Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Shoreline with Pavilion and Trees at Suez Canal

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

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Shoreline with Pavilion and Trees at Suez Canal — 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 distant shoreline with a small building, likely a house or pavilion, nestled among trees along the water's edge. The scene is bathed in bright daylight under a clear blue sky, with calm blue water stretching across the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including soft focus, natural grain, and a slightly faded color palette typical of mid-century home movies. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of a peaceful moment by the canal, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124759954

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: Useful for 1940s Egypt or Suez Canal editorial work needing a quiet waterside establishing view from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century canal shoreline with low buildings, trees, open water, and no visible modern signage or vehicles.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot stillness, holding on the canal view rather than staging action or foreground subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, a distant low shoreline, a small pale building, tree cover, open sky, and dark frame edges from the film scan.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that preserve its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, geographic cutaway, or quiet transition within a 1940s travel or canal sequence.
Historical context: The view gives social context as a private travel record of the Suez Canal area, emphasizing landscape and shoreline rather than public activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright status and any property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1946 8mm Suez Canal view, Egypt home movie shoreline, vintage canal water cutaway, and 1940s travel footage Egypt.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Suez Canal or Egypt material from 1946, then broader 1940s waterside travel views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm view of the Suez Canal area with calm water, a low shoreline, trees, and a small building in bright daylight. — Distant shoreline and small building across calm canal water.

1946 Suez Canal home-movie frame showing blue water, a far tree line, and low shoreline buildings under a clear sky. — Water and far-bank buildings seen across the canal.

1946 8mm canal-side view in Egypt with a small shoreline building, trees, calm blue water, and a pale open sky. — Small shoreline building and trees beyond calm water.

Final 1946 Suez Canal frame with broad blue water, distant trees, low shoreline structures, and visible 8mm film borders. — Broad canal water with a distant tree-lined bank.

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