Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Beautiful Holiday Location For Couples Old Sequence

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Beautiful Holiday Location For Couples Old Sequence — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a serene holiday scene along the Suez Canal in Egypt. The footage shows a white building with a gabled roof, palm trees, and lush greenery under a bright sky. A water tower appears in later frames as the camera pans across the tranquil landscape. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight blurriness, and natural color fading, evoking a nostalgic mid-century travel memory. This archival clip offers authentic 1940s Egyptian scenery, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 124759945

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: Supports 1940s travel, Egypt, and Suez Canal archive requests needing brief scenic home-movie atmosphere for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-1940s canal-side buildings, palms, garden walls, and open landscaped grounds consistent with the supplied 1946 Egypt metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the location from a visitor's viewpoint, panning across buildings and greenery without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white villas or small buildings, gabled roofs, garden walls, palms, dense trees, pale sky, sandy ground, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, faded color, uneven exposure, gate edges, dust marks, and slight handheld instability that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short scenic insert, travel transition, location-establishing cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s Egypt sequence.
Historical context: The footage presents a landscaped waterside or canal-side holiday environment in Egypt, emphasizing leisure scenery rather than identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but visible buildings and grounds should still be reviewed for copyright, property, and contextual use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1946 Egypt home movie, Suez Canal holiday footage, 8mm palm trees and villas, and 1940s travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Egypt travel shots, then with other 1946 Suez Canal material, then with broader 1940s holiday landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal home-movie frame showing a white gabled building, palms, garden wall, and sunlit landscaping. — White building and palm-lined grounds beside a pale wall.

Soft 8mm view of a pale building, palms, shrubs, and a light garden wall in the Suez Canal area. — Pale building and tropical planting behind a garden wall.

1946 Egypt travel frame with palms, dense trees, pale ground, and soft faded color from an 8mm home movie. — Tree-lined grounds with palms and a sandy foreground.

Soft 8mm Suez Canal-area view of palms and dense greenery across an open pale foreground. — Palm and tree line across a bright open foreground.

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