Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Beach Scenery From A Coastal Town And Surfing On The

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Beach Scenery From A Coastal Town And Surfing On The — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a dynamic first-person view from a surfboard cutting through foamy waves at a coastal town. The footage transitions to a sun-drenched view of a colonial-style building with a tiled roof and veranda, surrounded by lush green trees under a clear blue sky. The grainy texture and color palette of the Super 8 film evoke a strong sense of nostalgia and historical authenticity, offering authentic archival footage of mid-20th century leisure and architecture.

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: 124759966

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 home-movie footage for productions needing coastal leisure, surf-level water action, and colonial-era seaside architecture near the Suez Canal.
Period detail: The tiled veranda building, open seafront setting, and saturated 8mm color may show mid-1940s coastal-town architecture and leisure scenery.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, moving from an active board-level view in the surf to a steady look at a sunlit building beyond a wall.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include foamy surf around a board, blue sky, pale boundary wall, veranda building, tiled roof, trees, and a sandy or paved foreground.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief travel insert, coastal transition, architectural cutaway, or memory beat within a 1940s Egypt or seaside sequence.
Historical context: The images place recreation and built environment in the same short home-movie moment without identifying the building or making a specific landmark claim.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the visible exterior building and location identification should still be reviewed for property and copyright context.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1946 8mm Suez Canal coastal town, Egypt beach surf home movie, and 1940s seaside architecture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal material, then broader 1940s coastal leisure or travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm frame showing a first-person board-level view moving through foamy surf near the Suez Canal, Egypt. — A board or surf craft pushes through white water in a first-person coastal view.

1946 Suez Canal home-movie frame showing a sunlit coastal building behind a pale boundary wall and trees. — A low wall and trees partially obscure a sunlit building under a clear sky.

1946 Suez Canal frame of a veranda-style building with a tiled roof, seen from outside across a pale wall. — The camera frames a veranda-fronted building set back behind a wall and greenery.

1946 Suez Canal home-movie frame showing a two-story veranda building beside trees and open foreground ground. — A two-story building with a shaded veranda stands beside trees in bright sun.

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