New Zealand-1982: Forest Valley and Snow-Capped Mountain Landscape

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Forest Valley and Snow-Capped Mountain Landscape — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from New Zealand in 1982, capturing a scenic mountain landscape. The clip opens with a lush green forested valley, viewed through a natural frame, with a snow-capped peak visible in the distance. As the camera moves, the perspective shifts to reveal a dramatic mountain range with steep slopes and a glacial lake in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The sequence transitions from dense forest to open water and towering peaks, showcasing the raw beauty of New Zealand's wilderness.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122844541

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

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: Supports 1980s documentary or educational requests for New Zealand wilderness, forested valleys, snow-capped mountains, and glacial landscape atmosphere from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames show no dated signs or built features, so the 1982 period comes from clip metadata rather than visible clothing, vehicles, signage, or architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld framing and brief scenic pans suggest a traveler or family filmmaker recording dramatic mountain scenery from overlook and lakeside viewpoints.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dense native-looking forest, steep shadowed valley walls, distant snow-capped peaks, pale sky, rocky mountain slopes, shoreline vegetation, and open water.
Film character: The clip has an 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, color shift, and handheld motion that preserve the feel of a physical film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a landscape insert, travel transition, wilderness cutaway, or reflective memory beat between scenes about New Zealand journeys or mountain environments.
Historical context: The footage documents scenic visitor attention to New Zealand mountain and lake landscapes without showing people, buildings, transport, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any landscape-access restrictions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1980s New Zealand 8mm mountain landscape, home movie forest valley, snow-capped peaks, glacial lake, and vintage travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1982 New Zealand landscapes, then broader 1980s home-movie mountain, forest, lake, or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1982 New Zealand 8mm frame showing a forested valley, dark foreground trees, and a distant snow-capped peak under a pale sky. — A distant snowy peak appears beyond a shadowed, forested valley.

1982 New Zealand 8mm frame with a snow-capped mountain centered between shadowed forest slopes and overhanging branches. — A snowy mountain ridge is framed by dark valley slopes and trees.

1982 New Zealand 8mm frame showing a distant snowy mountain partly framed by shadowed valley sides and soft, faded sky. — The mountain peak sits low between dark valley walls in a soft home-movie frame.

1982 New Zealand 8mm frame showing a steep rocky mountain, forested shoreline, open water, and distant snowy peaks under blue sky. — A steep mountain wall rises above water and low shoreline vegetation.

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