Katanga - Conflict and Confusion

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1753

Date Released

7 Jan 1963

Date Other

Jan 1963

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Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Katanga - Conflict and Confusion. DESCRIPTION: Our pictures show Ethiopian Troops of the UN Forces consolidating their positions in Elisabethville, capital of the would-be break-away state. Details of the fighting are far from clear, but the UN Forces, commanded by the Indian General Prem Chano, have met little serious resistance. One serious casualty has been this Union Miniere Hospital, hit by mortar fire. At the Border mining town of Kipushi, hundreds of refugees have tried to flee across into Northern Rhodesia. UN Forces have now taken Tshombe’s temporary headquarters town Jadotville. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MLS tank - pan to tank. MS soldiers on tank, armed troops on hillside (6 shots). GV Union Miniere Hospital. CU broken windows at same. Hospital beds ransacked (2 shots). Dead patients lying on floor (3 shots). MS ambulance is stopped and checked for arms. MS inside ambulance, troops (2 shots). GV pan - mining town of Kipushi. MS women through streets. CU sign post Border. People with luggage (5 shots). Armed troops past camera (2 shots), pan up to wrecked bridge. MS same. GV troops in open country, troops across field (4 shots), troops open fire (3 shots), soldier fires machine gun (3 shots). MS troops across field.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Death; Colonialism; Military

Locations

Congo; Katanga

Footage sources

United Press International [UPI]

Card file number

85761

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

212

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