Hippie Housing

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2137A
Date Released
21 May 1970
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Election Time
  2. 2Berlin Demonstrations
  3. 3Hippie Housing
  4. 4International Reservations
  5. 5Windsor Horse
  6. 6Chinese Martial Arts

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hippie Housing. DESCRIPTION: Hippies occupy a house in the Dutch capital to protest about the lack of housing for young couples. Police are bombed with sulphur powder as they arrive to evict the squatters, several of whom are arrested. SHOTLIST: GV hippies in street. Angle shot hippies looking out of window of house. SV pan hippies on roof of house. CU ditto. Angle shot pan down from hippies on roof to street. SV interior hippies in room looking out of window. CU pan ditto. Angle shot hippies looking down from house to street. LV motor cycle police closing in on house. SV police clearing people away from street. CU police with batons & shields. SV policeman with dog. LV ditto. SV pan police ready to charge. Pan mounted police. LV pan police charging down road. GV ditto. CU pan police entering house. LV police car driving through sulphur smoke & explosion. Angle shot youth throwing sulphur bomb out of window. CU pan bus drives through smoke. 2 SVs smoke filled street, police breaking down barrier of house. 2 CUs pan leading hippies out of house, pan police leading girl away. 2 SVs police pushing hippies into car, hippies loaded into car. CU pan ditto.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Weapons; Social conditions; Demonstrations; Riots; Crime; Youth
Locations
Amsterdam; Netherlands
Footage sources
France
Card file number
95940
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
147
Story extras:
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