Cairo Egypt-1946: Agricultural Plots and City Skyline

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

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Agricultural Plots and City Skyline — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946 captures a panoramic view of urban and rural coexistence. The clip shows a large agricultural area with neatly arranged plots and greenhouses in the foreground, bordered by a manicured garden with a small pavilion. In the background, a dense cityscape of mid-rise buildings stretches across the horizon under a bright sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century Egyptian life. This archival home movie footage is ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, and retro-themed projects.

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: 122715562

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 an exterior city-edge view where cultivated plots and urban buildings share the frame.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century urban expansion beside formal agricultural plots, with low to mid-rise buildings and garden structures visible beyond the fields.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot, observational perspective from an elevated position, lingering on the landscape rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rectangular farm plots, clipped hedges, paved garden paths, a small pavilion, distant buildings, open green land, and bright sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and mild handheld drift that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, transition, or contextual cutaway for Cairo, land use, or urban-rural contrast.
Historical context: The view places ordered cultivation and landscaped grounds in front of a dense city horizon, suggesting everyday spatial contrast without identifying a specific site.
Research note: No people, brands, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any location or property sensitivities for their project.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Cairo 8mm landscape, Egypt agricultural plots, mid-century city outskirts, vintage home movie city view, and urban-rural footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Cairo 1946 exteriors, then broader Egypt or mid-century agricultural landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Cairo 8mm frame showing formal agricultural plots, garden paths, hedges, and distant urban buildings under a bright sky. — Cultivated plots and clipped hedges sit below a distant Cairo city horizon.

Elevated 1946 Cairo view with gridded farm plots, manicured hedges, small structures, parked vehicles, and a soft city skyline. — A gridded cultivated area borders landscaped paths and distant city buildings.

1946 Cairo home-movie frame with cultivated rectangular plots in the foreground and a hazy band of urban buildings beyond open land. — Cultivated plots fill the foreground, with the city softened by distance and film grain.

Final 1946 Cairo frame showing rectangular agricultural beds, clipped hedges, garden structures, and distant buildings across the horizon. — The shot settles on the patterned fields and garden edge before the distant city skyline.

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