Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Street Market With People And A Cow

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Street Market With People And A Cow — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a bustling street market in Suez Canal, Egypt. The footage shows pedestrians in traditional attire navigating narrow lanes lined with shops and stalls selling goods. A man pushes a cart loaded with merchandise, while others walk or stand near vendors. The scene includes a cow walking through the street, highlighting daily life in a historic Middle Eastern city. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic Super 8 motion, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century Egyptian culture and urban life.

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: 124756658

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 sequences needing brief home-movie street-market views from the Suez Canal region of Egypt.
Period detail: The frames show narrow shopfront lanes, carts, loose street livestock, and pedestrians in light traditional clothing, consistent with the supplied 1946 home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes daily street movement from a traveler or passerby perspective, with people, vendors, carts, and a cow moving through the lane without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include narrow market streets, shop awnings, pedestrians in robes and veils, handcarts loaded with goods, stone or plaster facades, and a cow in the roadway.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, street-life cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition within a sequence about Egypt, markets, or postwar-era daily life.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for everyday commerce and pedestrian movement in an Egyptian street setting, without identifying a specific neighborhood or event.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and contextual use should be reviewed separately from film copyright and any archive license terms.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 8mm Egypt street market footage, Suez Canal region home movie, Middle Eastern street life, pedestrians, carts, and cow in market street.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt street scenes, then with broader market, travel, and everyday urban-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal region street-market view with pedestrians in light clothing, shop awnings, and a cart loaded with goods. — Pedestrians and a loaded cart move through a narrow market street lined with shops.

Suez Canal region market lane in 1946 with pedestrians, a loaded cart, shopfronts, and a veiled figure seen from behind. — A veiled pedestrian passes near a loaded cart in the market lane.

1946 Egyptian street view showing a cow walking through a narrow lane near shopfronts and pedestrians. — A cow walks through the street beside shops and passersby.

Suez Canal region street scene from 1946 with a cow in the roadway, pedestrians, and shop entrances along the lane. — A cow stands or walks in the roadway as pedestrians pass near shop entrances.

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