Cairo Egypt-1946: Man Rides Donkey Through Town

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

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Man Rides Donkey Through Town — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946 captures a man riding a donkey through a sunlit urban landscape. The rider wears a light-colored hat and dark clothing, navigating a dusty road lined with low stone walls and scattered white rocks. In the background, a traditional windmill stands atop a sandy hill, with simple buildings and sparse vegetation under a clear blue sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, documentary-style glimpse of mid-century Egyptian daily life and transportation.

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: 122714732

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.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s Cairo or Egypt documentary sequences needing brief home-movie evidence of street life, local transport, and urban-edge landscape.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century Cairo with donkey transport, sandy roadside ground, low stonework, sparse buildings, palms, and a windmill-like structure in the distance.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged street observation of a rider passing through the frame, filmed from a visitor or amateur home-movie viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a road, palms and planted grounds, low walls, sandy embankments, white stones, a donkey rider, baskets, and distant simple buildings.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, gate edges, slight jitter, and uneven exposure that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, travel transition, cutaway to everyday mobility, or memory beat within a 1940s Egypt sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for everyday movement and roadside space in Cairo without proving a specific neighborhood, event, or social status.
Research note: A person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, location, and property questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Cairo 8mm home movie, Egypt donkey rider street footage, mid-century urban transport, and vintage North Africa travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other Cairo or Egypt footage from 1946, then with broader 1940s street transport or daily-life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Cairo home-movie frame showing a quiet roadside area with palms, benches, low walls, and planted grounds. — Roadside palms and benches appear beyond a sunlit street.

1946 Cairo frame with palms, benches, low walls, and planted roadside grounds seen through soft 8mm color. — A planted urban roadside area sits behind the street.

1946 Cairo street scene with a man riding a donkey past white stones, a sandy embankment, and a distant windmill-like structure. — A donkey rider moves along a dusty roadside with stonework behind him.

1946 Cairo frame showing a donkey rider on a dusty road with white rocks, sandy ground, and distant low buildings. — The rider and donkey continue across the frame beside a sandy roadside.

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