New York City-1956: Construction Site Along Riverbank

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 New York City

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Construction Site Along Riverbank — Clip Details

Shot from inside a vehicle in 1956, this vintage 8mm home movie captures a construction site along a riverbank in New York City. The view through the window shows a red barrel, a dirt road, and a stone retaining wall with scattered rocks and debris. A side mirror reflects the passing scenery as the vehicle moves past the rugged, natural landscape. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-century urban development.

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: 124608278

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: New York City, 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: Supports requests for 1950s New York City construction or roadside development footage for documentary inserts, urban-history cutaways, or archival transition shots.
Period detail: The red metal barrels, rough dirt roadway, stone retaining wall, and vehicle-window viewpoint may show mid-century construction or road work conditions along a New York City riverbank.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged passenger viewpoint, with the camera looking through a vehicle window as the roadside work area passes by.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a red barrel, dirt and concrete road surface, stone wall, scattered rocks, debris, vehicle window framing, side mirror, and passing motion blur.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, color fading, gate edges, and motion blur that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief cutaway, travel insert, construction context shot, or memory beat between broader New York City scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests small-scale urban edge construction or maintenance work without identifying a specific project, contractor, or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property or project identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1956 New York City 8mm construction site, riverbank road work home movie, red barrel dirt road, or mid-century urban development footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1956 New York City exteriors, and finally with other construction, road work, riverbank, or urban-development clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 New York City home-movie frame looking through a vehicle window toward a red barrel, dirt road, stone wall, and scattered debris. — A red barrel stands near a rough roadside surface seen through the vehicle window.

1956 New York City frame from inside a moving vehicle, showing a side mirror, window edge, dirt surface, stone wall, and debris. — The vehicle side mirror frames a passing roadside construction area.

Motion-blurred 1956 New York City roadside frame with a red barrel, rough ground, debris, and vehicle-window borders. — Motion blur softens the red barrel and rough ground as the vehicle passes.

1956 New York City vehicle-window frame showing pale roadway, red barrels in the distance, debris, dirt embankment, and dark frame edges. — The view opens onto a pale roadway with red barrels and construction debris beyond.

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