure in Hicksville, New York. The footage shows turbulent white water flowing over a stepped spillway, with dark stone walls and scattered rocks visible in the frame. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—grainy texture, soft focus, and slightly faded color tones typical of mid-century home recordings. The camera remains steady, focusing on the natural flow of water through a man-made channel, offering a nostalgic glimpse of local infrastructure and natural elements in a suburban setting.

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: 123447170

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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1957 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 editorial or documentary requests needing an archival water-control, dam, spillway, or suburban infrastructure cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show stonework, a simple water channel, and 8mm-era color handling that support the supplied 1957 Hicksville, New York context without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie viewpoint, holding on moving water and stone edges without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white water, dark stone retaining walls, a stepped spillway edge, rocks and rubble, wet channel surfaces, and the contact-sheet borders from the scan.
Film character: The footage carries dense grain, soft focus, dark exposure, slight color fading, and steady amateur framing typical of scanned mid-century 8mm material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, transition, environmental cutaway, or memory beat for water, local infrastructure, or suburban landscape sequences.
Historical context: The view documents a small built watercourse or dam structure in a local landscape, showing how water, stonework, and rough banks appeared in this home-movie record.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any property-location sensitivities for their intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1957 8mm Hicksville New York water dam footage, vintage spillway, stone water channel, suburban infrastructure, and home-movie water flow.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Hicksville or New York material from 1957, then broader 1950s water, dam, creek, or infrastructure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Hicksville 8mm frame showing turbulent water running past dark stonework in a man-made channel. — Water rushes along the stone spillway wall at the start of the clip.

1957 Hicksville home-movie frame with foaming water, dark masonry, and scattered rocks near the channel edge. — Foaming water crosses the frame with rocks and masonry visible at right.

1957 Hicksville 8mm frame showing a wider section of water moving through a stone-lined spillway with rocks nearby. — The camera holds on the spillway as water moves past stonework and loose rocks.

1957 Hicksville frame with turbulent water, a low stone edge, and rubble along the side of the channel. — Rocks and low masonry frame the water near the end of the short shot.

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