Cairo Egypt-1946: Black and White Striped Lighthouse in Harbor

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

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Black and White Striped Lighthouse in Harbor — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946, showing a distant view of a harbor with a prominent black-and-white striped lighthouse. The clip begins with a wide, slightly blurry shot through a window frame, gradually zooming in on the lighthouse and surrounding marina filled with boats and masts. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, grain, and a faded blue-green color palette. The scene captures a quiet, nostalgic moment of mid-century maritime life, with the lighthouse standing as a central landmark against a hazy sky.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122713060

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: Supports 1940s maritime or travel sequences needing brief home-movie harbor footage from Egypt with a striped lighthouse and marina views.
Period detail: The soft color 8mm view may show mid-century harbor infrastructure, with a striped lighthouse, sailboat masts and low waterfront buildings visible through haze.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels visitor-shot, beginning at a distance and moving closer to the lighthouse as a landmark noticed from across the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open harbor water, a black-and-white striped lighthouse, marina masts, small boats, waterfront structures, hazy sky and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip has a faded blue-green palette, visible grain, soft focus, slight handheld instability and contact-print framing that read as original small-gauge film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short harbor insert, travel transition, location-establishing cutaway or quiet memory beat in a mid-century Egypt sequence.
Historical context: The scene presents a calm waterfront and navigation landmark, offering visual context for harbor travel and leisure boating without showing identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s Egypt 8mm harbor footage, Cairo home movie lighthouse, striped lighthouse marina, vintage travel waterfront and maritime cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Egypt travel shots, then other 1946 Cairo or harbor material, then broader lighthouse, marina and maritime navigation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Egypt home-movie frame showing a distant harbor across water, with a small striped lighthouse and waterfront shapes under a hazy sky. — Wide hazy harbor view with a striped lighthouse on the far shoreline.

1946 Egypt 8mm frame with a black-and-white striped lighthouse rising above marina masts, boats and low waterfront structures. — Striped lighthouse above marina masts and waterfront buildings.

1946 Egypt home-movie still showing the striped lighthouse in soft focus, framed by sailboat masts and waterfront structures. — Soft close view of the striped lighthouse and marina foreground.

1946 Egypt 8mm frame centering the striped lighthouse behind marina masts, boats and low harbor buildings in a hazy waterfront scene. — Centered lighthouse view across the marina and harbor structures.

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