Taiwan-1982: Blue And White Train Running Through City

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Year1982
Decade1980s
LocationTaiwan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1982 Taiwan

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Blue And White Train Running Through City — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Taiwan in 1982 captures a blue and white passenger train moving along elevated tracks through an urban landscape. The train, with its distinct two-tone livery, travels past modern high-rise buildings and a concrete overpass under an overcast sky. Overhead catenary wires and gravel ballast line the tracks, with a low fence running alongside. The film exhibits natural grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of home movie footage from the era, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-1980s transportation and city development.

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: 122799508

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

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: Fills 1980s East Asian urban rail slots in documentary, broadcast, or educational productions covering Taiwan's infrastructure development or transit history.
Period detail: Two-tone blue-and-cream passenger rolling stock, electrified catenary system, gravel ballast trackbed, and concrete overpass in background are consistent with early-1980s Taiwan Railways, matching the 1982 date.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from a fixed trackside or platform vantage, the filmmaker holds the frame as the train passes in close proximity — an impromptu observational record rather than a staged transport sequence.
What appears in frame: Blue-and-cream passenger train cars, gravel ballast, parallel rail lines, overhead catenary wires on steel poles, concrete overpass, multi-storey residential buildings, distant mountains, low pipe fence.
Film character: Mild 8mm grain, slightly muted saturation, and faint motion blur on the moving cars give the footage an archival texture consistent with consumer film stock of the early 1980s.
Edit role: Works as a b-roll cutaway or period-establishing insert in a sequence about Asian urban development, rail history, or 1980s Taiwan; the 5-second length suits a single clean cut.
Historical context: The electrified rolling stock and high-rise construction visible in the background may reflect Taiwan's rapid urban and infrastructure expansion during the early 1980s economic growth period.
Research note: No readable logos or brands are identifiable; at least one distant pedestrian figure is visible in mid-ground frames — standard footage release review is advised; copyright status of the original film reel should be independently confirmed.
Research search match: Researchers may find this via queries such as "1980s Taiwan train," "vintage Taiwanese railway footage," "8mm Asia rail 1982," or "early 1980s electrified railway Asia."
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same Taiwan 1982 reel; then with 1980s East Asian urban infrastructure footage; then with electrified railway or city-development sequences from the same decade.

Still Frames From This Clip

Blue-and-cream passenger train approaching on an electrified track in Taiwan, circa 1982, with a concrete overpass and distant high-rise buildings in the background. — Train approaches on electrified track, Taiwan, 1982.

Side view of blue-and-cream passenger train cars on an electrified railway in Taiwan, circa 1982, with residential high-rises and distant mountains visible in the background. — Passenger cars pass in two-tone livery, Taiwan, 1982.

Blue-and-cream passenger train on electrified railway in Taiwan, circa 1982; a small pedestrian figure is visible near the concrete overpass in the mid-ground background. — Train moves past; distant pedestrian figure visible near overpass.

Rear of a blue-and-cream passenger train receding along an electrified railway in Taiwan, circa 1982, with a concrete overpass and residential buildings in the background. — Train rear recedes down electrified track, Taiwan, 1982.

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