Taiwan-1982: Persons Standing At Railway Station With Train

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Year1982
Decade1980s
LocationTaiwan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1982 Taiwan

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Persons Standing At Railway Station With Train — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Taiwan in 1982 captures a bustling train station platform with passengers boarding a blue and cream-colored train. People in casual 1980s attire stand and walk along the platform, some carrying bags, under a covered structure with wooden beams. The scene transitions to views from the moving train, showing railway tracks stretching toward distant mountains, overhead power lines, and a concrete pedestrian bridge. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic home movie imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, documentary-style record of daily life and travel in 1980s Taiwan.

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: 122799399

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 1805 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1982
Reel-level location note: hong kong,taiwan
Date: 1982 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Taiwan Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Fits editorial requests for 1980s Taiwan daily life, Asian rail travel, or transportation infrastructure, suitable as a documentary insert or archival context shot.
Period detail: The train's blue livery, women's casual dress including a wide-brimmed sun hat and loose slacks, and the covered timber-post platform appear consistent with early 1980s Taiwan; no anachronistic elements are visible.
Home-movie behavior: A traveler filmed both the communal platform boarding scene and the landscape unfolding from the moving train window, capturing an unstaged dual perspective on a rail journey.
What appears in frame: Blue passenger train carriages, covered station platform with support posts, several passengers including one in a wide-brimmed hat, converging electrified railway tracks, catenary poles and wires, concrete overpass, and distant mountain range.
Film character: Natural 8mm grain throughout with a warm-to-cool color shift and faded sky tones consistent with early-1980s consumer film stock, lending an authentic home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: Works as an establishing insert for 1980s Asian rail travel, a POV transition from platform to moving train, or a journey cutaway in documentary or narrative contexts.
Historical context: Taiwan's rail network was a primary mode of intercity travel in the early 1980s; the platform scene may reflect everyday long-distance or commuter passenger behavior of the period.
Research note: Adult faces are visible on the platform in the opening frame; subjects appear to be unidentified members of the public in a public space, but likeness rights should be assessed before editorial use.
Research search match: Researchers may query 1980s Taiwan train station, vintage East Asia rail travel, 8mm home movie train platform, or early 1980s Taiwan transportation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same Taiwan 1982 reel, then with 1980s Asian rail or transportation footage, then with home-movie travel sequences from East Asia of the same decade.

Still Frames From This Clip

Passengers walking and standing on a covered timber-post platform alongside blue train carriages at a Taiwan railway station, circa 1982. — Station platform with passengers boarding, Taiwan 1982.

Train-forward POV with converging electrified tracks, a concrete overpass structure, and hazy mountains in the background, Taiwan, circa 1982. — Train-forward view toward mountains along the electrified corridor, Taiwan 1982.

8mm forward POV from a moving train along an electrified rail corridor with overhead catenary wires, low forested hills, and roadside buildings, Taiwan, circa 1982. — Electrified rail corridor with distant hills and trackside buildings, Taiwan 1982.

Forward-facing 8mm shot from a moving train showing electrified tracks, catenary wires, and mountain silhouettes in the distance, Taiwan, circa 1982. — Train journey through electrified rail corridor toward mountains, Taiwan 1982.

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