The Eyes That Accuse

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2077

Date Released

24 Mar 1969

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Eyes That Accuse. DESCRIPTION: On the eve of Mr Wilson’s proposed peace mission to Nigeria, we fly to the neighbouring Republic of Gabon where a French hospital is trying to save the lives of a pitiful handful of refugee children from Biafra. In vivid contrast to the pictures that follow, the starving victims of Biafra are a terrible comment on our inability to solve the problems of our own planet - while spending millions on the exploration of space. Nevertheless, the Apollo programme has been a triumph ... SHOTLIST: MS two undernourished Biafran children. CU Biafran child. MCU child crawling. 2 air to ground shots refugee hospital. 5 shots MS children carried from plane. MCU three children. MS medical officer places baby into cot. CU baby. MS hospital ward. MS doctor and nurse tending child. MS nurse tending child. MLS hospital compound. MCU pan child with doll. MCU children eating. CU ditto. MS children washing. CU & MCU ditto. CU child drinking from feeding bottle.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Health and medicine; Children; Aviation; Displaced persons; War and conflict; Accidents and disasters

Locations

Gabon

Footage sources

France

Card file number

94561

Credits:

Commentator: John Braban

Length of story (in feet)

182

Story extras:

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