New Zealand-1982: Filming The Side Of A Mountain From A Lake Bed

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

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Filming The Side Of A Mountain From A Lake Bed — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from New Zealand in 1982, capturing a scenic aerial view of a lush, green mountain slope descending to a calm lake. The film shows a slow pan across the rugged terrain, revealing dense forest and a prominent waterfall cascading down the cliff face. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, with a dark border framing the image. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of New Zealand's natural beauty, ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122845156

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 New Zealand archive requests needing scenic home-movie nature footage for documentary inserts, travel context, or landscape memory sequences.
Period detail: The frames may show early-1980s amateur travel filming through their 8mm color stock, soft focus, and faded green-blue mountain tones.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, holding on a mountainside from across water rather than staging a formal scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include forested mountain slopes, pale rock scars, waterfall traces, lake edge, dark film borders, and handheld pan framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows visible grain, color fading, soft contrast, slight motion blur, and frame-edge darkness that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief landscape cutaway, travel transition, exterior establishing insert, or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The footage documents a tourist or family-camera view of New Zealand mountain scenery without identifying a specific landmark from the visible frames.
Research note: People are flagged in the clip metadata, so likeness review is advised even though these stills emphasize landscape; copyright and location/property issues should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1982 New Zealand 8mm mountain lake footage, Super 8 waterfall landscape, and vintage home movie alpine scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1982 New Zealand travel footage, then broader home-movie mountain, lake, and waterfall scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

New Zealand 1982 8mm frame showing a green mountainside with exposed rock patches and soft faded color. — Forested mountain slope seen across the frame with pale exposed rock areas.

New Zealand 1982 8mm view of a rugged green mountainside with pale cliff streaks and heavy edge shadow. — A rugged mountainside fills the frame, marked by pale rock and dense vegetation.

New Zealand 1982 8mm frame of a forested slope dropping toward a lake, with pale rock lines and faded color. — The slope descends toward the lower frame where the lake edge begins to appear.

New Zealand 1982 8mm frame showing a narrow waterfall running down a green cliff to the lake below. — A narrow waterfall runs down the forested cliff toward the lake at the bottom of frame.

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