Queenstown New Zealand-1978: Antlered Red Deer Stag Following a Hind Across Tussock Grassland

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Year1978
Decade1970s
LocationQueenstown, Otago, New Zealand
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1978 · Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand
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What is in this clip

wildlife
red deer
New Zealand high country
animal behaviour
tourism
1970s travel
landscape

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · Open tussock grassland with a strip of green turf below bare, rolling high-country hills
Time and weather: day · sunny
Lighting: Bright natural daylight with side light on the animals
People: 0 · No people visible.
Animals: red deer stag · red deer hind
Objects: tussock grass · antlers
Colors: straw yellow · grass green · slate blue · reddish brown · grey brown
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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The stag walks behind the hind across short green turf among tussock.
The stag lowers his head toward the hind's flank as both move left.
The stag draws alongside the hind, his antlers framed against the hills.
The hind raises her head and looks ahead while the stag stands beside her.

Antlered Red Deer Stag Following a Hind Across Tussock... — Clip Details

Queenstown district, Otago, New Zealand, circa 1978 home movie footage. A large red deer stag with wide, many-tined antlers walks close behind a reddish-brown hind across a patch of green turf ringed by pale tussock grass. The stag noses at the hind as she turns her head to look ahead, with bare rolling high-country hills behind them. Filmed in a single handheld Super 8 shot that pans gently to keep both animals in frame.

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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002368

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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: 1978 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: Queenstown, Otago, 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: This clip answers requests for 1970s colour footage of red deer in South Island tussock country, for natural history, deer farming or Queenstown travel-history productions.
Period detail: The shot has no dated objects, so the circa 1978 date comes from the reel. The faded Super 8 colour and grain may show the era's film stock.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor on holiday filmed the animals from close range, following the stag and hind with a handheld camera to catch them moving.
What appears in frame: A large stag with pale branching antlers, a smaller reddish-brown hind, clumps of golden tussock, a strip of short green turf and bare rolling hills in bluish shade.
Film character: Fine Super 8 grain, gentle softness and slightly muted colour with bluish shadows give the shot a warm, period small-gauge texture.
Edit role: It works as a wildlife insert or cutaway in a New Zealand travel sequence, or as a brief establishing beat for high-country scenes.
Historical context: Red deer were introduced to New Zealand, and the reel places this shot in a Lake Wakatipu deer and goat park on a 1970s tourist trip.
Research note: No people, logos or signs appear in the shot, so copyright in the film is the main question to address. The location may be a privately run animal park.
Research search match: Researchers might search: red deer stag 1970s Super 8, New Zealand deer park home movie, Otago tussock high country vintage film, or Queenstown wildlife archive footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with this reel's shaggy white long-horned goat in tussock and the vintage lake steamer, then with other Queenstown footage from about 1978, then with high-country wildlife.

Still Frames From This Clip

Red deer stag trailing a hind through tussock grassland, Queenstown district, Otago, New Zealand, circa 1978 — A red deer stag with a broad rack of antlers follows a hind across tussock grassland, Otago, circa 1978.
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Stag nosing a hind's flank in golden tussock below high-country slopes near Queenstown, New Zealand, circa 1978 — The stag lowers his head toward the hind as they move through the tussock.
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Antlered red deer stag beside a hind on Otago high-country grassland, New Zealand, circa 1978 Super 8 home movie — The stag draws level with the hind, his antlers set against bare high-country hills.
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Alert hind and antlered stag standing together in tussock below hills, Lake Wakatipu district, New Zealand, circa 1978 — The hind raises her head and looks ahead while the stag stands at her side.
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