Suez Canal Egypt-1946: An Old Video Of Passing The River In A Boat

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An Old Video Of Passing The River In A Boat — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage footage captures a boat journey through the Suez Canal in Egypt. The view, framed by the boat's structure, shows the canal's calm waters flanked by sandy banks and distant tree lines under a hazy sky. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and subtle camera movement evoke a nostalgic, archival feel, offering a rare glimpse of mid-20th century transportation and engineering.

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: 124759930

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary or education edits needing home-movie views of boat travel through the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Period detail: The frames show a canal-side passage with sandy banks, low shoreline structures, trees and boat rigging, consistent with the supplied 1946 Egypt metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective from aboard a moving boat, recording the canal landscape through railings and rigging rather than staging a formal view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm canal water, pale sandy embankments, distant trees, boat rigging, dark frame edges, shoreline posts and small canal-side structures.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, faded color, visible grain, slight exposure drift and handheld movement that support its archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, geographic transition, canal cutaway or brief memory beat within a mid-century Egypt sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents canal transit and waterside infrastructure from a passenger viewpoint without identifying a specific vessel, company or event.
Research note: No people, logos or brands are visible, but copyright, location context and any property or infrastructure permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 8mm Suez Canal footage, Egypt boat travel home movie, mid-century canal passage and vintage waterway transit views.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Egypt travel shots, then other 1946 Suez Canal material, then broader boat, canal and mid-century transport footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal view from a moving boat, with calm water, pale banks and foreground rigging under a hazy sky. — Boat-facing view along the canal with sandy banks and rigging crossing the frame.

1946 Suez Canal passage with water ahead, pale shoreline and boat rigging visible at the right side of the frame. — Forward view along the canal as the boat passes low sandy banks.

Suez Canal shoreline in 1946, showing a pale sandy bank, calm water and a dark tree line beyond the embankment. — Passing view of the sandy canal edge with trees beyond the bank.

1946 Suez Canal bank with small shoreline structures, posts, trees and water visible from a passing boat. — Canal-side posts and small structures appear along the sandy embankment.

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