Cairo Egypt-1946: Trolley Car and Bougainvillea on Street

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

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Trolley Car and Bougainvillea on Street — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946 captures a bustling street scene with a trolley car filled with passengers. The footage shows people in period attire riding the trolley, with traditional Egyptian architecture and a prominent white building with crenellated walls in the background. Vibrant purple bougainvillea bushes line the street, creating a striking contrast against the sunlit, sandy-colored buildings. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, offering authentic archival footage of mid-20th century urban life in Cairo.

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: 122714306

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s Cairo street footage for productions needing a brief urban transit insert, travel-memory beat, or archival city cutaway.
Period detail: The trolley car, period clothing, sunlit masonry, crenellated wall, and street planting may show mid-20th-century Cairo as identified in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a visitor-like street viewpoint, shifting from a crowded trolley to bougainvillea and nearby architecture rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a trolley with passengers, pedestrians, pale masonry buildings, crenellated walls, purple bougainvillea, roadway, curb, and strong daylight.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, handheld framing, grain, exposure bloom, gate edges, and color shifts typical of small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short Cairo establishing insert, transit cutaway, travel transition, or color-rich memory beat between broader scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually places public transport, street landscaping, and historic-looking architecture in the same urban view without proving a specific event or landmark.
Research note: People appear in the trolley scene, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1940s Cairo street scene, Egypt trolley footage, 8mm Cairo travel film, bougainvillea street, and mid-century urban Egypt.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Cairo or Egypt footage, then broader historic street transit and travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Cairo footage shows a trolley car carrying passengers past pale masonry buildings on a bright street. — A crowded trolley car passes through a sunlit Cairo street.

In the Cairo street view, purple bougainvillea lines the roadside below pale crenellated architecture. — Bougainvillea fills the roadside below historic-looking walls.

The 1946 Cairo clip lingers on a roadside bougainvillea hedge with pale walled buildings in the background. — The camera holds on dense purple flowers along the street.

A final Cairo street frame shows dense purple bougainvillea, a curb, roadway, and pale crenellated buildings in bright daylight. — Purple roadside flowers contrast with sunlit pale architecture.

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