Cairo Egypt-1946: Horse Racing on Dusty Track

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

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Horse Racing on Dusty Track — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Cairo, Egypt, 1946, showing a horse race on a dusty grass track. Jockeys in light-colored silks ride horses along a curved path bordered by a white fence and green bushes. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, capturing the energetic pace of the race under bright daylight. The clip offers authentic retro footage of mid-20th century equestrian sport, with a nostalgic, archival quality ideal for historical or documentary 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: 122715583

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 Cairo or Egypt archive requests needing brief home-movie evidence of horse racing, equestrian sport, leisure, or outdoor recreation.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-1940s racecourse activity, with jockey silks, a curved grass track, low white rail, and planted borders visible from an elevated viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the spectator-like home-movie angle, watching a small pack of riders move through the bend without staged action or formal coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include galloping horses, jockeys in light and dark silks, a white track rail, green turf, planted bushes, long shadows, and black film borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that add physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quick insert, sports cutaway, period leisure transition, or kinetic memory beat within a sequence on Cairo or equestrian culture.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for organized horse racing as a public leisure activity in Cairo, while the frames do not identify the venue, race, or participants.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so copyright, likeness, venue, and any racecourse permissions should be reviewed separately before commercial use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Cairo 8mm horse race footage, vintage Egypt equestrian sport, home movie racecourse, jockeys on grass track, and mid-century leisure scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Cairo 1946 material, then broader Egypt recreation, sport, horse racing, or outdoor leisure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Cairo home-movie frame showing racehorses and jockeys entering a bend on green turf beside a white track rail. — Jockeys ride into the curve along a fenced grass track.

1946 Cairo racecourse view with several jockeys clustered on horses along a curved grass track beside dense planting. — The pack moves together along the rail-lined curve.

1946 Cairo horse race frame showing riders bunched near the inside rail as a dark horse runs wider on the grass. — Riders bunch near the rail while one horse runs wider.

1946 Cairo home-movie frame of the horse race continuing along the bend, with riders spread across the grass track. — The race continues along the curved fenced track.

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