Cairo Egypt-1946: Massive Steam Ship Cruising On Calm Seas

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

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Massive Steam Ship Cruising On Calm Seas — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946 captures a massive steamship cruising across calm seas. The grainy, monochrome image shows the large vessel with multiple smokestacks emitting dark plumes, moving steadily through the water. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics including visible grain, scratches, and a soft focus, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century maritime travel. The ship's silhouette dominates the frame against a hazy sky, with gentle waves visible in the foreground. This archival home movie provides authentic historical footage of oceanic transport during the postwar 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: 122712999

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: Useful for 1940s maritime travel, postwar transport, or Egypt-associated archival sequences needing a distant steamship at sea.
Period detail: The multi-funnel steamship silhouette and soft 8mm home-movie framing may show mid-20th-century passenger or naval-era sea travel.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot feel, observing a ship from shore or another vessel rather than staging a formal maritime scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large steamship, multiple funnels, smoke, a flat horizon, calm blue water, hazy sky, and heavy film gate borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, scratches, slight exposure haze, and contact-print framing that preserve its 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime insert, travel transition, sea-route cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a 1940s sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests long-distance sea transport viewed at a remove, with the vessel moving steadily across open water.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but ship identity, vessel ownership, and copyright status should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s 8mm steamship at sea, Egypt travel home movie, distant ocean liner, and vintage maritime footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then Cairo or Egypt 1946 travel clips, then broader 1940s sea transport and steamship footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Egypt-associated 8mm frame showing a distant multi-funnel steamship on calm seas with smoke rising. — A large steamship passes along the horizon, seen through soft 8mm film grain.

Distant steamship continues across the horizon in 1946 Egypt-associated home-movie footage, framed by dark film borders. — The ship remains distant, its funnels and smoke visible against a pale sky.

Soft 8mm frame of a distant steamship at sea, with smoke from its funnels and a low horizon line. — A multi-funnel vessel moves steadily across calm open water.

1946 Egypt-associated home-movie frame showing a distant steamship on the water, with haze, scratches, and dark frame edges. — The vessel holds near the horizon as smoke rises into the washed, hazy sky.

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