Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Pair Of Blue Sailboats In Water On A Sunny Day

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationSuez Canal, Egypt
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Egypt

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Pair Of Blue Sailboats In Water On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

SUEZ CANAL EGYPT-1946: Two traditional felucca sailboats glide along the Suez Canal on a bright, sunny day. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the iconic triangular sails of the wooden boats as they navigate the waterway, with flat, arid landscape visible along the banks. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural motion, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century Egyptian water transport and daily life.

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: 124756347

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 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 (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Suez Canal, Egypt Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary or education edits needing Suez Canal water traffic, traditional sailboats, and Egyptian canal-side travel atmosphere.
Period detail: The felucca-style sails, open wooden boats, and flat canal banks may show mid-20th-century transport and recreation along the Suez Canal.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, following boats from the bank or another vessel without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two triangular-sailed boats, blue canal water, low green banks, pale desert flats, hazy sky, and tiny boat occupants.
Film character: The 8mm color scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild fading, frame-edge darkness, and handheld motion consistent with home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a canal cutaway, travel transition, establishing insert, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s Egypt sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for small sail-powered craft moving through a major Egyptian waterway, without identifying a specific event.
Research note: Copyright, location, and any visible likeness issues should be reviewed separately, especially because tiny occupants may be present but not identifiable.
Research search match: Research matches include 1940s Suez Canal feluccas, Egypt 8mm home movie sailboats, traditional boats on canal water, and vintage Egyptian waterways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt clips, then broader watercraft, travel, and canal transport footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two sailboats with triangular sails move along the Suez Canal in Egypt, with flat banks and hazy sky in the background. — Two traditional sailboats travel along the canal near low, open banks.

A pair of felucca-style boats crosses the Suez Canal, their sails silhouetted against pale banks and open sky. — The boats continue across the canal with the larger sail nearer the camera.

Two traditional sailboats are seen from an elevated or bank-side view on the Suez Canal, with open land beyond the water. — The pair of sailboats moves past the camera along the canal.

The final frame shifts away from the boats to a flat Suez Canal-side landscape with muted water, bank, and sky tones. — A brief landscape view follows the sailboat passage along the canal.

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