Cairo Egypt-1946: Cape Domingo Sign and Ocean Liner

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationCairo, Egypt
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Egypt

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Cape Domingo Sign and Ocean Liner — Clip Details

Vintage 1946 8mm home movie footage from Cairo, Egypt, showing a close-up of a black sign with bold yellow lettering reading 'CAPE DOMINGO' mounted on a building facade. The scene transitions to a ship's mast and rigging against a deep blue ocean, capturing the vessel sailing on open seas. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, with a nostalgic, archival quality. The footage offers authentic mid-century travel and maritime imagery, ideal for historical or documentary projects.

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: 122712220

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1946 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: Cairo, Egypt 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: This 1940s 8mm clip supports documentary requests for mid-century travel footage, maritime cutaways, and shipboard journey atmosphere tied to the supplied Cairo, Egypt metadata.
Period detail: Visible clues include a bold painted Cape Domingo sign, ship railings, mast structures, rigging, and saturated reversal-film color that may show mid-century travel filming from aboard a vessel.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels visitor-shot and observational, moving from a sign detail to the ship's deck and open sea without staged action or visible passengers.
What appears in frame: The frames show a Cape Domingo sign, pale exterior panels, ship railings, mast supports, rigging lines, deck hardware, and deep blue ocean water.
Film character: The footage has 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, soft focus, handheld framing, gate edges, and color shifts typical of scanned physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, maritime transition, shipboard cutaway, or memory beat between destination and voyage material.
Historical context: The clip visually connects named signage with a sea voyage viewpoint, offering cautious evidence of postwar-era travel culture without confirming route, vessel identity, or port.
Research note: The sign text may require identification review, while no people are visible; copyright, trademark, and location or vessel-property questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s 8mm ship at sea, Cape Domingo sign, vintage home movie ocean voyage, Egypt travel footage, and mid-century maritime cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel shots, then other 1946 Cairo or Egypt material, and then broader 1940s shipboard, ocean voyage, and signage footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm frame showing a black Cape Domingo sign with yellow lettering mounted on a pale structure, with film gate edges visible. — Cape Domingo sign fills the frame above pale exterior panels.

Close 8mm view of the Cape Domingo sign, its yellow letters centered against a dark board on a pale facade or ship structure. — A steady close-up holds on the Cape Domingo sign.

Shipboard 8mm frame with a mast, railings, rigging lines, and deck structure set against deep blue open water. — Mast and rigging appear against the blue sea from an elevated shipboard view.

Elevated shipboard view showing mast supports, rigging, deck railings, and blue ocean in 1946 8mm home-movie footage. — The final frame looks down over ship fittings and railings toward open water.

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