Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Ship Sailing Through Suez Canal with Distant Island

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

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Ship Sailing Through Suez Canal with Distant Island — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a ship sailing through the Suez Canal in Egypt. The footage shows a distant island or landmass on the horizon, viewed from a moving vessel. The deep blue ocean churns with moderate waves, creating white foam in the wake. The view is framed by the ship's window, with visible film grain, scratches, and a slightly faded color palette characteristic of mid-century amateur footage. This archival clip evokes a sense of travel and historical exploration.

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: 124760077

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 archival sequences needing shipboard travel views around the Suez Canal region, especially documentary inserts about sea passage, transit, or home-movie tourism.
Period detail: The color 8mm look, ship-window framing, and metadata-supported 1946 date place the clip in a mid-1940s amateur travel-film context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera watches the sea from a moving vessel rather than staging action, preserving a passenger-level view of wake, horizon, and distant land.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue water, white wake foam, a distant landmass, horizon line, ship-window edges, dark frame dividers, and film scratches.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, slight fading, vertical scratches, soft focus, and handheld shipboard instability that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel insert, maritime transition, route-establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat between broader Suez Canal material.
Historical context: The clip visually documents shipboard movement through open water in the Suez Canal area, with emphasis on sea surface and passenger viewpoint rather than canal infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status, source permissions, and any vessel or location claims should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1946 8mm Suez Canal ship footage, vintage home movie ocean wake, passenger vessel sea view, or 1940s maritime travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt travel clips, then broader shipboard ocean and maritime transit footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Suez Canal area home-movie frame showing a distant landmass beyond dark blue water, framed by ship-window edges. — A distant island or landmass appears on the horizon beyond the sea.

Shipboard 8mm view in the Suez Canal area with white wake foam, blue water, and the side of the vessel at frame right. — Foaming wake rolls beside the moving ship under a level horizon.

1946 shipboard travel frame showing open water, wake foam, horizon, and a narrow strip of vessel along the right edge. — The camera looks down the side of the vessel toward churning water.

Home-movie frame from the 1946 Suez Canal area showing rolling blue water and white wake foam from a moving ship. — Waves and wake foam spread across the sea as the vessel moves forward.

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