Cairo Egypt-1946: Massive Steamship Sailing With Three Smokestacks

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

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Massive Steamship Sailing With Three Smokestacks — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946 shows a massive steamship sailing across the open sea. The large passenger liner, with three prominent smokestacks emitting plumes of smoke, cuts through the water under a hazy, overcast sky. The grainy, slightly faded image captures the nostalgic quality of mid-century home movie footage, viewed through the characteristic frame of an 8mm projector. The ship moves steadily across the frame, its silhouette defined against the grey horizon, offering a rare glimpse of maritime travel during the post-war era.

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: 122712983

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

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: Supports 1940s maritime travel or postwar transport requests needing brief 8mm home-movie footage of a large steamship at sea.
Period detail: The large multi-smokestack passenger vessel and soft color 8mm texture suggest mid-century ocean travel, with the 1946 date and Egypt location supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot, observational quality, watching the ship from a distance rather than staging action or identifying passengers.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a distant steamship, three smokestacks, smoke plumes, open water, a hazy horizon, pale sky, film gate edges, and dust marks.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, visible grain, faded color, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, travel transition, maritime cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century sea passage.
Historical context: The scene visually places a large passenger or transport vessel on open water, reflecting sea travel imagery without identifying the ship or voyage.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but ship identity and underlying copyright status should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1940s steamship at sea, vintage 8mm ocean liner, Egypt travel home movie, and three-smokestack ship footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Egypt travel material, then other 1946 Cairo or regional footage, then broader 1940s maritime and sea-travel clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Egypt-linked 8mm frame showing a large distant steamship with smoke rising from its stacks on open water. — A large steamship appears on the horizon, its smokestacks smoking above the sea.

Distant 1946 maritime home-movie view of a large steamship moving across the sea beneath a pale, hazy sky. — The vessel remains distant, silhouetted softly against the horizon and sky.

Faded 8mm frame from the Egypt-labeled 1946 clip showing a distant steamship and smoke against open water. — Smoke rises from the ship as it travels along the hazy sea horizon.

End frame of the 1946 Egypt-linked 8mm clip showing the large steamship still distant on the water. — The ship continues across the frame, softened by haze, grain, and faded color.

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