Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Boat Ride Past Monument On Waterfront

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Boat Ride Past Monument On Waterfront — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a boat ride along the Suez Canal in Egypt. The clip opens with a title card from the U.S. Navy's Africa-Middle East Command, then transitions to a view of a prominent white monument on a waterfront promenade. The camera glides past the structure, showing its obelisk shape and surrounding greenery, with buildings and industrial smokestacks visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film imperfections, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century Egypt.

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: 124759840

Rights & Clearance

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 (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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s Egypt canal travel footage for documentary or museum sequences needing a waterfront monument seen from a moving boat.
Period detail: The frames show a white waterfront monument, low buildings, palms or dense greenery, and distant smokestacks that may indicate mid-century canal-side development.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot boat perspective, with the landmark observed in passing rather than staged for a formal view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue canal water, a white obelisk-like monument, a curved promenade wall, trees, low buildings, distant smokestacks, and soft sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, exposure variation, color fading, gate edges, and contact-sheet framing that give the footage physical archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing cutaway, travel insert, or transitional memory beat within a Suez Canal or postwar Egypt sequence.
Historical context: The view documents a canal-side public landmark and waterfront setting, while the exact monument identity and surrounding facilities should be checked before narration.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still verify copyright status and any location or monument-related property concerns for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1946 Suez Canal 8mm boat ride, Egypt waterfront monument home movie, and postwar canal-side landmark footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt waterfront shots, then broader boat-travel views of monuments and canal infrastructure.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal home-movie frame showing a white waterfront monument, promenade, trees, and buildings from a moving boat. — A boat passes a white monument on a canal-side promenade, with greenery and buildings behind it.

Suez Canal, Egypt frame with the obelisk-like monument centered near the water, backed by dark trees and low structures. — The monument comes into clearer view as the boat moves along the waterfront.

1940s Egypt canal-side view showing a white monument on the promenade with trees, buildings, and distant industrial smoke. — The passing view includes the monument, promenade, and canal-side structures beyond the water.

Final 1946 Suez Canal frame showing the white waterfront monument, blue water, greenery, and background buildings in soft 8mm color. — The monument remains visible as the boat continues past the canal-side promenade.

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