Olympic Memorial
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
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- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Olympic Memorial. DESCRIPTION: For a time the Munich Games were suspended because of the brutal murder of eight Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists from the Black September organisation, who had demanded from the West German government the release of 200 Arab prisoners in Israel. The captive athletes and Arab captors were killed in a police ambush on their way to Munich’s airport. SHOTLIST: GV Olympic stadium, zoom in to Olympic flag at half mast. GV Olympic stadium. GV helicopter flies toward Israeli headquarters. CU ditto. GV ditto, zoom in to police on roof of building. MS police watching. CU ditto. LS police on roof. Zoom in to police in track suits. LS terrorist guerilla on balcony. Pan airport sign to guards. LS airport building. LS photographer. CU ditto. LS pan burnt out helicopter. LS flags at half mast. CU Israeli flag. MS Israeli competitors. GV interior stadium. LS crowd. GV interior stadium. MLS Avery Brundage making address. LS crowd. MLS Brundage making address. MS competitors. LS ditto. CU ditto (x3). GV zoom into flags at half mast.
- Keywords
- Sport; Terrorism
- Locations
- Germany; Munich
- Footage sources
- Germany
- Card file number
- 98425A
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 155
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