UPITN – September 1973:

A Month in the Life of a Global News Agency

NATO Exercise Takes Place In Turkey

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How to cite this film

‘Turkey NATO Exercise’, [newsfilm, online], 27 Sep 1973. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/upitn/search/index.php/story/z015936 (Accessed 21 Feb 2026)

Technical Info

Format / Codec: Flash / VP6
Source Format / Codec: MOV
Video Bitrate: 800 kbps
Audio Bitrate: 128 kbps
Frame Size: 640 x 480
Pixels Cropped At Encoding: Top: 0, Bottom: 0, Left: 90, Right: 90
Reason For Crop: Removal of video noise
Other Edits: Video was trimmed of first 7 seconds to remove AP title card

Slug

Turkey NATO Exercise

Date

27 Sep 1973

Dateline

Turkey

Script

Nato exercise takes place in Turkey

Shotlist

1. officer on field phone in back of truck
2. helicopter flies past ships at sea
3. ls battleship at sae
4. landing craft along
5. landing craft on beach drop front and troops out onto beach
6. troops run along sand
7. helicopters overhead one carrying vehicle beneath
8. track laying vehicle up beach
9. commander on radio pull back ms armoured vehicle
10. lorry out of water and up beach
11. troops on patrol

Film status

Processing date

27 Sep 1973

Processing location

London

Original film

Colour Reversal

Original sound

Magnetic Sound On Film

Duration

00:01:08:10

Sources

AP Television

NoS ID

z015936

How to cite this record

'NATO Exercise Takes Place In Turkey', 27 Sep 1973. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/upitn/search/index.php/story/z015936 (Accessed 21 Feb 2026)