Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Empty Desert Road Viewed From Moving Vehicle

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

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Empty Desert Road Viewed From Moving Vehicle — Clip Details

SUEZ CANAL EGYPT-1946: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a vast, empty desert landscape viewed from a moving vehicle. The frame is bordered by dark window edges, emphasizing the perspective of a passenger. A flat, sandy road stretches into the hazy distance under a pale sky, with a distant horizon line. A small bird flies across the sky in one frame, adding a sense of scale and motion. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight blurriness, and a muted color palette, evoking a sense of quiet isolation and mid-century travel. This archival clip is ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific projects.

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: 124759900

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 footage suited to documentary or educational requests for passenger-view travel near the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century travel through a sparse canal-side desert landscape, with the vehicle window framing and muted 8mm color as era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a traveler filming through a vehicle window rather than composing a formal scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark window edges, pale sky, sandy flat ground, a distant horizon, blue water or shadowed canal edge, and a small bird in one frame.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, slight gate marks, muted color, and handheld vehicle movement give the footage clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, road-travel cutaway, transition, or quiet memory beat in a period sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a sparse desert route near the Suez Canal area without showing people, vehicles, signage, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, audible music, or private property are visible, but copyright status and location attribution should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s Egypt 8mm desert road, Suez Canal home movie travel, and moving vehicle view across desert landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal Egypt clips, then broader 1940s desert travel or road-view material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal, Egypt home-movie view of a flat desert road and hazy horizon from inside a moving vehicle. — A sandy road and distant horizon pass behind dark window edges.

Passenger-window view near the Suez Canal area, with flat desert ground, pale sky, and a distant low horizon. — The vehicle passes a sparse desert landscape under a washed pale sky.

1946 Egypt travel footage showing a hazy desert horizon and darker canal-side or roadside foreground from a vehicle window. — A low horizon and darker foreground band slide through the passenger view.

Suez Canal area travel view with pale desert, a low horizon, and a dark blue foreground edge framed by the vehicle window. — The final frame holds the same open desert view with window edges visible.

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