| Peace Fighters: UN Units Take Up Police Job In Suez | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1625 |
| Catalog #: | 354440 | |
| Clip Number: | 354440-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 029-095-02 | |
| Timecode: | 00:08:32 - 00:09:29 | |
| Location: | Egypt, Suez | |
| Year Shot: | 1956 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | LOCATIONS/AFRICA: Egypt, Suez Canal MILITARY: Multinational, United Nations (U.N.) WAR & CONFLICT: Arab-Israeli War 1956 WAR & CONFLICT: Refugees WAR & CONFLICT: Suez Crisis 1956-1957 | |
| Description: | United Nations Contingents take up the police job in the Suez Canal Zone, hampered in their duties pending withdrawal of British and French Forces. On the Israel front, Arab refugees by the thousands stream out of the Sinai Peninsula. Establishing shot - Aerial shot of the Suez Canal and some sunken ships, mine sweepers scour the entrance of the Suez Canal. MS - Tattle tale sign of a submarine underwater by the wake it is leaving behind. MS - A Swissair airliner sits on a tarmac as UN troops disembark, aka - UN peace keepers. MCUS - Arab refugees sitting in a back bed of a 1/2 ton truck. MCUS - An empty school or building gives temporary housing to Arab refuges, laundry is hanging on clothes lines that are strung up between the support beams. MUS - Mother and her children sitting on the street curb in Suez. CUS - Boat carrying more Arab refugees into Suez. CUS - Father sitting on the deck of the boat with his family. | |
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