The Suez Crisis

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1418
Date Released
6 Aug 1956
Date submitted
2 Aug 1956
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 8
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cabinet Suez Crisis. DESCRIPTION: A Treaty, guaranteed the Suez Canal, as an International waterway, for all time. Colonel Nasser repudiated this agreement. Mr Selwyn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary, held crisis talks with Monsieur Pineau, the French Foreign Minister, together with the United States Secretary of State, Mr Dulles, to discuss the grave situation. Twenty three nations will be invited to discuss the re-establishment of International security, on the Canal. In the event of failure, Great Britain is already preparing to counter Nasser’s threat, to hold the Canal by force. SHOTLIST: Various shots of the ships on the Canal. Slip pan to Selwyn Lloyd entering building. Monsieur Pineau alights from car and enters building. Various shots of newspaper headlines about Mr Dulles flying in. John Foster Dulles alights from plane and disembarks. MCU Mr Dulles talking to man. CU Mr Dulles. CU crowds. MCU ‘Downing Street’ sign. MCU No 10 Downing Street door. Various politicians entering No 10. CU newspaper headlines regarding ‘Call up’. Train entering station at Portsmouth with naval men looking out of the train window. Naval men walking along the platform with their kitbags. Shots of the naval men walking along. CU sign ' HM Dockyard’. Shot of boat. MLS of light fleet carrier Ocean. MCU nameplate. Shot of ‘Ocean’. MLS of the ‘Thesus’. MCU nameplate. LS of the Egyptian destroyer Al Uaher berthed between a British destroyer and a minesweeper. Slip pan to Egypt and to Nasser in moving car with crowds all around the car. Nasser waving. Crowds with banners. Nasser speaking to the crowd from a balcony (silent). Crowds. Nasser. Crowds.
Keywords
Politics and government
Locations
London; Egypt
Footage sources
Library
Card file number
67796
Credits:
Commentator
Geoffrey Sumner
Length of story (in feet)
164
Story extras:
Film clip

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'The Suez Crisis', British Movietone News Issue No. 1418, 6 Aug 1956. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/21095 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)