Cairo Egypt-1946: Ancient Stone Ruins Overlooking Mediterranean Sea

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

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Ancient Stone Ruins Overlooking Mediterranean Sea — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946 captures ancient stone ruins partially buried in sand, overlooking the blue Mediterranean Sea. The clip shows weathered walls, arched doorways, and small windows of a historic structure, with the horizon and ocean visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and film scratches, conveying a nostalgic, archival quality. The camera pans slowly across the site, revealing the ruins' scale and coastal setting under bright daylight.

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: 122715536

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: Useful for 1940s archival requests needing visitor-shot views of Egyptian stone ruins in a bright coastal setting.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-1940s travel filming, with weathered masonry, sand-covered walls, and saturated color typical of amateur 8mm stock.
Home-movie behavior: The value is a tourist or visitor perspective, slowly surveying the site rather than staging a formal architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible details include stone walls, arched openings, small dark windows, pale sand, low coastal terrain, blue water, and a clear horizon.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, color fading, and light scratches give the scan a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, or transition between Egypt location material and coastal ruins coverage.
Historical context: The clip visually places an old stone structure in a sandy landscape with water beyond, without enough evidence to identify the site from the frames alone.
Research note: People are flagged in the clip metadata, so likeness review may be needed even though no faces are clear; copyright and site permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 8mm Egypt ruins, vintage Cairo travel footage, stone walls in sand, arched openings, and coastal historic structure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Egypt or Cairo material, then broader archival clips of ruins, beaches, walls, and travel views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Egypt 8mm frame showing sandy stone ruins, a vertical wall remnant, and blue water beyond the site. — Stone walls and sand-covered ruins overlook blue water in bright daylight.

1946 Egypt travel footage frame with low stone ruins, pale sand, distant water, and a dark figure-like shape near the right edge. — A sandy ruin site with low masonry and distant water appears through the 8mm frame.

1946 Egypt 8mm frame showing arched stone openings, a sloped sandy ruin wall, and blue water across the background. — Arched masonry openings sit below a sand-covered wall with the waterline beyond.

1946 Egypt frame showing a weathered stone structure with small arched openings, pale sand, and distant blue water. — Weathered stone openings and sand-covered ruins are framed against the distant sea.

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