Hicksville New York-1957: Large Lake Partially Covered By Ice Surrounded By Trees

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

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Large Lake Partially Covered By Ice Surrounded By Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a serene winter landscape at a large lake partially covered in ice. Bare trees frame the view, with a snow-dusted hillside and dense forest in the distance under a cloudy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, evoking a nostalgic, quiet atmosphere. The camera remains steady, offering a contemplative view of nature in winter, likely filmed from a porch or window. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about mid-century American life.

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: 123447194

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: 1950s 8mm winter lake footage for documentary inserts, seasonal transitions, or quiet mid-century landscape context.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1957 home-movie view in Hicksville, New York, with bare trees, distant wooded hills, and a partially iced lake as visible seasonal clues.
Home-movie behavior: The steady viewpoint feels like an unstaged family-film observation of winter scenery from a sheltered spot near the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark tree trunks, leafless branches, a broad lake surface, ice or pale water, distant wooded shoreline, low hills, and cloudy sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, blue color shift, visible grain, frame-edge darkness, and steady exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter establishing insert, reflective cutaway, reel transition, or quiet memory beat between family scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents a mid-century leisure or residential view of a cold lake landscape without visible people, vehicles, signage, or built landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private interiors are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property implications separately.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1950s 8mm winter lake footage, Hicksville New York home movie landscape, icy lake trees, or mid-century nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Hicksville or 1957 New York material, then broader winter lake and bare-tree landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Hicksville, New York 8mm frame showing bare trees, a cold lake surface, distant woods, and low hills under cloudy sky. — Bare trees and a dark shoreline frame a winter lake view.

1957 Hicksville, New York lake view with a central dark tree trunk, pale icy water, bare branches, and a wooded hillside. — A tree trunk splits the wintry lake and hillside view.

1957 Hicksville, New York frame with a leafless lakeside tree, partially iced water, dark woods, and a low winter hillside. — A leafless tree stands at the edge of the winter lake.

1957 Hicksville, New York 8mm frame showing a bare tree near the water, an icy lake band, forested shoreline, and winter sky. — Bare branches frame the final view across the partially iced lake.

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