Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Sandy Desert Landscape with Distant Trees

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

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Sandy Desert Landscape with Distant Trees — Clip Details

Shot from a moving vessel on the Suez Canal in Egypt, this 1946 8mm home movie captures a hazy, sun-drenched view of a vast sandy landscape. The camera pans across the arid terrain, revealing pale dunes and a distant treeline under a muted sky. The footage, framed by the dark edge of a window or porthole, shows subtle motion blur and natural film grain, evoking a sense of travel and historical observation. This authentic archival clip offers a rare glimpse of the Egyptian desert during the mid-20th century.

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: 124759918

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: Supports requests for 1940s Suez Canal travel views, vessel-shot desert landscape cutaways, or mid-century Egypt archival atmosphere for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The soft color, 8mm frame edges, hazy exposure, and vessel-window framing support a 1940s home-movie travel context without showing identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a passenger filming from a moving vessel, recording the passing canal-side landscape without staging or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale sand flats, a narrow strip of water, distant green trees, hazy sky, dark window or film-frame edges, and slight motion blur.
Film character: The footage shows period 8mm texture with grain, muted color, uneven exposure, soft focus, and handheld or moving-platform instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing cutaway, travel transition, geographic insert, or quiet memory beat in a sequence about Egypt, shipping, or canal passage.
Historical context: The view presents canal-side arid terrain and distant vegetation from a traveler perspective, offering visual context rather than evidence of a specific site or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still assess copyright, source provenance, and project-specific location or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s Suez Canal home movie, Egypt desert from boat, 8mm canal-side landscape, and vintage travel footage with distant trees.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt travel clips, then with broader mid-century vessel and desert landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal home-movie view of pale sandy ground, a water edge, and a distant treeline under a hazy sky. — Pale sand flats and distant trees pass beside the canal.

Vessel-shot 1946 Suez Canal view with pale dunes or sand flats, canal water, and a far green treeline. — Canal water borders a broad sandy stretch with trees beyond.

Soft 8mm frame of the Suez Canal edge, showing sand flats, water, and a low treeline in the distance. — A moving view along the canal-side sand and distant vegetation.

1946 Egypt canal passage view with water in the foreground, pale sandy land, and distant trees beneath a muted sky. — Water, sand, and a distant treeline fill the passing canal view.

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