Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Boats In The River Around The City With Beautiful Scenery

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Boats In The River Around The City With Beautiful Scenery — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of the Suez Canal in Egypt. The footage, framed by the dark edges of a window or boat porthole, shows a calm waterway with small boats and docks along the shoreline. In the distance, low-rise buildings with flat roofs and palm trees line the canal, reflecting a mid-century Egyptian urban landscape. The image is soft and slightly grainy, with faded colors typical of 8mm film from the era, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The camera appears to move slowly along the canal, offering a peaceful glimpse of daily life and infrastructure along the historic waterway.

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: 124759855

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s 8mm Egypt canal footage suited for documentary inserts, travel-history sequences, infrastructure context, or mid-century waterfront establishing shots.
Period detail: Flat-roofed low-rise buildings, palm trees, small docks, and a canal-side embankment may show a mid-century urban waterfront along the Suez Canal.
Home-movie behavior: The view appears filmed from a moving boat or behind a dark window edge, giving it the observational feel of a traveler recording scenery from the water.
What appears in frame: The frames show calm blue water, a canal bank, small wooden docks, low buildings, palm trees, distant rooftops, and dark vertical window or film-edge framing.
Film character: Soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and rounded dark frame edges give the scan a recognizable 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, waterfront cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s Egypt sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for canal-side buildings and waterfront infrastructure without showing identifiable people, signs, or specific named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, archive license terms, and any property or location sensitivities should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s Egypt 8mm home movie, Suez Canal waterfront, vintage canal boat view, and mid-century Egyptian shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt footage, then broader vintage canal, river, boat, and waterfront travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal view with calm water, a low building, palm trees, and a small dock seen through dark framing. — Canal-side buildings and a small dock appear across calm water.

1946 Suez Canal shoreline with flat-roofed buildings, palms, a small dock, and blue water below. — A shoreline building and dock pass across the canal view.

1946 Suez Canal waterfront showing low buildings, palms, a sloped embankment, and dock structures. — Low buildings and dock structures line the canal bank.

1946 Suez Canal view with calm water, low waterfront buildings, palms, docks, and pale sky. — Small docks and low buildings continue along the canal-side shoreline.

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