Cairo Egypt-1946: Ship at Sea with Prominent Mast and Rigging

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

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Ship at Sea with Prominent Mast and Rigging — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Cairo, Egypt, 1946, showing a ship at sea. The clip features a high-angle view of the deck with a prominent mast and rigging, capturing the vessel navigating through deep blue, choppy waters. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, conveying a sense of historical travel and maritime adventure. The perspective suggests a passenger's view from a cabin window, with the dark frame bordering the image. This authentic archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century ocean travel.

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: 122712358

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 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 clip supports 1940s maritime travel requests needing brief home-movie views of a ship underway at sea for documentary, museum, or education edits.
Period detail: The visible ship deck, mast, rigging, porthole-like dark framing, and 8mm color stock may show mid-20th-century passenger travel or shipboard observation.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an unstaged passenger viewpoint, looking down from a window or upper position toward the vessel and wake.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall mast, rigging lines, deck fittings, railings, blue choppy water, foaming wake, dark window framing, and sunlit ship surfaces.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie texture through soft focus, saturated blue water, uneven exposure, gate shadows, slight blur, and visible film grain.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime insert, travel transition, shipboard cutaway, or memory beat linking land travel to an ocean passage.
Historical context: The view places the viewer aboard a working or passenger vessel, emphasizing travel experience and sea conditions rather than identifiable events or landmarks.
Research note: No people, brands, or readable markings are visible, but copyright status and any vessel or location identification should be checked separately from likeness or property issues.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s 8mm ship at sea, vintage home movie ocean travel, mast and rigging from deck, and passenger view of wake.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel travel footage, then Cairo or Egypt material from 1946, then broader 1940s maritime, ship deck, and ocean passage clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm home-movie frame showing a ship deck from above, with mast, rigging, railings, and dark window-like borders. — Ship deck and mast seen from a high shipboard viewpoint, with water visible beyond the hull.

1946 8mm frame of a vessel underway, showing the deck, central mast, rigging, and surrounding blue water through dark borders. — Central mast and deck hardware framed by dark edges as the ship moves through blue water.

1946 8mm home-movie view over the ship's stern area, with dark framing, mast structure, rigging, and choppy wake. — Blue wake churns behind the ship, partly obscured by mast structure and dark frame edges.

1946 8mm frame looking past a mast and rigging toward bright blue choppy water and the vessel's wake. — Mast, rigging, and deck edge frame the ship's wake across choppy blue water.

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