Christchurch New Zealand-1978: Camera Tilts From Elderly Couple Up to Marble Polar Explorer Statue

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Year1978
Decade1970s
LocationChristchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1978 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

monuments
Antarctic exploration
tourism
public sculpture
retirement travel
urban parks
memory

Shot type: wide
Camera: tilt · zoom · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Urban park with lawn, flower beds and mature trees around a monument
Time and weather: day · summer · overcast
Lighting: soft diffuse daylight
People: 3 · An elderly man in a hat and grey suit and a woman in a striped dress stand at the plinth, and a third person is partly visible seated on the lawn at the right.
Landmarks: Scott Statue, Christchurch
Objects: marble statue · stone plinth · bronze plaque · stone steps · flower beds · trees · lawn · staff
Colors: green · white · pink · grey
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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Wide view of the plinth, with an elderly couple standing beside it among pink flower beds.
The camera begins to tilt up and the couple drops toward the lower edge of the frame.
Zooming in on the marble figure and its plaque, with film debris showing at the top of the frame.
Closer view of the hooded explorer holding a staff against the sky.

Camera Tilts From Elderly Couple Up to Marble Polar... — Clip Details

Christchurch, New Zealand, circa 1978 home movie footage. An elderly man in a hat and grey suit stands with a woman in a striped dress beside the stepped stone plinth of a white marble figure, framed by pink flower beds and broad trees. The camera tilts up and zooms in past the bronze plaque until the hooded polar explorer in fur clothing, gripping a staff, fills the frame against a pale sky. It is one continuous handheld Super 8 shot.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002380

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People visible: Yes
Minors 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: Christchurch, Canterbury, 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 suits requests for 1970s amateur footage of Christchurch's Antarctic memorial or of older tourists at a New Zealand monument.
Period detail: The man's hat and suit and the woman's striped dress may show 1970s fashion for older travellers, and the faded Super 8 colour fits the period.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor films from the lawn, taking in the couple first and then moving to the monument, the way a tourist records a sight they meant to see.
What appears in frame: A white marble hooded explorer with a staff, a stepped stone plinth with a bronze plaque, an elderly couple, pink flower beds, broad trees and a pale sky.
Film character: Handheld Super 8 with soft focus, visible grain, cool faded colour and a stray hair crossing the top of the frame partway through.
Edit role: The clip works as an establishing reveal of the memorial, a transition through the tilt and zoom, or a travel memory beat.
Historical context: Christchurch's ties to Antarctic expeditions are marked by this memorial, which visitors stopped to see before the 2011 earthquakes damaged the city.
Research note: The public sculpture may carry its own rights considerations, and the two visitors are small and turned partly away, but likeness permissions are a separate question from the film copyright.
Research search match: Researchers might search 'Scott statue Christchurch 1970s', 'Super 8 New Zealand tourist footage' or 'Antarctic explorer memorial home movie'.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with this reel's Dunedin Railway Station and fiord cruise shots, then with other Christchurch landmark footage of the 1970s, then with explorer memorials elsewhere.

Still Frames From This Clip

Elderly couple at the Scott statue plinth in a Christchurch park, New Zealand, circa 1978, among pink flower beds — Visitors pause at the base of the explorer memorial, Christchurch, circa 1978.
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Tilt up the white marble Scott statue in Christchurch, circa 1978, with the visitors dropping out of frame below — The camera leaves the couple and rises toward the figure.
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Hooded polar explorer in marble above its plaque, Christchurch, New Zealand, circa 1978 Super 8 film with debris showing — Mid-zoom on the hooded explorer figure, with film debris showing at the top.
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Robert Falcon Scott statue in hooded polar clothing, Christchurch, New Zealand, circa 1978 Super 8 home movie — The Scott statue in Christchurch, circa 1978: the explorer in hooded fur clothing, staff in hand.
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