Suez Flare-Up

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2000A

Date Released

5 Oct 1967

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Boy Wonder
2. 2What’s Afoot
3. 3Suez Flare-Up
4. 4Stag Party
5. 5Two Wheel Record
6. 6Horse of the Year

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Suez Flare-Up. DESCRIPTION: The recent artillery duels along the Suez Canal prompt a mass civilian evacuation. SHOTLIST: (Key scene for GR). GV Suez Canal. GV ditto. LAS United Nations Headquarters in Israel. MCU UN car with bullet holes in windows. MS ruined house. LAS ditto. MCU priest. LAS ruined house. MS child walking through wreckage. MCU mortar bomb on ground. MS child. BS man looking at Egyptian side of Canal through binoculars. LAS pan down ruined Egyptian house. MCU unexploded bomb shell in hole in wall. MS inside hospital ward. MS hospital beds. MS nurse helps patient to sit up. MCU heavily bandaged patient in bed. Heavily bandaged woman and child. MCU woman and child in bed.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Health and medicine; Weapons; Displaced persons; War damage; Evacuees

Locations

Egypt; Cairo; Israel; Kantara

Footage sources

France

Card file number

92849

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

80

Story extras:

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