Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Boat Drifting on Suez Canal Past Palm Trees

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationSuez Canal, Egypt
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Egypt

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Boat Drifting on Suez Canal Past Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a boat drifting along the Suez Canal in Egypt. The footage shows a small vessel moving through calm turquoise water, with a low-slung building and palm trees lining the canal bank. The image has the characteristic grain, color fade, and soft focus of mid-century amateur film. The camera pans slightly, offering a nostalgic view of mid-20th century transportation and canal-side architecture. This archival clip evokes a sense of travel and history from the post-war era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124759888

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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 (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Suez Canal, Egypt Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 home-movie views of boat travel along Egypt's Suez Canal.
Period detail: The low canal-side building, small workboat, open water and soft color 8mm look support a mid-1940s travel-film setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip offers an unstaged visitor perspective from a moving boat, watching canal traffic and shoreline architecture drift past.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm turquoise water, a small dark vessel, a low waterfront building, trees, canal bank, open shoreline and hazy horizon.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fade, uneven exposure and handheld framing typical of amateur 8mm travel film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, canal cutaway or reflective memory beat in a postwar-era sequence.
Historical context: The views show canal-side movement and built shoreline in Egypt without enough visible detail to identify a specific landmark or event.
Research note: No people, logos or readable signage are visible, but copyright, location and any property-related questions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1946 Suez Canal 8mm footage, Egypt canal home movie, vintage boat travel and 1940s waterfront architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt travel footage, then broader vintage waterways and boat-travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal home-movie frame showing a small vessel near a tree-lined bank and low waterfront building. — A small vessel passes a tree-lined canal bank with a low building beyond.

A 1946 Suez Canal view from 8mm footage, with a small vessel in the foreground and a tree-lined waterfront behind it. — The camera looks across the canal toward a moored or passing vessel and shaded waterfront.

Soft 8mm view of the Suez Canal in 1946, with part of a boat, canal water, trees and a low shoreline building. — Part of the boat remains in view as the shoreline building and trees slide past.

1946 Suez Canal frame showing open water, a flat canal bank, distant hazy land and pale sky from a moving home-movie viewpoint. — The view opens to a quieter stretch of canal, flat bank and distant haze.

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