Taiwan-1982: Small Cabin Motor Boat Cutting a Wake Toward a Railway Bridge

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Year1982
Decade1980s
LocationTaiwan
Duration8s
Price$149 USD
Collection1982 · Taiwan
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

river transport
urban waterway
railway infrastructure
electrification
travel home movie
1980s Taiwan
industrial landscape

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld
Setting: outdoor · urban river with railway bridge, overhead electrification masts, pylons and low-rise buildings
Time and weather: day · hazy, overcast
Lighting: diffuse daylight under hazy sky
People: 1 · One small, unidentifiable figure at the helm inside the boat cabin.
Vehicles: motor boat
Objects: wooden cabin motor boat · boat wake · girder bridge · overhead catenary masts · high-voltage pylon · power lines · riverbank buildings · trees
Colors: blue-violet · pale pink · grey · dark green
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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The cabin motor boat passes close to the camera, throwing a wide wake.
The camera pans left and a railway bridge with catenary masts enters the frame.
The boat heads across the river toward the bridge, its wake spreading behind.
The small craft recedes into mid-river below the bridge and pylon.

Small Cabin Motor Boat Cutting a Wake Toward a Railway... — Clip Details

Western Taiwan, circa 1982, home movie footage of a small wooden cabin motor boat crossing a calm city river. The vessel moves away from the camera, trailing a broad wake toward a low girder bridge topped with overhead railway electrification masts. Behind it stand pale low-rise buildings, a dense cluster of electrical masts and a high-voltage pylon. The single handheld shot, taken from a slightly raised bank, pans gently left to keep the craft in frame.

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: 8s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002001

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People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1982 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Taiwan Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Helps a production needing early-1980s Taiwan urban river footage, showing small working boats alongside electrified railway infrastructure.
Period detail: An electrified girder bridge, dense overhead masts and pale low-rise concrete buildings may show early-1980s Taiwan after the 1979 Western Trunk Line electrification.
Home-movie behavior: A traveller on a railway trip pauses to film an ordinary boat crossing the river, an unstaged moment of daily waterway life.
What appears in frame: A wooden cabin motor boat with a painted stern, its long white wake, a low railway bridge with catenary portals, a tall pylon, pale riverside buildings and calm reflective water.
Film character: Super 8 grain, a cool blue-violet water tone and soft pink highlights give a warm period texture under hazy daylight.
Edit role: Works as a calm transition or cutaway between railway scenes, or as an establishing beat for a Taiwan city river.
Historical context: Small wooden craft on a city river beside a modern electrified rail crossing reflect the mix of traditional and new infrastructure visible in Taiwan at the time.
Research note: The film copyright belongs to the home-movie source; the single figure at the helm is not identifiable, and the boat and buildings may raise property questions for some uses.
Research search match: Super 8 Taiwan river boat, 1980s Taiwan urban waterway, electrified railway bridge Taiwan, vintage Asian city river footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Electric locomotive crossing river bridge and Orange electric locomotive hauling blue coaches, then other early-1980s Taiwan city scenes, then vintage river-transport clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Wooden cabin motor boat passing close on a calm city river in western Taiwan, circa 1982, with masts and buildings beyond — A small cabin motor boat throws a wide wake on a calm river, western Taiwan, circa 1982.
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Cabin boat heading across a western Taiwan river, circa 1982, as an electrified rail bridge enters the left of frame — As the camera pans, an electrified bridge appears behind the departing boat.
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Small motor boat crossing toward an electrified railway bridge on a city river in western Taiwan, circa 1982 — The boat crosses toward a low railway bridge carrying overhead electrification masts.
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Distant cabin boat trailing a long wake below a rail bridge and pylon, western Taiwan riverside, circa 1982 — The boat recedes into mid-river below the bridge and a high-voltage pylon.
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