Taiwan-1982: Train Passing at Railway Crossing

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Year1982
Decade1980s
LocationTaiwan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1982 Taiwan

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Train Passing at Railway Crossing — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Taiwan in 1982 captures a moving train with a white and orange livery speeding past a railway crossing. The shot is taken from a stationary viewpoint, showing motion blur on the train and a prominent Japanese-style sign with Chinese characters reading '聽看停' (Stop and Look). The scene includes gravel tracks, overhead wires, and urban buildings in the background, with natural daylight and the characteristic grain and color saturation of 8mm home movie film. The clip ends with a blank frame, suggesting the end of the roll.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122801852

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 transport, rail-crossing, and urban mobility inserts in documentary, museum, education, or period commercial edits.
Period detail: The train livery, overhead wires, gravel track bed, urban buildings, and Chinese-character crossing sign support an early 1980s Taiwan street-rail context.
Home-movie behavior: A stationary visitor-shot viewpoint watches the train pass quickly, preserving an everyday rail moment rather than a staged travel scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a moving orange-and-white train, railway tracks, gravel ballast, overhead wires, a Chinese-character crossing sign, poles, trees, and city buildings.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, motion blur, saturated daylight color, gate edges, and brief end-of-roll blankness as part of its home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a transport cutaway, city transition, rail-travel insert, or short memory beat within a Taiwan or East Asian urban sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents rail infrastructure near an urban crossing, with signage and trackside buildings giving social context without identifying a specific station.
Research note: No people are visible, but the sign and train markings should be reviewed for copyright, trademark, and location-identification considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1982 Taiwan 8mm train footage, urban railway crossing, orange-and-white train, Chinese-character rail sign, and vintage East Asian city tracks.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Taiwan travel footage, then other 1982 Taiwan urban scenes, then broader 1980s rail, transit, and street-infrastructure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1982 Taiwan 8mm frame of an orange-and-white train blurring past tracks near a Chinese-character crossing sign. — A train moves past a trackside sign and railway crossing in daylight.

Orange-and-white passenger train blurs across a Taiwan rail crossing with signage and overhead wires visible. — The passing train fills most of the frame beside the crossing sign.

After the train passes, tracks, trees, urban buildings, and a Chinese-character crossing sign remain in view in Taiwan. — The rail line and surrounding cityscape are visible after the train clears the frame.

End-of-roll style blank 8mm frame with muted green-gray exposure, soft vignetting, and faint film marks. — The clip ends on a blank film frame, suggesting the end of the shot or roll.

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