Taiwan-1982: Long Train Passes Underneath Interstate Bridge Beside Businesses

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Year1982
Decade1980s
LocationTaiwan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1982 Taiwan

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Long Train Passes Underneath Interstate Bridge Beside... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Taiwan in 1982 captures a long train passing beneath an elevated highway bridge. The scene features a dark green passenger train moving along tracks in the foreground, with a busy multi-lane road above carrying cars. In the background, a mid-century urban skyline of apartment buildings and commercial structures rises under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color fading, and subtle grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of 1980s Taiwanese transportation and city life.

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: 122799915

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: Serves documentary or educational productions needing 1980s Taiwanese urban infrastructure footage — rail transit and elevated highway within a developing city skyline.
Period detail: Flat-roofed commercial blocks and mid-rise residential towers in the background, alongside period vehicles on the overpass, are consistent with early-1980s East Asian urban expansion.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from a fixed elevated vantage, likely a building window or rooftop, suggesting a traveler or resident documenting the city's expanding transit infrastructure rather than staging a scene.
What appears in frame: Dark passenger train on ground-level tracks, elevated highway overpass with guardrails, period vehicles, utility poles, flat-roofed commercial buildings, mid-rise office blocks, high-rise residential towers, scattered trees.
Film character: Super 8 softness and moderate grain give the cityscape a faded neutral palette; flat contrast under the overcast sky preserves urban detail while lending an authentic period texture.
Edit role: Functions as a wide establishing cutaway or location-setting insert in documentaries on Taiwanese modernization, transportation history, or 1980s East Asian urban development.
Historical context: The pairing of elevated highway and ground-level passenger rail in close urban proximity reflects Taiwan's rapid infrastructure investment during its early-1980s economic expansion.
Research note: No identifiable individuals are visible; public infrastructure carries no copyright encumbrance; verify whether any building signage in the original scan warrants review before broadcast use.
Research search match: Researchers may use: 1980s Taiwan train footage, Taiwanese city infrastructure home movie, elevated highway urban Asia 8mm, early 1980s East Asian transit.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same Taiwan 1982 home-movie reel; then with East Asian urban transit footage from the 1980s; then with home-movie infrastructure or cityscape shots.

Still Frames From This Clip

Dark passenger train on ground-level tracks passing below an elevated road overpass; mid-rise commercial buildings and high-rise towers in background, Taiwan 1982. — Train passing below the overpass with the city skyline rising behind, Taiwan, 1982.

Continuation shot of the dark passenger train beneath an elevated roadway; urban commercial and residential skyline stretching across the background, Taiwan 1982. — The train continues beneath the overpass, city skyline visible behind, Taiwan, 1982.

Wide elevated view of a Taiwanese urban district after the train has passed; commercial blocks, scattered trees, and residential towers visible in background, Taiwan 1982. — Urban streetscape with elevated overpass and city buildings after the train passes, Taiwan, 1982.

Final clip frame showing the elevated highway, mixed commercial and residential urban skyline, and foreground vegetation consistent with an early-1980s Taiwanese city district. — Urban skyline and overpass after the train has cleared the frame, Taiwan, 1982.

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