Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Passing By The Natural Scenery Of The Desert And The Sky

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Passing By The Natural Scenery Of The Desert And The Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a moving view from a train or vehicle traveling along the Suez Canal in Egypt. The footage shows a vast desert landscape under a hazy, overcast sky, with distant mountains visible on the horizon. The camera moves steadily, revealing the arid terrain, a concrete embankment, and the canal's edge. The image is grainy with film scratches and a dark vignette, characteristic of mid-century amateur footage. A bird briefly flies across the frame, adding to the sense of motion and place. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of the region's natural scenery during 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: 124759890

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 a brief travel-view cutaway of the Suez Canal desert landscape from amateur 8mm footage.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-1940s canal-side infrastructure, with a low concrete embankment, open desert flats, distant hills, and no modern vehicles or signage visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a traveler filming through a moving train or vehicle window, valuing the passing landscape more than a composed scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include canal water at the lower edge, a pale concrete bank, broad desert flats, hazy distant hills, overcast sky, and dark frame edges from the film gate.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm texture, muted color, visible grain, scratches, slight exposure variation, and a strong dark vignette that reads as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a geographic establishing insert, travel transition, memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway between scenes about Egypt, transit, or canal-side movement.
Historical context: The view provides visual context for canal-side travel in postwar-era Egypt without showing identifiable people, named landmarks, military activity, or commercial signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, archive ownership, and location identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1940s 8mm Suez Canal footage, Egypt desert travel views, canal embankment from moving vehicle, and vintage home-movie landscape cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt travel footage, then broader desert transit and canal landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal area view from moving 8mm footage, with water, concrete embankment, open desert, distant hills, and overcast sky. — Passing view of the canal edge and desert landscape with distant hills on the horizon.

Suez Canal desert landscape in 1946, showing a pale bank, broad flat terrain, distant mountain ridge, and soft hazy light. — Flat desert terrain and a low embankment pass in front of a distant ridge.

Canal-side desert view in Egypt, with a concrete edge in the foreground, flat arid land, distant hills, and visible 8mm film grain. — The moving camera passes a canal-side bank and open desert under a muted sky.

1946 Suez Canal area view with a pale embankment, open desert flats, distant hills, and small indistinct structures near the horizon. — A broad desert view beside the canal, with small distant structures near the hills.

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