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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221600-02
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1956
Country: Democratic Republic Of Congo
Location: Africa
TC Begins: 09:02:43
TC Ends: 09:05:25
Duration: 00:02:42
Congo, ca 1956 Modern school building w/ debris on ground; broken globe, windows; papers, supplies & teaching materials on ground. Man picking up things. Military officer & civilians out. 09:03:19 Sign on building: Pharmacie Cophaco. Tilt down burned out building, women & two children past. Other damaged buildings, burned out pickup truck; cars & people past. Smoking inside of wall & damaged equipment. Burned books. 09:03:50 Native woman w/ baby on back & large plastic pan on head walking over papers on ground. Tilt up to chalked grafitti. View along street, broken statue. Broken windows, eligious statue, broken chairs. 09:04:25 View up to three soldiers on water or ?? tower; troops on tank, jeep past; plane over. Soldiers searching cars, checking papers. Barbed wire across road, soldiers at checkpoint; people past. Anti-Kasa-Vubu aka Kasavubu - Kassavubu grafitti. 09:05:09 Cars thru checkpoint. Traffic. Troop carriers. 1956; Congo fighting aftermath;