Cairo Egypt-1946: Jockeys Racing on Grass Track

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

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Jockeys Racing on Grass Track — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm film footage from Cairo, Egypt, in 1946 captures a horse race on a grass track. Jockeys in period racing silks ride horses along the back stretch, with a white rail lining the course. The scene unfolds under bright daylight, showing green grass, manicured hedges, and distant buildings. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and natural color fading, offering authentic archival material for historical or nostalgic 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: 122715595

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 Egypt archive requests needing professional horse racing, leisure sport, or racecourse atmosphere as documentary or editorial insert footage.
Period detail: The white rail, manicured grass course, distant low buildings, and jockey silks may show mid-1940s racecourse details in Cairo, supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The view feels filmed from a spectator position, holding on the race action from a distance rather than staging subjects for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include racehorses, jockeys, a white course rail, green turf, clipped hedges, distant buildings, spectators or staff, and strong daylight.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight motion blur, faded color, and uneven exposure that read as authentic home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, sports-history cutaway, transition, or period memory beat for Cairo leisure and horse racing sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually places organized horse racing within a landscaped urban course setting, with people visible mainly as distant riders and onlookers.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are evident, and copyright clearance is separate from depicted-person or property review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s Cairo horse racing, Egypt racecourse footage, vintage 8mm sports film, jockeys on grass track, and archival home-movie racing.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Cairo or Egypt footage from 1946, then broader 1940s sport, leisure, and horse racing archive material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Cairo racecourse view with horses and jockeys moving along the grass track, seen from a distant spectator angle. — Jockeys and horses pass along the back stretch behind the white course rail.

Cairo horse racing scene with the course rail, turf, hedges, distant buildings, and small figures visible in bright daylight. — The racecourse rail and landscaped grounds frame the distant racing action.

1946 Cairo racecourse detail showing white railing, green turf, hedges, and distant people near the trackside buildings. — Trackside buildings and hedges sit beyond the white rail on the grass course.

Distant 1946 Cairo racing view with horses and jockeys spread along a curved turf course inside a white rail. — Horses and jockeys move around the curve of the grass racecourse.

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