Taiwan-1982: Blue-and-White Coach Passing a Palace-Style Building with Flags

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Year1982
Decade1980s
LocationTaiwan
Duration2s
Price$149 USD
Collection1982 · Taiwan
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

urban transport
Chinese classical architecture
national flags
street life
travel
period city scene

Shot type: wide
Camera: static · handheld · eye level, slightly low
Setting: outdoor · urban street in front of a large Chinese-palace-style public building with palm trees
Time and weather: day · clear, hazy
Lighting: bright diffuse daylight
People: 8 · Passengers seen through the coach windows and a few small pedestrians near the building entrance; no one is shown close up.
Vehicles: blue-and-white coach bus · white van · blue car · scooters
Objects: Republic of China flags · flagpole · palm trees · utility wires · decorated entrance arch · red columns · utility pole
Colors: pale grey · blue · white · green · red
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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The blue-and-white coach enters at left in front of the palace-style building.
The coach fills the lower frame as passengers show at its windows.
The decorated entrance arch and pedestrians come into view behind the coach.
A white van and a blue car appear at the right as the coach moves on.

Blue-and-White Coach Passing a Palace-Style Building... — Clip Details

Taiwan, circa 1982, home movie footage of a blue-and-white coach driving left to right past a large Chinese-palace-style building with curved green tiled roofs, rows of national flags and tall palm trees. As the vehicle moves on, a decorated entrance arch with red columns, pedestrians, parked scooters and a white van come into view. The single shot is filmed from across the street on Super 8, with the camera held nearly level and a slight drift.

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: 2s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002003

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

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 with requests for early-1980s Taiwan city streets, public architecture and buses in documentary, education or travel-history productions.
Period detail: The rounded coach body, the small boxy van and car, parked scooters and the faded film colour suggest the early 1980s, and the flags show Republic of China symbols.
Home-movie behavior: A visiting rail enthusiast filmed the building from across the street, and the coach drove through the shot unplanned, giving it an unstaged traveller's view.
What appears in frame: A blue-and-white coach with passengers at the windows, a pale palace-style building with green tiled roofs, flags along the roofline, palm trees, a decorated arch with red columns, and a white van.
Film character: Soft Super 8 grain, muted cyan-leaning colour and a hazy sky give the clip the warm, slightly faded texture of a projected home-movie transfer.
Edit role: Works as a short establishing shot or cutaway for a Taiwan city sequence, or as a transition between railway scenes from the same trip.
Historical context: The flags and the ceremonial arch on a classical-revival public building show how official architecture and national symbols looked from the street in Taiwan around this time.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from likeness; the passengers and pedestrians are small and unnamed, and the building and the coach's livery are shown incidentally, so assess these under the intended use.
Research search match: Super 8 Taiwan street 1980s, vintage bus passing a Chinese palace-style building, ROC flags home movie, early 1980s East Asian city traffic.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with this reel's busy city street, intersection traffic and urban level-crossing clips, then with other Taiwan footage from the early 1980s, then with period bus and public-architecture material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Blue-and-white coach passing a Chinese-palace-style building with Republic of China flags in Taiwan, circa 1982 — A coach enters the frame in front of a palace-style building flying national flags, Taiwan, circa 1982.
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Passengers visible in a passing coach before a flag-lined classical Chinese building, Taiwan, early 1980s Super 8 — Passengers ride past the building's decorated entrance arch with its red columns.
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Street traffic and pedestrians outside a palace-style public building with flags in Taiwan, circa 1982 — As the coach moves on, pedestrians and a white van come into view near the entrance.
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Two pagoda-roofed towers flying ROC flags above a street with a van and a blue car, Taiwan, circa 1982 home movie — Two pagoda-roofed towers rise above the street as a van and a blue car pass.
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