New Zealand-1981: Small Island in Middle of Blue Lake with Green Fields and Farmland

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Year1981
Decade1980s
LocationNew Zealand
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1981 New Zealand

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Small Island in Middle of Blue Lake with Green Fields... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from New Zealand in 1981, showcasing a serene landscape with a small island in the middle of a vast blue lake. The clip features rolling green hills, farmland, and a quiet village nestled along the shoreline under a cloudy sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural camera movement, capturing a peaceful rural scene with a nostalgic, archival quality.

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: 122836061

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: 1981 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 Zealand 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

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 1981 New Zealand travel or rural landscape sequences needing authentic 8mm lake, island, farmland, and shoreline village material.
Period detail: The frames may show early 1980s visitor-shot scenery, with open fields, modest shoreline settlement patterns, and no visible modern infrastructure dominating the view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational pace of a traveler pausing at a high lookout to record a lake island and surrounding farmland without staging or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue lake, small island, rolling green hills, divided fields, shoreline village buildings, distant ridges, cloud cover, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color drift toward blue-purple tones, exposure variation, and slight handheld movement that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, geographic transition, rural travel cutaway, or memory beat within a New Zealand or lakeside sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a rural lakeside viewpoint in New Zealand, emphasizing landscape, agriculture, and settlement rather than a specific public event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1981 New Zealand 8mm lake island footage, rural farmland by water, vintage travel home movie, and shoreline village landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1981 New Zealand lake or farmland scenes, then broader vintage rural travel landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1981 New Zealand 8mm view from a hillside overlooking a blue lake, green slopes, and distant shoreline fields beneath a cloudy sky. — Hillside view across a lake toward distant farmland and low ridges.

1981 New Zealand 8mm frame showing a small island in a broad lake, with divided green fields and village buildings along the shore. — Small island seen beyond farmland and a shoreline settlement.

Vintage 8mm New Zealand lake view with a dark island across the water, foreground farmland, shoreline road traces, and clouded daylight. — Island across the lake with farmland and shoreline details below.

1981 New Zealand 8mm frame with the small lake island more prominent, open water around it, and hazy farmland and hills in the distance. — Closer lake view isolating the small island against distant farmland.

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