Aid for Pakistan

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2164A

Date Released

26 Nov 1970

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Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Aid for Pakistan. DESCRIPTION: At last, relief supplies are reaching the victims of the East Pakistan flood disaster. Britain’s mounted the biggest disaster aid programme in recent times and has already contributed nearly a million pounds for relief. Perhaps the biggest tragedy is the time it’s taken for the supplies to get there, when with a little more international co-operation thousands could have been saved. SHOTLIST: GV supply plane of the RAF taxiing. GV supplies being unloaded at Pakistani airfield. SV, GB LV ditto. GV interior aircraft ready for supply drop. SV man stocking blankets. CU man SV pile of blankets dropped out of plane. SCU man with head phones. CU blankets being piled up. SV blankets thrown out of plane. A to G blankets fall through sky. BV thrown out A to G blankets fall through sky.

Keywords

Aviation; Foreign aid; Displaced persons; Accidents and disasters; Military

Locations

East Pakistan

Footage sources

Pakistan

Card file number

96566

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

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