New Zealand-1982: Mountains Across A Lake On A Bright But Cloudy Day

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Year1982
Decade1980s
LocationNew Zealand
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1982 New Zealand

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Mountains Across A Lake On A Bright But Cloudy Day — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from New Zealand in 1982, capturing a scenic landscape of mountains surrounding a calm lake under a bright but cloudy sky. The film shows natural light filtering through scattered clouds, with lush green hillsides and distant peaks. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus typical of 1980s amateur film. The camera appears to be handheld, offering a gentle panoramic view of the tranquil waters and rolling terrain, evoking a nostalgic, personal travel memory.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122843230

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: 1982 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1980s New Zealand home-movie landscape footage for documentary inserts, travel-memory sequences, or archive-led scene setting around lakes and mountain terrain.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm-era travel footage with soft focus, faded color, and handheld framing, while visible landscape details do not identify a specific town or landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, pausing on broad lake and mountain views rather than staged action or identifiable people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake, green hillsides, distant mountain ridges, cloudy blue sky, shoreline vegetation, small light buildings, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has pronounced 8mm grain, soft registration, mild color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that support its home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic cutaway, travel transition, memory beat, or quiet establishing insert for a New Zealand journey.
Historical context: The clip reflects amateur travel filming of natural scenery in New Zealand, emphasizing landscape observation rather than social activity or documented events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright clearance remains separate from location, property, or collection permissions.
Research search match: Useful matches include 1982 New Zealand 8mm lake mountains, Super 8 travel landscape, cloudy mountain lake home movie, and vintage New Zealand scenery footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1982 New Zealand travel views, then broader archive footage of mountain lakes and road-trip landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1982 New Zealand 8mm frame showing mountains, a lake, green valley ground, and bright clouds from a visitor viewpoint. — Mountains rise beyond a lake and green valley under broken cloud.

1982 New Zealand travel frame with a calm lake, layered hills, distant peaks, and bright cloud cover within visible 8mm frame edges. — A calm lake sits below layered hills and distant peaks in cloudy daylight.

1982 New Zealand 8mm frame showing a broad lake, wooded foreground, sloping hills, and distant mountain silhouettes under overcast light. — Shoreline trees frame a wide lake with hills and distant mountain ridges.

1982 New Zealand home-movie frame showing lake water, a hillside with small light structures, distant mountains, and bright cloud cover. — Lake water stretches toward a hillside and distant ridges beneath layered clouds.

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