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Cairo Egypt-1946: Grand Palace With Palm Trees And Classical Architecture

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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Grand Palace With Palm Trees And Classical Architecture — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946, showcasing a grand, well-designed palace or royal residence. The clip features a long, stately building with classical architecture, including columns and a prominent tower, set against a bright sky. Palm trees line the foreground, adding to the exotic, mid-century ambiance. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, capturing a nostalgic, historic moment of Egyptian architecture and daily life. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, and nostalgic content.

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
122713571

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • grand looking
  • immense
  • luxurious
  • well
  • designed
  • palace
  • trees
  • castle
  • royal
  • residence
  • manor
  • airy
  • buildings
  • landmarks
  • egypt
  • 1946
  • 1946 Cairo Egypt
  • vintage 8mm film
  • royal residence
  • palace architecture
  • colonial buildings
  • Egyptian landmarks
  • home movie footage
  • archival footage
  • classic film
  • retro 1940s
  • historic buildings
  • palm trees
  • old film
  • nostalgic footage
  • documentary footage
  • editorial use
  • vintage 8mm
  • mid-century Egypt
  • royal palace

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1940s Cairo archive requests needing an exterior architectural cutaway or establishing view of a grand civic or palace-like building.
Period detail
The frames show palm-lined grounds, classical facade details, and mid-century color 8mm rendering that support the Cairo, 1946 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior
The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, observing the building from outside rather than staging activity or presenting an official architectural survey.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include palm trees, a long pale facade, arched and columned sections, a raised wall, steps, open pavement, bright sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character
Soft focus, blue color shift, grain, gate edges, and slight handheld instability give the scan a recognizable 8mm archival texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, or transition into material about Cairo architecture or postwar-era Egypt.
Historical context
The view documents how a traveler recorded monumental architecture and landscaped urban space in Cairo without showing crowds or daily street activity.
Research note
No people, logos, or music are evident, but the exact building identity, copyright status, and any property-related permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1946 Cairo 8mm palace exterior, Egypt home movie architecture, palm-lined landmark facade, and vintage royal residence footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other Cairo 1946 exteriors, then broader Egypt architecture or travel-memory footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Cairo home-movie frame showing palm trees before a pale, classical building facade, with soft focus and visible film borders.
Palm-lined exterior view of a grand pale building in Cairo.
1946 Cairo 8mm frame of a grand exterior facade behind a low wall, with steps, arched details, and bright sky.
Wide exterior of the palace-like facade behind a low wall.
1946 Cairo home-movie still showing a palace-like building across an open paved area, framed by faded 8mm color.
Open foreground leading to a grand classical exterior.
1946 Cairo 8mm frame of a grand pale facade with arched central detail, side wing, low wall, and blue-shifted film color.
Final wide frame of the palace-like exterior and surrounding wall.

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