Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Mountainous Island from Moving Ship

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

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Mountainous Island from Moving Ship — Clip Details

SUEZ CANAL EGYPT-1946: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a distant mountainous island rising from the deep blue sea, viewed from a moving vessel. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows the textured surface of the water and the hazy silhouette of the landmass under a pale sky. Visible film grain, scratches, and slight camera shake add to the authentic, nostalgic feel of this historical maritime scene.

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: 124760070

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: 1940s maritime home-movie footage for productions needing a shipboard view of distant land near the Suez Canal region.
Period detail: The footage may show 1940s travel filming, with soft color, handheld framing, and no visible modern vessels, buildings, signage, or people in the sampled frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot shipboard perspective, holding on a hazy mountainous landmass across open water rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue sea, a pale sky, a distant mountainous island or coast, light haze, horizon line, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, blue color shift, gate edges, small scratches, and slight handheld movement as part of its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a maritime cutaway, travel insert, geographic transition, or quiet memory beat between shipboard scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests mid-century sea travel through or near the Suez Canal region, though the frames do not identify the landform or exact route.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the sampled frames, but users should review copyright status and any location identification needs separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1940s 8mm Suez Canal sea view, vintage shipboard island footage, distant mountain across water, and archival maritime travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt travel clips, then with broader vintage shipboard and ocean-crossing scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm Suez Canal region footage showing a hazy mountainous landform viewed from a vessel across deep blue water. — A distant mountain-like island or coast sits beyond the open sea.

The camera holds on the landform as the sea fills the foreground.

Vintage 8mm maritime frame from the 1946 Suez Canal metadata, showing a sloping distant landform across a textured sea. — A sloped island or coastal ridge appears through haze beyond choppy water.

1946 shipboard home-movie frame near the Suez Canal region, with blue sea leading to a hazy mountainous shoreline. — The final sampled frame shows the shoreline profile from across open water.

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