Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Moving View Of A Tall Mosque Minaret Near Other Buildings In A

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Moving View Of A Tall Mosque Minaret Near Other... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a moving view of a mosque with a prominent minaret in Suez Canal, Egypt. The footage shows a low-angle perspective through a window frame, with the minaret rising above surrounding buildings under a hazy sky. The scene transitions to a distant view of a landmass across the water, likely the Sinai Peninsula, with deep blue sea in the foreground. The film exhibits natural grain, slight blurriness, and authentic 1940s color saturation, offering a rare glimpse of mid-century Egyptian urban and coastal life.

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: 124760065

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary or education requests needing brief Suez Canal, Egypt home-movie views of waterside architecture and a coastal horizon.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, window-framed viewpoint, and low-rise buildings may show mid-1940s travel filming around the Suez Canal area.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, looking past a window or railing toward a minaret and then across open water without staging or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall minaret, pale low buildings, window-frame borders, hazy sky, blue water, and a distant landmass on the horizon.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture with visible grain, slight blur, gate framing, exposure variation, and saturated blue water typical of small-gauge color home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, travel transition, coastal cutaway, or memory beat between Suez Canal-area scenes.
Historical context: The frames provide visual context for waterside travel in Egypt, showing built shoreline views and a distant coast without identifiable people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but location and building identification should be independently checked for copyright, property, and contextual use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 8mm Suez Canal Egypt footage, mosque minaret home movie, vintage Egyptian waterfront, and distant Sinai coastal view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt material, then broader 1940s travel, waterfront, and North Africa footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal, Egypt home-movie view of a tall mosque minaret rising above low pale buildings through a dark window-like frame. — A tall minaret stands above low buildings, filmed through dark frame edges.

A moving 8mm view in the Suez Canal area shows a minaret above surrounding buildings, partially bordered by dark window framing. — The minaret remains centered above low buildings as the camera angle shifts.

1946 Suez Canal-area footage shifts to blue water in the foreground and a hazy distant landmass across the horizon. — Open water fills the foreground with a low, hazy landmass in the distance.

A soft 8mm view shows deep blue water and a distant coastal landmass, likely filmed from the Suez Canal area in 1946. — A distant coast or island sits beyond the dark blue water.

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