Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Felucca Sailboats Navigate The Canal With Steam Ship In Distance

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Felucca Sailboats Navigate The Canal With Steam Ship In... — Clip Details

SUEZ CANAL EGYPT-1946: Vintage 8mm film captures traditional felucca sailboats gliding along the Suez Canal. The narrow waterway is flanked by flat, arid banks under a hazy sky, with a steam-powered vessel visible in the distance. The footage, shot from a moving perspective, shows the iconic triangular sails of the wooden boats as they navigate the canal, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century transportation and daily life in Egypt. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame borders of a home movie.

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: 124756331

Rights & Clearance

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 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: Useful for 1940s documentary or educational edits needing Suez Canal transportation, traditional sailboats, and mid-century waterway travel seen through home-movie footage.
Period detail: The triangular felucca sails, flat canal banks, hazy color stock, and distant vessel support a mid-1940s canal travel view without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective from a moving vantage point, observing working sailboats and canal traffic rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include felucca sailboats, broad canal water, low embankments, flat desert-edge terrain, hazy sky, distant craft, and black 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate weave, and dark frame edges that read as authentic scanned 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief insert, travel transition, canal cutaway, or memory beat linking maritime movement with postwar-era Egyptian location material.
Historical context: The scene shows sail-powered local boats sharing a major canal corridor with distant larger traffic, suggesting everyday transport activity along the waterway.
Research note: People may be present only as tiny boat occupants, so likeness risk appears low but should still be reviewed separately from copyright and location rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s Suez Canal home movie footage, Egypt felucca sailboats, vintage 8mm canal travel, and archival water transport scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt travel footage, then broader themes of sailboats, waterways, and mid-century transport.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal home-movie frame showing a felucca with a triangular sail moving along the canal near flat banks. — A felucca passes along the canal with low banks and distant sailboats visible ahead.

Felucca sailboat on the Suez Canal, filmed in soft 8mm color with flat banks and distant canal traffic. — The sailboat stays close to the canal edge as other craft appear farther down the waterway.

The felucca continues along the canal, framed by open water and a long low embankment.

Two felucca sailboats appear on the Suez Canal, one close to camera and another crossing farther back. — Two sailboats share the canal, with the nearer felucca passing in front of flat open banks.

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