Katanga Clash

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1729
Date Released
23 Jul 1962
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Flying Buccaneers
  2. 2Katanga Clash
  3. 3New South Wales - Flood Havoc
  4. 4Hop on a Hoverbus
  5. 5The Queen’s Gallery (In Colour)

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Katanga Clash. DESCRIPTION: The uneasy situation in the Congo still smoulders on, and there are occasional flare-ups, like this one at a United Nations roadblock outside Elisabethville. Some 10,000 African women besieged Indian troops manning the post, in a demonstration organised by the Association of Katanganese Women, said to be fanatically pro-Tshombe. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV crowds in street. (2 shots) women shouting at soldiers. (2 shots) crowd. MS women fighting with soldiers. MCU guards. Women shouting with soldiers. Women shouting and fighting with soldiers.
Keywords
Women; Demonstrations
Locations
Congo; Elisabethville
Card file number
84774
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
86
Story extras:
Film clip

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