The Suez Crisis

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1418

Date Released

6 Aug 1956

Date submitted

2 Aug 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Suez Crisis
2. 2The Dockers Out Voted
3. 3Graduation Gambols
4. 4A Stranger in the House
5. 5Bucharest Floods
6. 6Burma Earthquake
7. 7Jersey Carnival
8. 8Just Jousting

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cabinet Suez Crisis. DESCRIPTION: A Treaty, guaranteed the Suez Canal, as an International waterway, for all time. Colonel Nasser repudiated this agreement. Mr Selwyn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary, held crisis talks with Monsieur Pineau, the French Foreign Minister, together with the United States Secretary of State, Mr Dulles, to discuss the grave situation. Twenty three nations will be invited to discuss the re-establishment of International security, on the Canal. In the event of failure, Great Britain is already preparing to counter Nasser’s threat, to hold the Canal by force. SHOTLIST: Various shots of the ships on the Canal. Slip pan to Selwyn Lloyd entering building. Monsieur Pineau alights from car and enters building. Various shots of newspaper headlines about Mr Dulles flying in. John Foster Dulles alights from plane and disembarks. MCU Mr Dulles talking to man. CU Mr Dulles. CU crowds. MCU ‘Downing Street’ sign. MCU No 10 Downing Street door. Various politicians entering No 10. CU newspaper headlines regarding ‘Call up’. Train entering station at Portsmouth with naval men looking out of the train window. Naval men walking along the platform with their kitbags. Shots of the naval men walking along. CU sign ' HM Dockyard’. Shot of boat. MLS of light fleet carrier Ocean. MCU nameplate. Shot of ‘Ocean’. MLS of the ‘Thesus’. MCU nameplate. LS of the Egyptian destroyer Al Uaher berthed between a British destroyer and a minesweeper. Slip pan to Egypt and to Nasser in moving car with crowds all around the car. Nasser waving. Crowds with banners. Nasser speaking to the crowd from a balcony (silent). Crowds. Nasser. Crowds.

Keywords

Politics and government

Locations

London; Egypt

Footage sources

Library

Card file number

67796

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

164

Story extras:

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