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1956 - Suez Crisis: British Troops Patrolling, Col Knightley Arrival, UN VIPs, & Troops Leaving (?)

Reel Number: 221742-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1956

Country: Egypt,England,United Kingdom

Location: Middle East,Suez

TC Begins: 19:00:00

TC Ends: 19:10:14

Duration: 00:10:14

1956 - Suez Crisis: British Troops Patrolling, Col Knightley Arrival, UN VIPs, & Troops Leaving (?) Troops marching past on dock area; up street of city. Troops patrolling & Arab men in suits walking past buildings w/ Arabic signs. MCU soldiers. 19:00:43 Two merchant marines (?) in white shirts & short pants along sidewalk, pose. CU sign: Woolworths, rounded corner of two story building w/ Woolworth signs, soldier past. Soldier knocking on boarded up door. Sandbags piled on street corner; kids in street playing. Soldiers w/ light helmets patrolling in street. One carrying bottle of wine. 19:01:40 Car a intersection, pan to soldiers on corner. Young Arabs talking w/ soldier. Shots of various nationalities of military. Trucks up street w/ H on back. Young sailors talk w/ native. CU. 19:02:57 Slate. High angle of crates w/ soldiers on overlook near beach, tilt up to harbor. 19:03:17 Soldiers holding sign of unit. 19:03:24 Soldiers on street corner w/ United Nations armbands. Two stand in front of unit sign. MCU British soldier smoking, others behind. Royal ?? unit name on shoulder. High angle, many troops filling deck of ferry; view from ship moving towards troopship, SS DILWARA, w/ sailors at rail waving. View of soldiers on ferry approaching dock. 19:04:32 View up to soldiers on railing, soldiers w/ bags & rifles up gangway on side of ship, boarding. MS soldiers in ferry looking up; MCU passing camera w/ duffel bags. MCU of soldiers waving, smiling. 19:05:26 British officers on airfield, two C47 planes in background taxiing, British markings. Offices watch. 19:05:45 MS British officer, Colonel Charles Knightley of 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards & Commander in Chief of Operation Musketeer off plane, greeted. MCU; MCU of Hugh Charles Stockwell w/ tents & army vehicles in background / BG. 19:06:08 C47 (?) arriving; Knightley, Stockwell & others greeting military & civilian VIPs off United Nations C-47. British officers drive off in jeep; others in enclosed car & walking off field. UN enclosed jeep station wagon w/ men leaves past jeep w/ UN flag flying. 19:08:11 Slate. British soldiers throwing duffel bags (?) from army truck into landing craft. Soldiers in berets posing; loading medical crates into barge from sidewalk. Troops prepare to march off. 19:09:12 Tank down street towards moving camera. Soldiers w/ duffles onto ferry; LS, MSs Military Occupation; Middle East; Suez Canal Dispute; Cold War;

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