Cairo Egypt-1946: Mosque Dome and Desert Skyline in Vintage 8mm Film

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

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Mosque Dome and Desert Skyline in Vintage 8mm Film — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946, showing a distant view of a mosque with a blue-tinted dome and ornate architectural details. The scene captures a hazy, sunlit desert landscape with white buildings and structures along the horizon under a clear blue sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, characteristic of mid-20th century amateur recordings. The footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century Egyptian architecture and urban development, with a focus on religious landmarks and desert surroundings.

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: 122713327

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 documentary or museum edits needing Cairo home-movie views of Islamic architecture and a distant desert-edge skyline.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-1940s Cairo through a visitor view of a patterned mosque dome, low white buildings, haze, and open sky.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a traveler-shot perspective, lingering briefly between a close architectural detail and distant buildings across a bright open landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue-patterned dome, pale masonry, distant white buildings, dark horizon structures, sand-toned ground, blue sky, and film gate edges.
Film character: Soft focus, blue color shift, grain, uneven exposure, and slight handheld movement give the 8mm scan a period home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a Cairo establishing insert, architectural cutaway, travel transition, or quiet memory beat in a 1940s sequence.
Historical context: The frames place religious architecture and low urban forms within a bright arid setting without identifying a specific mosque or neighborhood.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or religious-site restrictions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s Cairo 8mm footage, Egypt mosque dome home movie, desert skyline, Islamic architecture, and vintage travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1946 Cairo material, then broader Egypt, Middle East, mosque, desert skyline, or vintage travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Cairo 8mm frame showing a close blue-tinted patterned mosque dome against a pale sky. — Close view of an ornate blue-patterned dome, framed by the dark edges of the film scan.

1946 Cairo 8mm frame with distant white buildings and dark horizon structures across a sunlit arid foreground. — Distant low buildings sit along the horizon beneath a clear blue sky.

1946 Cairo 8mm frame showing a hazy distant skyline, dark foreground structures, and pale buildings under blue sky. — A hazy horizon view shows pale buildings beyond a bright open foreground.

1946 Cairo 8mm frame with low white buildings, dark horizon forms, and an open sunlit foreground. — Low white buildings and dark horizon forms appear across a bright arid landscape.

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