Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Flat Plains Landscape at Suez Canal

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

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Flat Plains Landscape at Suez Canal — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this archival footage captures a wide, flat landscape at the Suez Canal in Egypt. The frame shows a vast expanse of green and brown plains under a pale, overcast sky, with a distinct horizontal line separating the earth from the horizon. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, subtle grain, and slight color fading typical of mid-20th century home movies. The scene is static, with no visible subjects or movement, emphasizing the quiet, expansive nature of the terrain. This authentic, unedited clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century Egypt, ideal for historical documentaries or period pieces.

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: 124756350

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.

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 (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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary or period productions needing a brief establishing view of flat terrain along the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-1940s canal-side plains, with only open land, a low horizon, and faded color offering era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The static framing has the quality of a traveler pausing to record a broad landscape from a distant, unstaged viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale sky, flat green-brown ground, a narrow horizon band, soft focus, film scratches, and dark contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted color, fine grain, vertical scratches, and slight exposure variation consistent with home-movie film stock.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, quiet transition, or geographic cutaway in a sequence about Egypt, travel, canals, or open terrain.
Historical context: The view gives visual context for a sparse canal-region landscape without showing people, structures, vessels, or identifiable activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and location attribution should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 8mm Egypt landscape footage, Suez Canal plains, mid-century home movie terrain, and archival desert-green horizon views.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt footage, then broader 1940s travel-landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal area footage showing a distant flat plain beneath a pale sky, framed by dark 8mm contact-sheet borders. — Flat canal-region landscape with a low horizon and pale sky.

A soft 8mm view of flat terrain near the Suez Canal in Egypt, with muted ground tones and a broad pale sky. — Wide, static view across flat green-brown terrain.

Static 1946 home-movie frame of flat Suez Canal area plains, with a pale sky and visible film wear. — Blurred open plain beneath a pale, nearly empty sky.

The final frame shows flat open ground near the Suez Canal, a pale sky, and aged 8mm film texture. — Low horizon and open terrain in a quiet static landscape shot.

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