Cairo Egypt-1946: Industrial Storage Complex and Cairo Skyline

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

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Industrial Storage Complex and Cairo Skyline — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946, showing a panoramic view of a large industrial storage complex with numerous rectangular concrete tanks or drying beds arranged in neat rows. The scene is framed by dark borders, typical of home movie film, with visible grain and slight color fading. In the background, a dense urban skyline of mid-rise buildings rises above green fields, capturing a moment of post-war urban development. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century industrial infrastructure and city growth.

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: 122715568

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

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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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s Cairo establishing material, especially documentary or museum edits needing a distant city-edge panorama with industrial or municipal storage grounds.
Period detail: The distant mid-rise skyline, open green fields and ordered concrete basins may show Cairo's mid-century urban edge and infrastructure landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint from an elevated position, observing the city and storage grounds without staging or close human activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rectangular concrete basins, low fences, green fields, scattered trees, industrial sheds, a distant urban skyline and pale sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate borders and gentle pan movement that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, transition between Cairo scenes or quiet memory beat in a travel sequence.
Historical context: The view places ordered industrial land beside open fields and dense buildings, suggesting a city perimeter where infrastructure and urban growth meet.
Research note: No people, logos or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or site identification should be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Researcher searches may include 1946 Cairo 8mm panorama, Egypt industrial storage lot, mid-century city skyline and vintage home movie landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Cairo travel shots, then 1946 Egypt city views, then broader mid-century industrial landscapes or urban-edge panoramas.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Cairo view across ordered concrete storage or drying beds, green fields and a distant mid-rise city skyline. — Rows of concrete basins fill the foreground below green fields and a distant Cairo skyline.

1946 Cairo panorama frame showing a gridded concrete storage area, low structures, green land and distant buildings. — The pan holds on the ordered storage grounds with city buildings across the horizon.

Elevated 1946 Cairo view over rectangular basins and fenced lanes toward green fields and an urban skyline. — An elevated view shows the storage complex leading toward fields and distant buildings.

1946 Cairo landscape with a gridded concrete storage lot, open green areas and soft distant city buildings. — The final frame shows the storage lot and fields under a soft, hazy skyline.

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