Taiwan-1982: Vehicles Travel On The Road Near Train Yard

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Year1982
Decade1980s
LocationTaiwan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1982 Taiwan

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Vehicles Travel On The Road Near Train Yard — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Taiwan in 1982 captures a bustling urban landscape viewed from a train station. In the foreground, freight train cars and railway tracks occupy the lower frame, while a busy elevated highway curves through the midground with cars and buses in motion. Modern high-rise apartment buildings rise on a hillside in the background under a hazy sky. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, faded color saturation, and slight vignetting, conveying a nostalgic, authentic home movie aesthetic of 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: 122799805

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: Serves 1980s East Asian infrastructure documentaries, Taiwan economic-development segments, and transportation history productions needing authentic period urban footage.
Period detail: Multi-lane elevated highway carrying 1980s-era vehicles alongside a busy freight rail yard, with densely packed hillside housing consistent with Taiwan's rapid urbanization of the early 1980s.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from an elevated vantage — likely a station platform or overpass — capturing a wide visitor perspective on the layered urban infrastructure below, unstaged and unhurried.
What appears in frame: Open-top freight wagons on parallel tracks, curved elevated highway with cars and buses, concrete retaining wall, tall utility light poles, hillside high-rise apartments, small figures working in the rail yard, and a pale overcast sky.
Film character: Super 8 grain with warm pink highlights and faded colour saturation gives the footage an authentic home-movie texture consistent with early-1980s amateur film stock.
Edit role: Works as an establishing cutaway to anchor a scene in 1980s Taiwan's layered urban transport infrastructure, or as a transition between rail and road sequences.
Historical context: The coexistence of freight rail and a raised expressway against dense hillside housing reflects Taiwan's infrastructure expansion during its period of rapid economic growth in the early 1980s.
Research note: Small figures are visible as workers in the rail yard; faces are not individually identifiable at this distance, but standard archival-use clearance review is advised before broadcast.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1980s Taiwan rail yard, vintage elevated highway Asia, Super 8 Taiwan urban 1982, or freight train East Asia transportation documentary.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other Taiwan 1982 reel clips, then with East Asian urban infrastructure footage from the 1980s, then with elevated highway or freight rail sequences from the same decade.

Still Frames From This Clip

Super 8 footage from Taiwan, circa 1982, showing freight rail cars in a yard below a curved elevated highway, with apartment blocks on a hazy hillside beyond. — Freight rail yard and elevated highway, Taiwan, 1982.

8mm film frame from Taiwan, circa 1982, capturing a rail yard, a curving elevated expressway with period vehicles, and densely built hillside housing estates. — Elevated expressway curves above the rail yard, Taiwan, 1982.

Super 8 frame from Taiwan, circa 1982, showing a sprawling freight yard, elevated urban expressway, and hillside residential towers representing the era's rapid urban growth. — Sprawling freight yard below an elevated highway, Taiwan, 1982.

Final 8mm frame from Taiwan, circa 1982, showing freight cars, a raised urban expressway, densely packed hillside housing, and a red-orange structure visible at the right edge. — Freight rail and hillside apartments from an elevated vantage, Taiwan, 1982.

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