Cairo Egypt-1946: White Castle With Waving Blue Flag Featuring Half Crescent Moon

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

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White Castle With Waving Blue Flag Featuring Half... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946, showing a white stone castle with crenellated towers under a clear blue sky. A blue flag with a half crescent moon and star waves atop the fortress, fluttering in the wind. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural camera shake, capturing a nostalgic moment of historic Egyptian architecture. The scene is framed by dark borders, typical of old home movie reels, with subtle film damage and dust visible throughout the clip.

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: 122713434

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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 Cairo or Egypt establishing material, especially documentary inserts needing brief home-movie views of a white crenellated landmark and flag in wind.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, handheld framing, and 1946 metadata support a mid-1940s travel-film view, while the exact structure should be independently identified.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding on the castle-like facade and flag from a distance rather than staging action or guided movement.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white crenellated building, round corner towers, dark arched openings, a blue sky, a waving crescent-and-star flag, film borders, and light dust marks.
Film character: The footage carries an 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate borders, dust specks, and mild handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short Cairo travel insert, architectural cutaway, transition beat, or visual memory cue within a 1940s Egypt sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a distant view of a fortified-looking white structure and flag in Cairo, offering visual context without confirming the building's identity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any landmark or flag-related use should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1946 Cairo 8mm home movie, Egypt white castle flag, vintage Cairo landmark, crescent flag, and 1940s Egypt travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Cairo or Egypt 1946 shots, then broader 1940s travel, architecture, flag, or landmark material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Cairo home-movie frame showing a distant white castle-like structure with towers and a waving blue crescent-and-star flag. — Distant white crenellated structure with flag above it in Cairo, 1946.

1946 Cairo frame with a white fortified-looking facade, round towers, dark arched openings, and a blue flag in the sky. — White towered facade and blue flag seen from a distant visitor viewpoint.

Soft-focused 1946 Cairo 8mm frame showing the white crenellated structure, roofline towers, and flag above the building. — Soft home-movie frame of the white crenellated building and flag.

Final 1946 Cairo frame showing the same white towered structure with a faint waving blue flag above the roofline. — White towered structure and faint flag near the end of the shot.

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