Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Old Time Blurry Film Of A Landscape Of An Empty Desert

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

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Old Time Blurry Film Of A Landscape Of An Empty Desert — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this clip captures a vast, empty desert landscape viewed through a grainy, aged lens. The frame is dominated by a flat, sandy terrain stretching to a pale horizon under a muted sky. The image is soft and blurry, with visible film grain, scratches, and dust typical of vintage home movie footage. The dark borders suggest a projected film reel, enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality. This raw, unedited glimpse of the Suez Canal region in Egypt offers a rare, authentic look at the mid-20th century desert environment.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124756360

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 editorial sequences needing brief, non-populated desert landscape footage from the Suez Canal region.
Period detail: The footage may show a mid-1940s desert or canal-region view, with no visible vehicles, buildings, people, or modern infrastructure in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a traveler-shot home-movie perspective, holding briefly on a distant flat horizon from a moving or handheld viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flat desert ground, a pale horizon band, muted sky, soft focus, dark film borders, dust specks, scratches, and a vertical frame divider.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, uneven exposure, film grain, dust, scratches, and dark gate edges that give it clear physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, transitional cutaway, or quiet memory beat for desert travel or Suez Canal-region context.
Historical context: The frames present a sparse arid landscape without visible human activity, emphasizing terrain and atmosphere rather than identifiable events or landmarks.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and location identification should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 8mm Egypt desert footage, Suez Canal region landscape, vintage home movie desert horizon, and archival arid terrain cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt footage, then broader vintage desert travel landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm view of a flat desert landscape in the Suez Canal region, seen through soft focus with dark frame edges and film wear. — Flat desert terrain recedes toward a pale horizon under a muted sky.

Soft 8mm frame of the Suez Canal region landscape, showing empty desert ground, a distant horizon, and aged film texture. — A blurred desert horizon is framed by dark 8mm gate edges.

1946 home-movie frame showing a sparse desert view near the Suez Canal region, with soft focus and visible physical-film marks. — Sparse desert ground and a bright horizon line fill the frame.

Soft 8mm view of empty desert terrain in the Suez Canal region, with a distant horizon and visible grain, dust, and scratches. — Empty desert terrain stretches toward a pale, distant horizon.

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