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1951 - Oil Crisis in Iran & British Leaving

Reel Number: 220701-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1951

Country: Iran

Location: Abadan

TC Begins: 17:00:12

TC Ends: 17:09:25

Duration: 00:09:13

Oil Crisis in Iran - Riots Demonstrators on trucks w/ placards demonstrate in Abadan - Iranians take over the British Petroleum Company Offices - tearing down signs and raising Iranian flag. MUCs. Demonstrators jubilant. 17:00:37 Abadan Printing Works sign. Policeman looking inside, British Publisher barred from entering. 17:00:50 British cruiser, HMS Mauritius, anchored in port. 17:00:59 Interior & ext. refinery closed down, valves shut. 17:01:08 Airport: women & children evacuated by air. Stretcher carried up aircraft steps. 17:01:22 Speaker, crowd. Flag to harbor. Demonstrators on streets. GOOD CUs & MSs. 17:01:58 Airport. Women leaving, boarding aircraft w/ children, people waving them off. BOAC plane taxiing. Iranians or Indian (?) women & men boarding TWA plane. Stretcher loaded onto plane. 17:03:40 Newspaper: The Daily News, masthead marked out. Men in room going thru papers, one at typewriter - reporters? 17:04:13 Cruiser HMS Mauritius at anchor, leaving port; anchored. 17:04:41 Valves closed on oil pipelines. Refinery & British speaker, happy crowd applauding. 17:06:17 Dock, crowd w/ flag w/ Iran national emblem, on staff, CU. 17:06:49 Loading stretcher on plane. 17:06:54 Newspaper reporters in room reading, marking text. 17:07:24 British women onto plane, waving. 17:07:30 Closing valves at refinery; cruiser in harbor; demonstrators in street; valves; crowd applauding & other bits & pieces from above. Cold War; Petroleum; Imperialism; Colonialism; CIA;

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