News Round Up: Japanese Protest

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1380

Date Released

14 Nov 1955

Date submitted

9 Nov 1955

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Wolves Beat Dynamo
2. 2Lord Mayor of London
3. 3Desert Pilgrimage
4. 4News Round Up: Japanese Protest
5. 5News Round Up: Ethiopian Trade Fair
6. 6News Round Up: New Atomic Plant
7. 7News Round Up: Barbara Hutton Weds Again
8. 8Homage to a Sultan
9. *Scotland V Wales

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 8

Section Title

News Round Up

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Jap Riots in Tokyo. DESCRIPTION: An important American Air Base near Tokyo is being expanded and local inhabitants started fires in protest. They objected to their farmland being used in this way. SHOTLIST: CU surveyors at work. CU rioters pushing at them and their equipment. CU smoke fires being started. CU Japanese police advancing on rioters and attempting to put the fires out. CU fights and scuffles between rioters and police. LS USAF plane coming in to land on the airstrip.

Keywords

Aviation; Demonstrations; Riots; Military

Locations

Tokyo; Japan

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

65138

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

45

Story extras:

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