Support for Czechs

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2069A
Date Released
30 Jan 1969
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Support for Czechs. DESCRIPTION: Students in Rome demonstrate outside the Soviet Embassy and Tourists Offices in support of Czechoslovakia’s fight for freedom, symbolised by the martyrdom of Jan Palach. SHOTLIST: MS Rome students outside Russian Embassy in Rome, demonstrating against Prague Suicide. MCU ditto. MS ditto. MS student holding placard. LAS sign in Italian, Russian Embassy. LAS Russian Embassy. MS crowd. MS crowd running. MS police holding crowd back. MS crowd fighting with police. MCU pan injured man carried off by demonstrators. MS police striking demonstrators with batons.
Keywords
Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Health and medicine; Demonstrations; Riots; Crime
Locations
Italy; Rome
Footage sources
France
Card file number
94379
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
81
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Support for Czechs', British Movietone News Issue No. 2069A, 30 Jan 1969. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/27726 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)