Cairo Egypt-1946: White Castle with Four Corner Towers and Waving Flag

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

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White Castle with Four Corner Towers and Waving Flag — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946, showing a distinctive white castle-like building with four corner towers and a waving flag atop. The clip transitions from a close-up of the castle to wider shots of surrounding apartment buildings and palm trees lining a sunlit street. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight blurriness, capturing a nostalgic mid-century urban scene in warm, faded tones. The camera pans across the architecture, revealing the historic character of the neighborhood.

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: 122713483

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: 1946 Cairo home-movie footage suited for documentary inserts needing mid-century urban architecture, street context, or travel-era establishing detail.
Period detail: The frames show sunlit masonry buildings, palm-lined street edges, and a castle-like white structure that may reflect mid-20th-century Cairo urban scenery.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld framing feels like a visitor pausing on notable architecture, then turning toward nearby apartment facades and palms.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white towered building, a small flag, apartment blocks, palm trees, street poles, bright pavement, and soft skyline edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, faded color, and slight exposure variation that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, architectural cutaway, travel transition, or memory beat within a Cairo or Egypt sequence.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for a built urban streetscape in Cairo, with landmark-like architecture set against residential buildings and palms.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are flagged, but users should still review copyright status and any property or location permissions for their use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s Cairo 8mm footage, Egypt home movie architecture, white castle-like building, palm street, and vintage urban travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cairo 1946 material, then broader Egypt architecture or mid-century travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Cairo home-movie frame showing a white castle-like building with corner towers and a small flag above the roofline. — White towered building with a flag seen in soft 8mm focus.

1946 Cairo street view with pale apartment facades, palm trees, and dark street poles in a faded 8mm frame. — Palm-lined street view with apartment facades in the background.

1946 Cairo home-movie frame showing a pale apartment block, palm trunks, street poles, and sunlit pavement. — Apartment facade and palms filmed from across a street.

1946 Cairo street scene with apartment buildings, palm fronds, poles, and bright pavement captured on faded 8mm film. — Final street view of apartment buildings and palms.

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