Suez Crisis: British Troops, etc 221742-01 | Footage Farm
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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;