Suez Canal Egypt-1946: View Of A Minaret And Building From A Moving Vehicle

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

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View Of A Minaret And Building From A Moving Vehicle — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a view from a moving vehicle along the Suez Canal in Egypt. The camera pans across a light-colored building with a prominent minaret, framed by a large tree on the right. The footage shows slight motion blur and film grain, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The scene evokes a sense of travel and historical observation, with the structure standing against a pale sky.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124760060

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip.

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 travel, Suez Canal route, and documentary inserts needing a brief moving-vehicle view of roadside architecture with a minaret.
Period detail: The light-toned building, minaret form, open roadway edge, and sparse surrounding structures may show mid-1940s canal-side urban or village architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot observation from a moving vehicle, recording a fleeting roadside landmark rather than a staged view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale building, a tall minaret, arched openings, a large roadside tree, pale sky, low walls, and passing foreground blur.
Film character: The 8mm footage carries soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure fluctuation, gate edges, and motion blur from handheld filming in transit.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, route transition, travel insert, or visual memory beat within Egypt or Suez Canal sequence material.
Historical context: The view offers modest architectural and travel context from the Suez Canal area without identifying the exact building or making claims about its function.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are visible or indicated, but building identification, location precision, copyright, and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s Egypt 8mm travel footage, Suez Canal roadside minaret, moving vehicle home movie, and canal-area architecture cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt travel footage, then broader 1940s road and architecture views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal area home-movie frame showing a light-colored building with a minaret, seen from a moving vehicle beside a large tree. — A pale roadside building with a prominent minaret appears beyond a large tree.

A 1946 Egypt travel frame shows the minaret and upper facade of a pale building, with a large tree and soft motion blur from the vehicle. — The minaret and facade remain centered as the vehicle passes the structure.

The moving-vehicle view shifts lower, showing more of the roadside wall beneath the minaret-topped building in the Suez Canal area. — A low wall and roadside foreground pass beneath the minaret-topped building.

Final frame from the 1946 Suez Canal area clip shows the minaret still visible as roadside buildings and a large tree slide through the view. — The vehicle moves past the building, leaving the minaret and tree at the edge of the frame.

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