Flashpoint

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1982

Date Released

29 May 1967

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Flashpoint. DESCRIPTION: The Red Berets leave for Aden - the United Nations leave the Gaza Strip - U Thant holds talks in Cairo with the Egyptian Government - Israeli forces make ready along their frontiers. This is phase one of what could well be the most serious Middle East confrontation since Suez. SHOTLIST: MS soldiers from 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment walk to plane. MCU ditto. MS kitbags loaded onto plane. CU kitbag. CU ditto. MS kitbags onto plane. CU kitbag. MS kitbag loaded. MLS soldiers onto plane. MS ditto. MS soldier up plane steps carrying a guitar. MLS soldiers boarding plane. CU soldier’s wife with small boy waving. MS sign Israel Police Frontier Control Post. LAS Israeli flag pan to soldiers at control post. MS soldiers get into tank. MS Israeli tanks past. GV ditto. GV interior Israeli parliament building. LS ditto. GV pan ditto. MS U Thant off plane in Cairo. GV Cairo airport building. MS U Thant talking to UAR Official. CU ditto. CU soldiers prepare gun on gunboat. MS gun boat past. GV gunboats underway, wake behind gunboats. LS gunboats underway. GV ditto. MLS ditto.

Keywords

Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Weapons; Aviation; Military

Locations

England; Egypt; Israel; Gulf of Aqaba

Footage sources

France

Card file number

92390

Credits:

Camera: Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

153

Story extras:

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