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UN At Suez: Hammarskjold Flies To Head Peace Drive

UN At Suez: Hammarskjold Flies To Head Peace Drive
Clip: 354424_1_1
Year Shot: 1956 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1624
Original Film: 029-093-01
HD: N/A
Location: Egypt
Timecode: 00:42:23 - 00:43:28

U.N. Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold boards a plane for Cairo, where he will personally supervise operations of the International UN. Police force. In port said, the wreckage of war awaits him, in the wake of the Anglo-French amphibious assault. Still blocked by sunken ships in the key Suez Canal - waiting for uncertain peace. Establishing shot - Cameras follows UN Secretary Dag Hammarskjold boarding a plane for Cairo. MS - Port Said buildings are totally left in shambles. MS - Third story of an apartment house or home is burning. CUS - Man is pulling a 2-wheel cart with two covered bodies on it. ME - Dead man laying on the street in Said. Theirs another body laying on the sidewalk, the top portion of the body is partially covered by the trunk of a tree. CUS - I think this is the second body that I mentioned, the trunk of the tree does not cover the body but the body is propped up against the trunk. MS - Three goats, two of them is sniffing the dead body. MS - Troops walking down the street. CUS - Army tanks parked in a line on the street. CUS - People lining the streets as they watch an amour tank driving down the center of town. CUS - Canadian General, ALM Burns disembarking from a plane. CUS - Troops driving a jeep, their weapons, automatic rifles in plane sight. MS - A bombed military ship sunken in the Suez Canal. CUS - Sunken cargo ship. MS - Man walking with a mule pulling a cart.