Cairo Egypt-1946: Desert Landscape and Park with Stone Buildings

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

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Desert Landscape and Park with Stone Buildings — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946, showing a desert landscape with low-lying stone buildings on a hill under a clear blue sky. The scene transitions to a lush green park with manicured lawns and trees, bordered by urban buildings in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, capturing a nostalgic slice of mid-20th century Egyptian life. The film's aged quality and authentic atmosphere make it ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, and retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122715554

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: Useful for 1940s Cairo archive requests needing brief exterior cutaways of desert-edge buildings and a manicured urban park.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-1940s travel footage, with low stone structures in a dry landscape and a formal green park bordered by city buildings.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a visitor's viewpoint, holding on distant scenery and then shifting to a park view without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include sandy ground, scrub plants, low stone buildings, blue sky, lawns, paths, trees, and distant urban blocks.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and gentle handheld instability typical of home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a location-establishing insert, travel transition, or quiet memory beat between Cairo exterior scenes.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for Cairo-area travel filming, contrasting dry outskirts or ruins with maintained urban green space.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s Cairo 8mm footage, Egypt desert buildings, vintage park lawns, and home-movie travel exteriors.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Cairo views, then broader Egypt travel or urban landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Cairo-area home-movie frame showing sandy ground, sparse scrub, and low stone buildings under blue sky. — Low buildings sit beyond sandy foreground and scrub in a dry landscape.

1946 Cairo-area view of low stone structures across sandy terrain with sparse vegetation and clear sky. — A static view holds on distant stone structures across pale desert ground.

1946 Cairo-area frame with grainy 8mm texture, sandy foreground, sparse plants, and distant low stone buildings. — Stone buildings remain in the distance beyond scrub and open sandy ground.

1946 Cairo home-movie view of a formal green park with lawns, trees, paths, and distant city buildings. — A manicured park fills the foreground, with city buildings visible beyond.

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