Cairo Egypt-1946: A United States Flag Flies From The Stern Of A Ship While

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

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A United States Flag Flies From The Stern Of A Ship While — Clip Details

A vintage 1946 8mm home movie clip showing a United States flag flying from the stern of a ship at sea. The footage captures the American flag fluttering in the wind against a deep blue sky and ocean horizon, with visible ship rigging and masts. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, characteristic of mid-20th century amateur footage. The scene evokes a sense of maritime travel and historical nostalgia, likely filmed during a voyage from or through Cairo, Egypt.

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: 122713043

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: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 1940s maritime home-movie footage for documentary inserts about ocean travel, shipboard passage, or American presence abroad.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1940s ship rigging, mast details, and a United States flag viewed from an amateur 8mm camera at sea.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a passenger casually filming from the deck or stern, holding on the flag, rigging, and ocean horizon rather than staging a scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a United States flag, ship mast, rigging lines, blue sky, ocean horizon, deck structures, and distant water surface.
Film character: The 8mm scan has saturated blue color, soft focus, gate edges, visible grain, flicker, and handheld framing that give the shot clear home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief maritime insert, voyage transition, travel-memory beat, or cutaway between shipboard and destination material.
Historical context: The footage places an American flag within a shipboard travel setting, but the frames do not identify the vessel, route, port, or exact filming location.
Research note: No people are visible, but the United States flag and any vessel identifiers should be reviewed separately from copyright, property, and trademark concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s 8mm ship at sea, United States flag on stern, vintage ocean voyage footage, and amateur maritime home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Cairo or Egypt 1946 travel footage, then broader 1940s shipboard, nautical, and ocean passage clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm frame showing a United States flag on ship rigging against a deep blue sky, with dark film borders visible. — A United States flag flutters among ship rigging under a blue sky.

1946 8mm frame with the United States flag blurred by motion near rigging lines, set against a saturated blue sky. — The flag moves across the rigging in a handheld shipboard view.

1946 8mm frame showing a close, soft-focused view of the shipboard flag and diagonal rigging against blue sky. — A closer handheld view catches the flag twisting in the wind.

1946 8mm frame showing the ship stern area, United States flag, mast, rigging, and open ocean horizon. — The view widens to the stern, flag, rigging, and sunlit ocean beyond.

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