Ulster on the Brink

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2066A
Date Released
9 Jan 1969
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Disaster Weekend
  2. 2Cup - Third Round
  3. 3Ulster on the Brink

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 3
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Ulster on the Brink. DESCRIPTION: They march through Maghera and Dungiven - for more than seventy miles from Belfast to Londonderry, suffering stones and petrol bombs as well as blisters. The Civil Rights Demonstration - and the opposition it aroused from militant Protestants - has brought Ulster to the edge of a major national crisis. More than a hundred and sixty were injured during four days of violence, a revival of bitter, blood-thirsty animosity between Protestants and Catholics that threatens to destroy years of patient work to unite them. SHOTLIST: TS outskirts of Belfast. 6 shots members of Civil Rights marching from Belfast to Londonderry. MLS shop in Roman Catholic quarter of Londonderry. MS two men walk past shop. LAS sign Francis Street pan down to youths on corner. MS water pump in street. MCU ditto. 3 shots R Catholic dwellings. MS children playing in alley. GV pan RC dwellings. 2 shots RC church. GV Londonderry. MS slogan on wall No Surrender Paisley, pan to painting of William of Orange. MS painting on house wall. MS painting of William landing in Ireland on house wall. LAS sign Guildhall Street. MLS group outside Guildhall. MCU Civil Rights squatters inside Guildhall. MS pan policeman guarding Guildhall at night for Reverend Ian Paisley’s meeting. MS Major Bunting’s car arrives. MS Paisley enters Guildhall. LAS sign Guildhall Street pan to Civil Rights demonstrators outside Guildhall. MCU policeman arrests demonstrators. 2 shots Major Bunting’s car burning. MS pan water cannon arrives. MS car burning. MS demonstrators. 3 shots Bunting’s car burning. MS demonstrators. MS pan water cannon past. 2 shots marchers nearing Londonderry. 2 shots police in van. MS sign Londonderry. TS Londonderry Bridge. TS ditto. MS pan police car past. MS pan ambulance past. 4 shots marchers. HAS police with marchers. HAS spectators. HAS pan marchers. GV marchers congregate in Guildhall Square. HAS spectators applaud. GV marchers in square. 2 shots students address crowd. GV crowd. MS spectators applaud. CU rosette We Demand Civil Rights. GV crowd around archway leading to Protestant quarters. 2 shots steward trying to keep demonstrators away. MS demonstrators. MLS police. 2 shots ditto. MS crowd around archway. 3 shots police holding protestant crowd back. MS pan water cannon past. 2 shots men treated for cuts. 2 shots girl carried off. MS pan down square during afternoon after crowd had dispersed. GV ditto.
Keywords
Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Health and medicine; Shops and shopping; Social conditions; Fires; Demonstrations; Riots; Crime; Military
Locations
Belfast; Londonderry; Northern Ireland; Maghera; Dungiven
Card file number
94305
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
402
Story extras:
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