The Congo Tragedy
Series
- Series Name
- Federal Spotlight
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 3
- Summary
- BFI synopsis: Scenes of security measures on the border, food parcels, the Red Cross depot at Ndola, the Dag Hammarskjoeld air crash and his commemoration service.
- Keywords
- Commemorations; Health and medicine; Food and cooking; Foreign aid; Accidents and disasters; Religion and belief
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases Used for synopsis
British Film Institute Sources
- Credits:
-
- Camera
- A. Learmont
- Camera
- C. Page
- Production Co.
- Central African Film Unit
- Camera
- Henry Berriff
- Camera
- John Roulet
- Camera
- N. Grantham
- Camera
- T. Elderfield
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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How to cite this record
'The Congo Tragedy', Federal Spotlight Issue No. 138, 1961. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/351663 (Accessed 28 May 2025)