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Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Desert Landscape Viewed Through Window

  • Year1946
  • Decade1940s
  • LocationSuez Canal, Egypt
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1946 Egypt
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Desert Landscape Viewed Through Window — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a sweeping desert landscape viewed through a window frame, likely from a train or vehicle traveling along the Suez Canal in Egypt. The scene features a vast, flat expanse of sandy terrain stretching toward distant, hazy mountains under a pale sky. The image shows natural film grain, slight blurriness, and subtle scratches, characteristic of archival home movie footage. The camera remains steady, offering a continuous, contemplative view of the arid environment, evoking a sense of travel and historical observation during the mid-20th century.

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
124759896

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

  • dirt
  • mountain
  • rocks
  • road
  • sky
  • desert
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  • 8mm film
  • vintage home movie
  • archival footage
  • train view
  • arid terrain
  • mountain range
  • old film
  • historical travel
  • wartime era
  • Middle East
  • 1940s travel
  • documentary footage
  • nostalgic travel
  • military history
  • wartime travel
  • desert journey
  • vintage travel footage
  • 8mm home movie

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1940s archival requests needing a travel-view desert landscape from the Suez Canal region for documentary, museum, education, or editorial context.
Period detail
The view may show mid-1940s travel through arid canal-side terrain, with no visible modern structures, vehicles, signage, or people in the sampled frames.
Home-movie behavior
The clip has a passenger's observational perspective, filmed through a dark window or vehicle frame as the landscape passes rather than staged for the camera.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include pale sky, flat sandy ground, distant low hills or mountains, a dark window divider, faint shoreline or canal water, film edges, and small specks of dust.
Film character
The 8mm scan carries soft focus, muted color, light grain, gate framing, scratches, and exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a travel insert, geographic transition, contemplative cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about Egypt, transit, desert routes, or the canal area.
Historical context
The footage presents the Suez Canal region as seen by a traveler in 1946, emphasizing open desert and distant terrain rather than identifiable infrastructure or public activity.
Research note
No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright status and location identification should be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1946 8mm Egypt desert travel footage, Suez Canal landscape from window, vintage home movie arid landscape, and 1940s canal-region cutaway.
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 vintage window-view material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal region desert terrain with hazy distant hills, viewed through a dark window or vehicle frame.
Desert plain and distant hills seen through a window frame.
Muted 8mm view of flat sandy terrain near the Suez Canal region, framed by a dark vertical window edge.
Flat arid terrain recedes toward a low hazy ridge.
1946 canal-region view with pale shoreline, flat desert, blue water, and a dark window edge in the foreground.
A strip of water borders the pale desert landscape.
Soft 8mm frame of the Suez Canal region, showing water, sandy bank, open desert, and a distant hazy horizon.
Water and sandy bank pass below an open desert horizon.

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