Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Desert Landscape with Distant Mountains

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

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Desert Landscape with Distant Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of the Suez Canal region in Egypt. Filmed from a moving vehicle, the clip shows a vast desert landscape with a distant mountain range under a hazy sky. A road or embankment runs through the foreground, with sparse vegetation and a small settlement visible in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, offering authentic archival material for historical documentaries, travel narratives, or nostalgic content.

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: 124759892

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: 1940s 8mm home-movie landscape footage suited to documentary inserts about travel, transit, geography, or the Suez Canal region in Egypt.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-1940s roadside or embankment view, with open desert flats, a distant settlement, and hazy hills visible from a moving vehicle.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, observing the landscape in passing rather than staging a composed scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a road or embankment edge, flat desert ground, sparse vegetation, distant low buildings, hazy hills, and a pale daytime sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, color fading, gate edges, dust marks, and slight motion blur that support its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, geographic cutaway, or memory beat within a 1940s Egypt sequence.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for open land and settlement along the Suez Canal region without identifying a specific landmark or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or clearly identifiable private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s Egypt 8mm desert landscape, Suez Canal region home movie, roadside desert hills, and vintage travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt footage, then broader 1940s travel landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm view in the Suez Canal region showing flat desert ground, distant settlement traces, hazy hills, and a foreground road edge. — Flat desert terrain and distant hills seen across a foreground embankment.

1946 Suez Canal region landscape with a pale sky, flat open ground, distant low structures, and hazy hills beyond the road edge. — Open desert plain with low distant structures and hazy hills in the background.

8mm home-movie frame from the Suez Canal region showing desert flats, a faint distant settlement, low hills, and foreground roadside blur. — Roadside view across desert flats toward a faint settlement and low hills.

1946 8mm landscape view near the Suez Canal, with a broad flat plain, hazy mountain ridge, and pale roadside strip in the foreground. — Broad flat landscape with a hazy ridge and pale roadside strip in front.

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