Sultan Leaves Capital

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1374A

Date Released

6 Oct 1955

Date submitted

3 Oct 1955

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1England’s Soccer Win
2. 2Premier at Balmoral
3. 3Sultan Leaves Capital
4. 4Geoff Duke Beaten
5. 5Trawler Strike Over
6. 6The Importance of Glamour
7. 7Dower V Martin
8. 8Cyprus - Critical Days
9. *Rangers V Aberdeen

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Departure of Ben Afara. DESCRIPTION: The Sultan of Morocco left his Palace at Rabat to take up voluntary retirement at Tangier. The French Resident General was there to see him off. SHOTLIST: CU of Sultan Ben Moulay Arafa and party. GV of palace. CU of sheep grazing. CU of press men waiting and rushing. CU of guard gesticulating to pressman. SCU of Arafa and party including General Boyer de la Tour. GV of guard of honour. Party walks to plane. The Sultan being assisted into plane. Planes take off.

Keywords

Politics and government; Exile

Locations

Morocco; Rabat

Footage sources

France

Card file number

64730

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

65

Story extras:

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