Suez Canal Egypt-1946: Ship Sailing Through Ocean Waves and Sunset

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

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Ship Sailing Through Ocean Waves and Sunset — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a ship's journey through the Suez Canal in Egypt. The footage shows turbulent blue ocean waves churning behind the vessel, viewed from a window with visible frame edges. Later scenes transition to a serene sunset, with the sun dipping below the horizon, silhouetting the ship's masts and rigging against a soft pink and purple sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, scratches, and color fading, evoking a nostalgic, historic travel memory.

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: 124760082

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 travel or maritime documentary edits needing shipboard views of sea passage, wake, rigging, and sunset atmosphere near the Suez Canal context.
Period detail: The ship rigging, porthole-like framing, and 8mm color home-movie texture support a mid-1940s passenger or vessel-travel impression, though no landmark is visible.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a traveler-shot perspective from aboard ship, lingering on the wake and then turning toward the sunset through masts and lines.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue ocean wake, horizon line, ship window or rail edges, sunset sky, low sun, mast shapes, rigging lines, and dark frame borders.
Film character: The clip shows dense 8mm grain, soft focus, gate edges, scratches, muted color, and slight exposure shifts that give the short sequence physical archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a maritime cutaway, journey insert, passage transition, or quiet memory beat between travel, migration, or canal-route sequences.
Historical context: The frames document a shipboard viewpoint in the 1940s travel record, emphasizing sea movement and sunset rather than identifiable port infrastructure.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any vessel or route identification should still be checked separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1946 8mm shipboard footage, Suez Canal travel home movie, ocean wake from ship, vintage maritime sunset, and 1940s sea journey.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 Suez Canal or Egypt travel material, then broader shipboard, ocean crossing, and sunset travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 shipboard 8mm view near the Suez Canal context, showing foamy blue wake trailing across the sea under a pale horizon. — Foamy ocean wake trails behind the vessel, framed by dark ship or film edges.

Shipboard 8mm frame of turbulent blue water and white wake, with a vertical vessel or window edge visible at the right. — The ship's wake churns across dark blue water beside a vertical onboard edge.

1946 shipboard sunset view near the Suez Canal context, with the sun low on the horizon behind silhouetted mast and rigging lines. — A low sunset is seen through dark masts and rigging over the sea horizon.

Shipboard 8mm sunset frame with pale pink sky, distant horizon, silhouetted rigging, and dark vertical vessel structures. — Rigging and ship structures silhouette against a soft sunset over open water.

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