Cairo Egypt-1946: Striped Lighthouse at Cairo Harbor

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

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Striped Lighthouse at Cairo Harbor — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946, showing a prominent black and white striped lighthouse standing tall at a bustling harbor. The grainy, slightly faded color film captures numerous sailboats and masts in the marina, with low-rise buildings lining the waterfront under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including visible grain, light scratches, and a soft focus, conveying a nostalgic, archival atmosphere of mid-20th century Egypt.

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: 122713063

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 1940s Egypt harbor footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions needing a brief maritime landmark insert from original 8mm home-movie material.
Period detail: The visible waterfront, clustered masts, soft color, and black-and-white striped light tower may show mid-20th-century harbor infrastructure as captured by a visitor or traveler.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot landmark perspective, holding on the striped tower and marina from a distance rather than staging action or foreground subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a striped lighthouse or harbor light, sailboat masts, a waterfront edge, low buildings, hazy sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, muted color, visible grain, light scratches, and slight exposure variation that give the short view clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a harbor cutaway, geographic establishing insert, travel-memory beat, or transition into archival material about Egypt, ports, or maritime travel.
Historical context: The frames provide visual context for a waterfront setting in Cairo, Egypt, in the 1940s as identified by the supplied metadata, without identifying a specific landmark.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property considerations for their use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s Egypt 8mm harbor footage, Cairo docks home movie, striped lighthouse at marina, vintage waterfront boats, and archival travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Cairo or Egypt waterfront material, then broader vintage harbor, lighthouse, and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Cairo, Egypt home-movie frame showing a black-and-white striped harbor light near boats and low waterfront structures. — Striped harbor light rises behind masts along the waterfront.

A distant striped harbor light stands near clustered boat masts in 1946 Cairo, Egypt, filmed on soft color 8mm stock. — Distant striped tower and marina masts in a hazy harbor view.

Soft 8mm frame of a striped harbor light and dockside masts, identified by supplied metadata as Cairo, Egypt, in 1946. — Harbor light and dockside masts seen from a distance.

Final frame holds on the striped harbor light, marina masts, and low waterfront buildings in archival 1946 Cairo home-movie footage. — Striped waterfront tower remains centered beside clustered masts.

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