Suez Canal Egypt-1946: View Of Green Trees And River On A Sunny Day

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View Of Green Trees And River On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of the Suez Canal in Egypt. The clip shows a calm waterway bordered by concrete embankments, with lush green trees and foliage lining the far shore. A military-style truck is parked near the canal edge, suggesting wartime or post-war activity. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and natural color fading typical of mid-century home movies. The scene unfolds on a bright, sunny day, with the camera slowly panning across the tranquil landscape, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century Egypt.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124759934

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

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary or educational edits needing Suez Canal home-movie views of water, embankments, roadside trees, and postwar-era infrastructure.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-1940s canal-side infrastructure, with concrete banks, utility poles, planted trees, and a dark truck near the waterway.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distant visitor or traveler viewpoint, recording the canal-side setting without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm canal water, concrete embankments, a small bridge or culvert, roadside trees, utility poles, a parked dark truck, and bright sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame borders that preserve the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a geographic establishing insert, quiet transition, canal cutaway, or memory beat within Egypt, travel, or postwar infrastructure sequences.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for canal-side roads and landscaping in Egypt, while broader military or political interpretation should be supported by outside research.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, location, and any vehicle or property identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 8mm Suez Canal footage, Egypt canal embankment home movie, vintage waterway trees, and postwar travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt views, then broader vintage waterway and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal home-movie frame showing calm water, a concrete bank, roadside trees, utility poles, and a dark truck beyond the canal edge. — Canal-side embankment with trees and a parked dark truck across the water.

1946 Suez Canal frame with a concrete embankment, still water, trees, utility poles, and small roadside structures in soft 8mm color. — Concrete canal bank and tree-lined roadside viewed across calm water.

1946 Suez Canal view showing a small bridge or culvert, concrete banks, a dark truck, trees, and utility poles along the roadside. — Small crossing and parked truck near the tree-lined canal bank.

1946 Suez Canal frame showing calm foreground water, a concrete embankment, roadside trees, utility poles, and sunlit vegetation. — Tree-lined canal edge and utility poles across the water.

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