Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Video Taken Of Several Buildings Including A Church

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Video Taken Of Several Buildings Including A Church — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a slow pan across the Suez Canal in Egypt, showcasing a row of low-rise buildings and a prominent church with a tall steeple. The footage, viewed through a window frame, features warm, faded colors and classic film grain, with trees lining the waterfront. The camera moves steadily from left to right, revealing the historic architecture and tranquil canal environment, evoking a sense of mid-century nostalgia and archival charm.

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: 124759868

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: Useful for 1940s documentary or educational edits needing visitor-shot Suez Canal waterfront architecture and a church exterior in Egypt.
Period detail: The low-rise waterfront buildings, mature trees, and church steeple may show mid-20th-century canal-side architecture captured on 8mm film.
Home-movie behavior: The framing through a dark window or structural opening gives the clip the feel of a traveler observing the canal-side buildings from a moving or sheltered vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include canal water, a stone or concrete bank, low buildings, trees, a brick church tower, a pointed steeple, and dark window-frame edges.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm focus, muted color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld pan movement that support its home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, waterfront transition, travel-memory beat, or cutaway for Suez Canal and 1940s Egypt material.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a quiet canal-side built environment with religious architecture nearby, without showing identifiable people or street activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but the church and buildings should still be reviewed for copyright, location, property, and religious-context use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1946 Suez Canal Egypt 8mm footage, canal waterfront buildings, church steeple exterior, and vintage home-movie travel views.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Suez Canal scenes, then other 1946 Egypt waterfront footage, then broader 1940s travel architecture or church exterior clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal waterfront view with low buildings, trees, canal bank, and dark framing from a window or opening. — Low waterfront buildings and trees line the canal, partly framed by dark vertical edges.

1946 Suez Canal view with canal bank, low buildings, trees, and a church steeple entering the right side of frame. — The pan reveals more of the canal-side buildings and the edge of a church steeple.

1946 Suez Canal waterfront with a brick church tower, pointed steeple, nearby buildings, trees, and canal bank. — A church tower and steeple become prominent beside the row of canal-side buildings.

1946 Suez Canal scene showing a church tower and steeple among trees and low waterfront buildings. — The church tower remains visible as the camera continues across the waterfront scene.

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