Taiwan-1982: Locomotive Approaching Station with Overhead Lines

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Year1982
Decade1980s
LocationTaiwan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1982 Taiwan

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Locomotive Approaching Station with Overhead Lines — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Taiwan in 1982, showing a view from a moving train looking down multiple railway tracks toward a station area. The scene features overhead electrical lines, industrial buildings, and residential structures in the background under a bright sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with warm color tones, slight grain, and natural motion blur. The final frame captures a passing train with a red and white locomotive, emphasizing the era's transportation infrastructure. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-1980s Taiwanese rail travel and urban 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: 122801240

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1980s Taiwan rail travel requests needing moving-train POV, station approach, or urban transportation infrastructure for documentary or education edits.
Period detail: The overhead electric lines, multiple rail tracks, station approach, and red-and-white locomotive may show early-1980s Taiwanese rail infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a passenger-shot perspective from a moving train, preserving an unstaged view of tracks, buildings, and a passing locomotive.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include parallel tracks, switching rails, overhead gantries, electrical wires, station structures, low buildings, and a passing locomotive.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, edge shadowing, and motion blur consistent with handheld home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief transit insert, location transition, station-approach cutaway, or memory beat for rail travel in Taiwan.
Historical context: The footage visually situates rail travel within a built-up corridor of tracks, utility poles, station structures, and nearby urban buildings.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are evident, but copyright, location, railway property, and train identification should be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Taiwan 1982 8mm train footage, moving train POV, railway tracks to station, vintage locomotive, Asian urban rail home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Taiwan 1982 rail or city material, then broader vintage train and transportation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1982 Taiwan home-movie frame looking along railway tracks toward overhead electric lines, station structures, and low urban buildings. — Railway tracks and overhead electrical gantries lead toward a station area.

Moving-train view in Taiwan, 1982, showing rail lines, overhead electrical hardware, and station-side buildings under bright daylight. — Tracks, utility structures, and station buildings pass in a rail corridor.

1982 Taiwan rail approach view from a moving train, with switching rails, overhead gantries, and station-area buildings visible. — A passenger view follows tracks and switches toward station infrastructure.

1982 Taiwan frame with a red-and-white locomotive moving past utility poles, wires, trees, and low-rise buildings. — A red-and-white locomotive passes through a built-up rail area.

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