Hicksville New York-1957: Woman Tending To Her Garden Wearing A Blue Dress

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

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Woman Tending To Her Garden Wearing A Blue Dress — Clip Details

A woman in a light blue dress and white hat tends to her garden in HICKSVILLE NEW YORK-1957. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures her bending over plants with white gloves, carefully working the soil. The scene features a suburban backyard with a low concrete border, green foliage, and a chain-link fence. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and natural daylight, evoking a nostalgic 1950s domestic moment. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 123447323

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s suburban home-movie footage suited to requests for domestic gardening, backyard life, and women's everyday activity in postwar Long Island.
Period detail: The light blue dress, white hat, gloves, chain-link fence, and small planted bed may show mid-century suburban gardening habits.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment of a woman bending over plants and tending soil from a nearby family-camera perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a pale blue dress, white hat, white gloves, green plants, bare soil, a low concrete border, and a chain-link fence.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, slight handheld variation, and daylight color that give the scene recognizable home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, memory beat, or domestic-life insert within a sequence about 1950s homes, gardens, or family routines.
Historical context: The scene suggests everyday suburban yard work in Hicksville, New York, without showing identifiable landmarks or public events.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or audible music are indicated, and copyright clearance is separate from personal rights.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s 8mm woman gardening, Hicksville New York home movie, suburban backyard garden, and vintage domestic yard work.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Hicksville or 1957 family footage, then with other home-garden and suburban domestic scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1957 Hicksville, New York home-movie footage, a woman in a pale blue dress and white hat bends toward garden plants near a chain-link fence. — Woman in a blue dress tends a backyard garden bed beside a chain-link fence.

The woman remains bent over the backyard garden, with her pale blue dress, white hat, gloves, plants, soil, and fence visible. — A gloved woman bends low while working among garden plants.

Seen from behind, the woman in a pale blue dress and white hat works close to a planted bed in the Hicksville backyard. — Rear view of the woman tending the garden from a close home-movie angle.

The woman reaches into the garden bed while wearing a pale blue dress, white hat, and gloves, with a chain-link fence behind her. — The woman reaches toward the plants as the camera holds on the backyard garden.

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