| Amsterdam Riots: Tear Gas Used To Quell Street Mobs | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1749 |
| Catalog #: | 426111 | |
| Clip Number: | 426111-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 039-049-02 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Holland, Amsterdam Riots | |
| Year Shot: | 1966 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ANIMALS/MAMMALS: Horses CROWDS: Demonstrators DEMONSTRATIONS: Protest DEMONSTRATIONS: Student LAW: Enforcement, Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Netherlands (Holland) | |
| Description: | One worker is dead and some 60 persons injured as street rioting sweeps through the Dutch capital city of Amsterdam. The riots continuing day and night, run for three days. Workers protest a pay reduction and are joined by hoodlums. For the first time in Holland, tear gas is used. Establishing shot - This is a High Angle Shot of a downtown Amsterdam street, a banner 'Holland Festival', crowds of people walking around. MS - Students running in all directions, a policeman on his horse chasing down some students, a motorcycle cop driving his bike with a side car. LS - A policeman catching a protestor and whacking him with his police-stick. MS - Police throw tear-gas into the streets to break up the sweeping hoodlum and student protestors. Night shots - The silhouettes of the protestors running and ducking arrest. High Angle Shot - Protestor throwing a rock or bottle at a police officer and then running off. High Angle Shots - Morning shots - Young protestors throwing rocks and bottles at the police officers and at the end of one street a mass of people gathering. MS - Protestors breaking up a burning car and then shoving pieces of it towards the police officers, burned out tires on a truck, and the truck is still driven, police officers mounted on their horses controlling the crowds | |
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