Cairo Egypt-1946: Large Ship Crossing The High Seas With Barrels And Equipment

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Large Ship Crossing The High Seas With Barrels And Equipment — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Cairo, Egypt, 1946, capturing a large ship at sea. The clip shows the deck with industrial equipment, coiled ropes, and a small wooden chair. A crew member in a white shirt appears briefly. The camera pans across the ship's deck, revealing barrels, cargo, and machinery. The footage has a distinct retro color palette with film grain and slight blurriness, characteristic of home movie film. The ship sails through blue waters, creating a wake behind it. This archival material offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century maritime travel and industrial operations.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122712682

Rights & Clearance

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Cairo, Egypt Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s 8mm maritime footage suited to documentary requests for shipboard travel, ocean passage, deck equipment, or mid-century home-movie sea journey inserts.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-1940s ship-deck details, including painted metal surfaces, coiled rope, barrels, simple deck fittings, and cargo-handling equipment.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a passenger or traveler filming from above the deck, lingering on equipment and the ship's wake rather than staging a formal ship portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a dark ship deck, barrels, coiled rope, poles or davits, small deck fittings, cargo items, railings, and blue water beyond the stern.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, slight blur, and saturated blue-yellow color that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a maritime cutaway, journey transition, shipboard insert, or brief memory beat between travel scenes from the same reel.
Historical context: The clip visually documents ocean travel from a traveler-shot perspective, emphasizing working deck surfaces and equipment rather than passengers or landmarks.
Research note: People are flagged in the source metadata, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright, location, and ship identification should be checked separately.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1940s 8mm ship deck footage, vintage ocean crossing home movie, maritime travel deck equipment, or Egypt 1946 travel reel material.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cairo or Egypt 1946 travel footage, then broader 1940s maritime travel and shipboard equipment scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Egypt travel-reel frame showing a ship deck with barrels, poles, rope, and deck equipment viewed from above. — Deck equipment, barrels, and rigging fill the frame during the shipboard passage.

Shipboard view from the 1946 travel footage showing deck equipment, coiled rope, and blue sea beyond the stern. — The camera looks down over stern-side deck fittings with open water beyond.

1940s 8mm frame of ship deck machinery, rope, barrels, and surrounding sea from a high handheld angle. — Coiled rope and deck gear appear against the ship's dark painted surface.

1946 shipboard home-movie frame looking over stern deck equipment toward the wake in blue water. — The ship's stern deck and equipment are framed against churning sea water.

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