Vyshinsky Protests at Yugoslavia Election

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1064A

Date Released

24 Oct 1949

Date submitted

24 Oct 1949

Stories in this Issue:

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Vyshinsky Protests at Yugoslavia Election. DESCRIPTION: At Flushing, New York, the United Nations voted for Yugoslavia to be a non-permanent member of the Security Council. Naturally, Yugoslavia’s success enraged Mr Vyshinsky, the Soviet Foreign Minister, who started a tirade, which not even the President of the Assembly could stop. SHOTLIST: KS. Exterior of UN Building. Interior GV delegates. Members voting for & against the election of Yugoslavia, placing votes in box. Vyshinsky raises & president allows him to address meeting. Vyshinsky addresses meeting in Russian, protesting against the election of Yugoslavia, president tries to intervene but Vyshinsky ignores him. After he has finished speaking president announces that what he has just said, was against the rules of UNO & should be treated as such or words to that effect.

Keywords

Politics and government

Locations

New York; Flushing

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

52692

Credits:

Commentator: Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

153

Story extras:

Film clip

Movietone IconMovietone

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name: AP Archive
Email: info@aparchive.com
Web: http://www.movietone.com
Phone: +44 (0)20 7482 7482
Series held: View all series held by AP Archive

Record Stats

This record has been viewed 81 times.