Russell New Zealand-1980: Historic Places Trust Sign With Opening Hours on a White Picket Fence

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit

This clip serves requests for a legible, period-correct establishing insert for Pompallier House or Bay of Islands heritage tourism around 1980.

Period detail

Hand-lettered Historic Places Trust board with $1 adult and 50c child admission, a 'husband, wife and children' family ticket, and the muted colour of Super 8 reversal stock.

Home-movie behavior

A visitor stopped at the gate to film the notice as a record of where they were, the way travellers often used signs as chapter cards in their holiday films.

What appears in frame

A white Trust notice with a round emblem on top, the house name in large capitals, opening hours and prices, a white picket fence, a pointed gatepost and a dark clipped hedge.

Film character

Fine Super 8 grain, cream whites with a faint green tint, crushed shadows in the hedge and a gentle handheld sway give the shot the texture of projected reversal film.

Edit role

Works as an establishing insert or title card before footage of the house, or as a short cutaway in a Bay of Islands sequence.

Historical context

The board shows the Historic Places Trust in charge of Pompallier House and prices in decimal currency, both arrangements that began in 1967.

Research note

No people appear, but the Trust's name, emblem and sign design may carry organisational or design rights, so producers should check use of the heritage property's branding separately from the film's copyright.

Research search match

Pompallier House sign Super 8, New Zealand Historic Places Trust circa 1980, Russell Bay of Islands home movie, heritage admission prices sign.

Archive pairing path

Pair first with the Waitangi Treaty House grounds clip from this reel, then with other circa 1980 Bay of Islands and Northland material, then with signs from the same trip such as Tane Mahuta, Agrodome and Fairy Springs.