Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Sparse Landscape with Mosque and Oil Infrastructure

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

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Sparse Landscape with Mosque and Oil Infrastructure — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a view from a moving vehicle across a sparse, arid landscape near the Suez Canal in Egypt. The frame shows a dusty, open plain under a clear blue sky, with scattered low buildings, utility poles, and a distant mosque with minarets. A dark cylindrical tank and a small oil derrick are visible in the foreground, suggesting early oil infrastructure. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight motion blur, and a nostalgic, documentary-style quality, offering a rare glimpse of mid-20th century Egyptian countryside.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124760044

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-region productions needing a brief rural roadside landscape cutaway from home-movie footage.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-20th-century utility poles, low buildings, arid open ground, and a distant mosque-like structure, consistent with the supplied 1946 Egypt metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The view appears filmed from a moving vehicle, giving an unstaged traveler perspective across sparse countryside rather than a composed scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open sandy ground, clear blue sky, utility poles, low distant buildings, a mosque-like structure with minarets, trees, a dark cylindrical tank, and a small derrick-like structure.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight motion blur, exposure variation, and frame-edge darkness that preserve its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel transition, regional cutaway, or quiet memory beat between Suez Canal-area scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for a sparsely built arid area near the Suez Canal in the 1940s without proving a specific settlement, facility, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and property considerations should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 8mm Egypt countryside, Suez Canal home movie landscape, arid roadside view, mosque in distance, and vintage Middle East travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt material, then broader 1940s arid landscape and roadside infrastructure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal-area home-movie frame showing sandy open ground, utility poles, distant buildings, trees, and a dark cylindrical tank. — Open arid roadside view with poles, distant buildings, trees, and a dark tank in front.

1946 Egypt roadside view near the Suez Canal with pale arid ground, utility poles, distant structures, trees, and a foreground tank. — Sparse countryside view with distant buildings and a dark foreground tank under clear sky.

1946 Suez Canal-area frame with open sandy terrain, utility poles, low buildings, a mosque-like structure, trees, and a dark tank. — Distant settlement structures and poles seen across open sandy ground from a moving viewpoint.

1946 Egypt home-movie frame showing sparse land near the Suez Canal with trees, poles, distant buildings, and a small derrick-like form. — Sparse roadside landscape with trees, poles, distant structures, and a small derrick-like object.

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