Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Waterfront Building And Dock With Palm Trees

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Waterfront Building And Dock With Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a sun-drenched waterfront scene along the Suez Canal in Egypt. The clip reveals a long, low-rise building with a terracotta roof and light-colored walls, framed by swaying palm trees. A small dock with a boat is visible in the foreground, with calm turquoise water reflecting the bright sky. The image shows classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century Egyptian architecture and canal 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: 124759879

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 editorial requests needing Suez Canal waterfront atmosphere, canal-side architecture, or a quiet Egypt travel cutaway from original 8mm footage.
Period detail: The pale low-rise waterfront building, tiled roof, palms, dock, and small boat may show mid-1940s canal-side infrastructure and leisure or service areas in Egypt.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective from across the water, holding on architecture and shoreline activity rather than staging a formal landmark view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include turquoise canal water, a long pale building, terracotta rooflines, palms or windblown trees, a quay wall, dock pilings, and a small boat.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, and small exposure shifts that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, waterfront transition, geographic cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a Suez Canal or Egypt sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for canal-side built environment and waterside movement without confirming the building's identity or function.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are apparent, but location and building identification should be reviewed separately from copyright and property considerations.
Research search match: Searches such as 1940s Suez Canal 8mm waterfront, Egypt canal building dock, vintage home movie canal boat, and Egyptian waterfront palms may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt footage, then broader waterfront architecture and canal-travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal waterfront view with a pale building, tiled roof, trees, quay wall, and calm water in the foreground. — Pale canal-side building seen across the water with trees along the quay.

Suez Canal shoreline with a long pale building, trees, quay wall, turquoise water, and a small dock edge entering from the right. — The camera holds on the waterfront building as dock structure appears at the right edge.

1946 canal waterfront with windblown trees, the pale building partly obscured, and a small boat or dock structure in the foreground. — Trees obscure part of the building while a small vessel or dock sits near the canal edge.

Suez Canal view with a small dark boat or docked craft in the foreground, trees along the quay, and a pale waterfront building behind. — A small craft sits near the dock as the tree-lined waterfront building remains in the background.

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