Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Blue Shore And White Sands With Greenery In The Distant

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Blue Shore And White Sands With Greenery In The Distant — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of the Suez Canal in Egypt. The footage, framed by a dark border, shows a calm blue waterway running alongside a wide expanse of white sand. In the distance, a line of greenery and low structures marks the horizon under a pale sky. The image exhibits natural film grain, slight blurriness, and subtle scratches, characteristic of mid-20th century amateur footage. The perspective suggests movement along the canal, offering a nostalgic glimpse of the region's landscape 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: 124759922

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: 1940s 8mm Suez Canal landscape footage for documentary inserts, travel-history sequences, or establishing cutaways needing quiet canal-side terrain without visible people.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-1940s amateur color footage, with no visible vehicles, signage, or landmarks beyond the canal edge, pale sand, distant greenery, and low horizon forms.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, observing the shoreline from a moving or handheld vantage point rather than staging a formal scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue canal water, white sandy banks, a pale sky, distant green vegetation, low horizon structures or mounds, dark film borders, and minor surface marks.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, gate borders, slight weave, and small scratches that signal original amateur-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, travel transition, shoreline cutaway, or reflective memory beat within Egypt, canal, or postwar travel material.
Historical context: The view places the canal landscape in a sparse shoreline setting, but the frames do not identify specific settlements, vessels, engineering works, or political events.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, though users should still confirm copyright status and any location-specific permissions for their project.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1946 Suez Canal 8mm footage, Egypt canal shoreline home movie, blue water white sand 1940s travel film, and vintage canal landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Egypt travel shots, then other 1946 Suez Canal footage, then broader 1940s shoreline, desert, waterway, and travel landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal home-movie frame showing blue water, white sand, and a low green horizon through dark 8mm film borders. — Canal water runs along a pale sandy bank with distant greenery on the horizon.

1946 Suez Canal view with a broad white sand bank, blue water at right, distant vegetation, and soft 8mm texture. — A broad sand bank borders the canal, with low greenery visible across the horizon.

Soft 8mm 1946 Suez Canal frame showing a sloping sandy shore, blue canal water, and a dark green horizon line. — The shoreline slopes toward the canal, with vegetation forming a narrow distant band.

1946 Suez Canal home-movie frame with blue water, white sand, distant green shoreline, dark borders, and visible film wear. — Blue canal water fills the foreground beside a pale sandy edge and distant vegetation.

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