Suez Canal Egypt-1946: White Minaret and Desert Landscape

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

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White Minaret and Desert Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a hazy view of the Suez Canal region in Egypt. The clip opens on a white minaret rising above low-rise buildings under a pale sky, then pans across a vast, flat desert landscape. The footage shows natural film grain, slight blurriness, and the characteristic frame borders of an old Super 8 home movie. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century Egyptian architecture and arid terrain, ideal for historical documentaries or period projects.

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: 124756373

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: 1940s 8mm Egypt footage for productions needing a brief establishing view of the Suez Canal region, a minaret, and surrounding desert terrain.
Period detail: The white minaret, low flat-roofed buildings, sparse poles, and open sand may show mid-century canal-side settlement and arid infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld pan has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering briefly on the minaret before drifting across the open desert horizon.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white minaret, low buildings, pale sky, sandy ground, distant horizon, utility poles, dark frame borders, and film scratches.
Film character: Soft focus, faded color, visible grain, gate borders, and light vertical scratches give the 8mm scan a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, transition, or cutaway between travel, canal-region, or postwar Egypt sequences.
Historical context: The clip visually situates a built religious landmark beside a broad arid landscape, without confirming a specific town, event, or canal activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and property or religious-site context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1946 8mm Egypt minaret, Suez Canal desert landscape home movie, and 1940s Egyptian travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt views, then broader desert travel and minaret material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm view of a white minaret and low buildings in the Suez Canal region, seen through soft focus and visible film wear. — A white minaret rises above low structures at the edge of a hazy desert view.

Sandy Suez Canal region landscape with a low horizon, sparse pole, and faded 8mm color during the pan away from the minaret. — The pan moves across a flat sandy expanse with a faint horizon and sparse vertical pole.

Open desert terrain in the Suez Canal region, with small dark marks on the sand, a pale horizon, and visible 8mm scratches. — A wide, hazy desert view fills the frame during the handheld pan.

Final 1946 Suez Canal region frame showing flat sandy terrain, faint poles, and the aged borders of the 8mm film scan. — The shot settles on flat desert terrain with sparse poles and a washed, hazy horizon.

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