| BEIRUT HIJACK Shots in and around Beirut International Airport during hijack attempt. Kids in Beirut/Palestinian Poster | ||
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| Tape Master: | 9099 | |
| Catalog #: | 19326 | |
| Clip Number: | 19326-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 4542 I | |
| Timecode: | 01:11:01 - 01:15:30 | |
| Location: | Lebanon, Beirut | |
| Year Shot: | 1970 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | CULTURAL GROUPS: Arabs LOCATIONS/MIDDLE EAST: Lebanon, Beirut | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 521490 Scenes from working class residential neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon, 1970, with lots of people in the shots Stone or stucco buildings w/ narrow passageways in between. CU Old man wearing traditional kaffia & agal headdress. Boy goofing off putting bag on his head goat tied to door of house; group of kids in street, older girl holding baby; TV antenna on roof. Children picking up cement blocks from a stack. MLS boy sawing something up on roof, making some sort of repairs. GV looking over roofs of many small houses w/ tin roofs to front of more shacks in BG. MCUs little boy holding pigeon - -can't tell what he's doing to it though looks like he's strangling it but it still lives.... sister tries to grab it from him and smacks him in the head, he proudly holds the poor bird up by its wings. CU elderly men sit smoking. Woman carries big tray of bread on her head. More shots of kids, man taking nap. Shots of posters on wall - -such as "PALESTINE FATEH" w/ drawing of guy w/ palestinian scarf holding rifle. (Fatah, largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization.) 2 kids stand between houses. Low angle shot tower w/ speaker attached (probably this is at a mosque and speaker is to call Muslims to prayer). | |
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