New Zealand-1982: A Couple Of Different Views Of A Lake In The Mountains With

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

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A Couple Of Different Views Of A Lake In The Mountains With — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1982 capturing a serene lake nestled between towering, forested mountains in New Zealand. The clip shows a slow pan across the dramatic landscape, with deep blue water reflecting the rugged peaks under a pale sky. A distinct contrail streaks across the upper right, adding a touch of motion. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: rich color saturation, visible grain, and slight vignetting, evoking a nostalgic, personal travel memory.

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: 122845050

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

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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: Useful for 1980s New Zealand travel, landscape, nature, or personal-tourism sequences needing real 8mm mountain lake footage.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, saturated blues, soft focus, and handheld framing support a 1982 home-movie travel context without visible urban or social era markers.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects a visitor-shot scenic pan, pausing on broad views of water, forested slopes, and steep mountain walls rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake, dark forested shorelines, steep rocky mountains, pale sky, distant ridges, film gate edges, and a diagonal sky streak.
Film character: The footage has visible grain, rich but shifted color, slight vignetting, soft exposure, and handheld framing that read as original small-gauge travel film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a scenic insert, travel transition, establishing cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a New Zealand or mountain landscape sequence.
Historical context: The views show leisure travel attention to dramatic natural scenery in New Zealand, with no people, vehicles, buildings, or readable signs visible in the frames.
Research note: No faces, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still confirm copyright status and any location-specific use requirements before publication.
Research search match: Search matches include 1982 8mm New Zealand lake mountains, vintage home movie fjord landscape, Super 8 mountain water view, and archival travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1982 New Zealand landscapes, and then with broader vintage mountain lake or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1982 8mm New Zealand travel frame showing a calm lake between forested mountain slopes and distant rocky peaks. — A wide mountain lake view framed by dark wooded slopes and distant cliffs.

1982 8mm New Zealand frame of blue water, dark forested landforms, and high mountain walls under a pale sky. — The view shifts across blue water toward steep, shadowed mountain walls.

1982 8mm New Zealand travel frame showing a tighter pan view across lake water and steep forested mountains. — A tighter view across the lake emphasizes the steep slopes and distant ridgeline.

1982 8mm New Zealand frame of a calm lake bordered by shadowed cliffs and layered mountain ridges. — Calm water sits below dark cliffs and layered mountain ridges in the final frame.

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