Cairo Egypt-1946: Man Using Sextant to Navigate

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

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Man Using Sextant to Navigate — Clip Details

Vintage 1946 8mm home movie footage from Cairo, Egypt, showing a man on a boat using a sextant to navigate under a bright blue sky. The clip captures the man in a light-colored short-sleeve shirt, focused on his instrument, with the ship's wheel and rigging visible. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, authentic mid-century maritime moment. The sequence transitions from sky to the man's precise navigation, offering a rare glimpse of historical seafaring life and personal documentation.

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: 122712844

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: 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 (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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary or editorial sequences needing home-movie maritime navigation imagery connected to Cairo, Egypt metadata.
Period detail: The short-sleeve clothing, small-vessel rigging, ship wheel, and handheld 8mm color image support a mid-1940s home-movie reading, while no landmark is visible.
Home-movie behavior: The footage preserves an informal moment of a man carefully using a sextant on deck, observed from a nearby home-movie camera rather than staged coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue sky and cloud texture, a man with a sextant, a ship wheel, deck rail, rigging lines, a vertical hanging line, and bright outdoor light.
Film character: The clip has saturated blue color, soft focus, visible grain, slight jitter, and exposure shifts that read as authentic 8mm physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, maritime cutaway, navigation detail, or memory beat between broader travel or river-journey scenes.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests recreational or small-vessel navigation practice in a mid-century travel context, without visible proof of a specific route or vessel name.
Research note: A recognizable adult face appears, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from personality rights.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1940s 8mm Egypt travel footage, man using sextant on boat, vintage maritime navigation, or Cairo home movie river scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cairo or 1946 travel material, then broader vintage boating, navigation, sky, or river-journey footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s 8mm frame showing blue sky and cloud texture before the deck navigation view appears. — Blue sky and cloud texture opens the short maritime sequence.

Blue-tinted 8mm sky frame with cloud texture, likely part of the Cairo travel reel metadata. — Clouded blue sky continues before the camera cuts down to the boat deck.

In the Cairo 1946 home-movie metadata, an adult man on deck uses a sextant beside a ship wheel and rigging. — An adult man sights through a sextant beside the boat's wheel.

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