Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Quiet Rural Area With Ship Mast And Canal Views

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Quiet Rural Area With Ship Mast And Canal Views — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a quiet rural scene along the Suez Canal in Egypt. The view, framed by a window, shows a calm day with a prominent ship's mast rising above low buildings and palm trees. The landscape features a canal, a road, and simple structures under a hazy sky, conveying a sense of stillness and historical atmosphere. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight camera shake, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124756280

Rights & Clearance

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 1726 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: reel 2
Reel-level year note: 1946
Reel-level location note: india,suez canal,calcutta
Date: 1946 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Suez Canal, Egypt Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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: Supports 1940s Egypt or Suez Canal requests needing a quiet rural canal-side establishing view for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-1940s canal-side buildings, palms, a road or towpath, and a tall ship mast seen through a window from a home-movie vantage point.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged traveler or resident view, filmed from behind a window or opening while observing a calm canal-side scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a canal or waterway, low buildings, palm trees, roadside edges, a tall mast, hazy sky, dark window framing, and film gate borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, muted color, exposure variation, and slight handheld instability that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, geographic transition, reflective cutaway, or memory beat within a 1940s Egypt or canal sequence.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for everyday canal-side surroundings, with modest structures and vegetation rather than crowds, ceremonies, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any visible property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1940s Suez Canal home movie, Egypt canal-side 8mm footage, rural canal view, ship mast through window, or vintage travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt material, and then with quiet canal, travel, or rural infrastructure views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal, Egypt home-movie frame showing a quiet canal-side area with palms, low buildings, a road, and a tall mast. — A mast rises above low canal-side buildings and palm trees in a hazy rural view.

1946 Suez Canal, Egypt frame with a mast above palms and low buildings, seen from a shaded window or opening. — The canal-side scene remains still, with palms and a mast visible beyond the road.

1946 Suez Canal, Egypt home-movie frame showing water in the foreground, roadside buildings, palms, and a tall mast. — Water and a small boat-like form appear in the foreground below the canal-side road.

1946 Suez Canal, Egypt frame showing low canal-side structures, palms, a road, and a mast near the right edge. — The view shifts slightly along the canal-side buildings and palms, still framed by dark vertical edges.

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