Taiwan-1982: Passenger Train Crossing Bridge Over Water

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Year1982
Decade1980s
LocationTaiwan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1982 Taiwan

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Passenger Train Crossing Bridge Over Water — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Taiwan in 1982 shows a passenger train crossing a railway bridge over water. The train, painted in a distinctive orange and cream livery, moves steadily across the bridge supported by concrete pillars. Overhead electrical lines and utility towers frame the scene against a hazy sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight motion blur, and a nostalgic color palette characteristic of 1980s amateur film. This authentic archival clip captures a moment of everyday transportation in a mid-20th century urban setting.

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: 122801341

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 1980s Taiwan transportation requests needing real 8mm home-movie footage of a passenger train crossing water in an urban or industrial setting.
Period detail: The orange-and-cream electric passenger train, overhead wires, bridge structure, cars, and hazy skyline support an early 1980s Taiwan setting from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational roadside or waterside viewpoint, recording routine rail movement without staging or visible interaction with the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the passenger train, steel bridge, concrete piers, water below, overhead electrical gantries, utility tower, wires, and distant cars.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, slight motion blur, and muted color typical of amateur film scans.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief transportation insert, location transition, infrastructure cutaway, or memory beat within a Taiwan or urban mobility sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows everyday rail infrastructure crossing water, with electric lines and nearby road traffic suggesting a developed urban transport corridor.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any railway or property concerns should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1982 Taiwan 8mm passenger train, orange cream train crossing bridge, railway over water, urban transportation home movie, and archival rail footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other frames from the same reel, then Taiwan 1982 city or travel footage, then broader 1980s rail, bridge, water, and transportation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1982 Taiwan home-movie frame of an orange-and-cream passenger train moving across a rail bridge over water. — Passenger train crosses a steel bridge over water beneath overhead electrical lines.

Passenger train continues across a bridge over water in Taiwan, with electrical gantries and a utility tower visible. — Train cars pass across the bridge as utility lines frame the hazy background.

Soft 8mm frame of a passenger train crossing a waterway bridge, with rail gantries and cars below or beyond. — The train moves through the center of the frame across the waterway bridge.

Late frame of the 1982 Taiwan rail crossing, showing train cars, bridge supports, overhead wires, and water below. — Train cars pass between bridge gantries above the water and concrete supports.

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