Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Driving Down Street Past Two Brick Buildings In A Small

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Driving Down Street Past Two Brick Buildings In A Small — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a moving view of a quiet town along the Suez Canal in Egypt. The camera glides past a prominent brick church with a tall steeple, surrounded by lush green trees and traditional buildings with flat roofs. The footage, viewed through a window frame, shows a sunlit street scene with a calm, nostalgic atmosphere. The warm color palette and film grain evoke a sense of mid-century history and everyday life in a small Egyptian community.

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: 124759872

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 editorial sequences needing Suez Canal region street views, colonial-era town architecture, or home-movie travel footage from Egypt.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-20th-century masonry buildings, flat-roofed structures, a church steeple, sparse street activity, and canal-side road edges consistent with the 1946 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The view feels visitor-shot from a moving vehicle or window, recording ordinary streetscape and buildings rather than a staged landmark presentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brick church with steeple, pale multi-story building, trees, paved street, canal or roadside embankment, window-frame edges, and soft sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight exposure fluctuation, and contact-sheet framing that give the footage physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat for Suez Canal region material.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for a quiet built environment along the Suez Canal area without showing crowds, commerce, military presence, or named events.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are indicated, but the church-like building and surrounding property should be reviewed for copyright, property, and location identification limits.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1946 Suez Canal home movie, 8mm Egypt street scene, brick church steeple Egypt, and 1940s canal town architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt exteriors, then broader 1940s travel footage of streets, churches, and town buildings.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal area view of a brick church with steeple, nearby pale building, trees, and quiet street seen through dark window framing. — Moving view past a brick church, trees, and canal-side street in the Suez Canal area.

Suez Canal area street scene with a brick church steeple, trees, pale multi-story building, and canal-side edge in soft 8mm color. — The camera passes a church steeple and pale building along a quiet street.

Moving 1946 Suez Canal area view with the church partly cropped, a pale building centered, trees, and a road beside a low canal edge. — A pale building comes into clearer view as the church slips to the edge of frame.

Suez Canal area exterior showing a pale multi-story building, trees, quiet street, and canal-side embankment framed by the 8mm window view. — The shot continues past trees and a pale building along the canal-side street.

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