Learning on ScreenThe Prime Minister on Suez
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- Series Name
- British Movietone News
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- Story No. within this Issue
- 6 / 6
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Eden’s Suez Speech. DESCRIPTION: Tuning in to London, radio networks throughout the world, relayed Sir Anthony Eden’s broadcast on Suez. SHOTLIST: Shot of the Houses of Parliament looking from the river (Houses of Parliament has scaffolding around it). CU Anthony Eden seated at desk. MCU television aerials. Shot of people watching TV taken from the back of the room looking towards the TV. Various MCUs of the people watching TV. Library shots of various boats moving along the canal. Slip pan - Various CUs of Colonel Nasser. Shots of ships along the Canal. Various shots of the oilfields. CU oil machinery. Shots of oil refineries. Various shots of British ships ‘British Guardsmen’, ‘British Admiral’, ‘British Pilot’, ‘British Virtue’ etc. Oil tanker (Esso) leaving refinery. Shell-BP oil tanker along road. BP tanker. Shell tanker leaving refinery. Various shots of smoking chimneys. Slip pan to family watching Eden on TV (Eden is seen on the TV). Slip pan to Nasser talking (silent). Nasser in crowds waving. Nasser talking. Nasser with Eden. Slip pan to Nasser talking (silent). Soldiers. Nasser talking. MCU TV aerials. Various shots of family watching TV. Nasser talking. Slip pan ship along the Canal. Lorries on way to Portsmouth harbour. Lorry being loaded onto the ship. Crowds waving. Ship out to sea. Ship along the Canal.
- Researcher Comments
- EDEN’S SPEECH - The Suez Canal is a name familiar to everyone. You or some members of your family perhaps, have served there or maybe one of you or more have helped to defend the Canal in one or other of the two great wars. For Britain, the Canal has always been the main artery to and from the Commonwealth, bringing us the supplies we and they need. For many other nations throughout the world, it has become the bearer of traffic in ever growing volumes. The world of commerce depends upon it. It is in fact the greatest international waterway in the world and what Colonel Nasser has just done is to seize it for his own end. Hitherto the Canal has been international. It is guaranteed by an international agreement signed by many countries in 1888. Through it travels today, about half the oil, without which the industry of this country, of Western Europe, of Scandinavia and of many other countries too couldn’t keep going. This is a matter of life and death to us all. A great part of our industry and that of other western lands too is today running on oil. Without it machinery and much of our transport would grind to a halt. For we have come to rely more and more upon it for power. Our industry and our export depend upon it. Here, therefore is something which concerns every home in this land and not in this land alone. Some people say Colonel Nasser’s promised not to interfere with shipping passing through the Canal. Why therefore don’t we trust him. Well the answer is simple, look at his record. Our quarrel is not with it, still less with the Arab world, it is with Colonel Nasser. When he gained power to Egypt we felt no hostility towards him, but instead of meeting us with friendship, Colonel Nasser conducted a vicious propaganda campaign against our country. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. My friends we do not seek a solution by force, but by the broadest possible international agreement, but this I must make plain, we cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed and we must make sure that the life of the great trading nations of the world cannot in the future be strangled at any moment by some interruption to the free passage of the canal.
- Keywords
- Politics and government
- Locations
- London; Egypt
- Card file number
- 67870A
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- David Lewis Jacobs
- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Camera
- Robert Turner
- Length of story (in feet)
- 345
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