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Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Drifting Down The River And Taking In The Sights Along

  • Year1946
  • Decade1940s
  • LocationSuez Canal, Egypt
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1946 Egypt
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Drifting Down The River And Taking In The Sights Along — 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 Digitally Restored
License
Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
124759888

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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Topics & Keywords

  • river
  • banks
  • drifting
  • water
  • sights
  • travel
  • transportation
  • bank
  • SUEZ canal egypt
  • 1946
  • Suez Canal Egypt 1946
  • vintage 8mm film
  • 1940s travel footage
  • canal boat
  • river transportation
  • historic Egypt
  • archival footage
  • retro travel
  • 8mm home movie
  • vintage travel
  • 1940s Egypt
  • canal side
  • old film
  • nostalgic footage
  • documentary footage
  • vintage footage
  • 8mm film
  • travel history

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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