Taiwan-1982: Train Crossing A Bridge And A Boat Crossing A River In A City

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Year1982
Decade1980s
LocationTaiwan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1982 Taiwan

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Train Crossing A Bridge And A Boat Crossing A River In A... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Taiwan in 1982 captures a blue passenger train crossing a concrete bridge over a calm river, with a small motorboat gliding beneath. The scene reveals a mix of modest residential buildings and industrial structures along the waterfront, including a prominent electrical substation. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural motion blur, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-1980s urban life and transportation in a Taiwanese city.

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: 122801292

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for documentary or educational requests needing 1982 Taiwan urban transport atmosphere with rail, river traffic, and waterfront infrastructure in one brief shot.
Period detail: The blue passenger train, small motorboat, concrete bridge, low-rise buildings, and substation structures may show early-1980s urban waterfront detail in Taiwan.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged home-movie observation from across the river, watching everyday movement rather than a posed subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue passenger train, concrete rail bridge, calm river, small motorboat, waterfront houses, utility poles, industrial structures, and reflections.
Film character: The 8mm footage carries soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, handheld steadiness changes, and motion blur that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transportation insert, river-city transition, or memory beat within a Taiwan or urban infrastructure sequence.
Historical context: The scene places rail and river movement beside modest residential and industrial waterfront structures, offering visual context without identifying a specific city or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and visible exterior property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1982 Taiwan 8mm train bridge footage, urban river boat cutaway, Taiwanese waterfront transport, and vintage home-movie city infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Taiwan 1982 urban scenes, and then broader rail, river, bridge, or infrastructure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1982 Taiwan 8mm frame showing a blue passenger train moving across a bridge above a waterfront with buildings and river reflections. — A blue passenger train crosses a concrete bridge over the river.

1982 Taiwan waterfront view with low-rise buildings, bridge supports, utility poles, and calm river reflections after the train has passed. — Low-rise waterfront buildings sit beside the bridge and calm river.

1982 Taiwan 8mm frame showing riverside houses, utility poles, a bridge edge, and still water reflecting the waterfront. — Riverside buildings and bridge structures reflect in the calm water.

1982 Taiwan river view with a small motorboat passing near bridge spans, waterfront buildings, and a visible electrical substation. — A small motorboat moves along the river past waterfront infrastructure.

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