Suez Canal Egypt-1946: A Drive Through Town

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A Drive Through Town — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a drive through a quiet town near the Suez Canal in Egypt. The footage shows a dusty, sun-drenched street lined with simple two-story buildings, utility poles, and scattered trees. People walk along the road and gather near vehicles, including a horse-drawn cart and early automobiles, offering a glimpse of daily life in mid-century Egypt. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic frame edges of an old home movie, evoking a sense of historical authenticity and nostalgia.

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: 124760050

Rights & Clearance

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: Useful for 1940s documentary sequences needing real 8mm street-view material from a town near the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Period detail: The scene shows flat-roofed two-story buildings, utility poles, sparse traffic, a cart or wagon, and pedestrians that fit a mid-1940s town setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot drive-through perspective, recording ordinary street movement rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dusty road, pale two-story buildings, pedestrians, utility poles, trees, early vehicles, and a cart or wagon.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible frame edges, light grain, faded color, and slight handheld or vehicle motion.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, travel transition, street-life cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century Egypt.
Historical context: The frames offer visual context for everyday movement along a quiet street near the Suez Canal, without identifying a specific landmark or event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be relevant; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 Egypt 8mm street footage, Suez Canal town home movie, mid-century road scene, and vintage drive-through town footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt footage, then with other mid-century street and travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm view near the Suez Canal showing a quiet street with buildings, utility poles, trees, pedestrians, and distant vehicles. — A quiet town street with pedestrians and vehicles seen from a moving home-movie camera.

1946 Egypt street view near the Suez Canal with a pale building, roadside trees, utility poles, pedestrians, and early vehicles. — Pedestrians and vehicles appear along a sunlit street near a pale two-story building.

1946 8mm frame from near the Suez Canal showing a pale building, roadside blocks, utility poles, pedestrians, and a broad dusty road. — The moving camera passes a pale building and stacked roadside blocks on a quiet street.

1946 Egypt home-movie frame near the Suez Canal with a pale building, roadside blocks, utility poles, pedestrians, trees, and vehicles. — A town street recedes past buildings, poles, pedestrians, and roadside materials.

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