Essex - Bomb Banners March Again

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1697A

Date Released

14 Dec 1961

Date submitted

11 Dec 1961

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Story No. within this Issue

1 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bomb Banners March Again. DESCRIPTION: In spite of a security raid on the London Headquarters of the Committee of One Hundred, their plans were carried through. The organisers’ chief aim was said to be the so called invasion of the United States Air Force Base at Wethersfield. Obviously, therefore, the necessary measures had to be taken at the base to keep demonstrators out, and well over eight hundred arrests were made. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV street. MCU sign. CU paper (Committee of 100). MS picture of policeman, door opens to people. CU plan. MS woman. MS another. MS fence of wire. MS soldier behind fence. MS two soldiers. MS same. GV pan - base. GV planes. GV plane. GV soldiers with dogs. CU sign. MS dog. Marchers with police (6 shots). CU sign Keep Out. GV marchers sit down. Marchers sitting down (3 shots). GV helicopter. Marchers fighting with police (6 shots).

Keywords

Aviation; Demonstrations; Crime; Military; Nuclear energy

Locations

Wethersfield

Card file number

83572

Credits:

Camera: Ken Taylor
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Mark McDonald

Length of story (in feet)

167

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