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Algerian War (and background) – Footage Farm Masters – updated 8Apr 2011

 

 

221660   04:38:38 - 04:48:31            1937   Sil       B/W    [Moslem Convention; Algerian School Boys; Sheikh El Okbi Speaking & Arrested, ca Jul37]

Large hall of men raise hands in clenched fist Communist salute, listen, applaud.  Men standing talking.  Posters in French & Arabic re municipal elections.  Arab men lined up outside ?? Du Travail building.

04:40:37  Boys on ground in outdoor class reciting. 

04:40:55  Arab men sitting & standing on narrow street; two men talking to them.  Large group gather on hillside & man (Dr. Saadane ?) speaking to them, seen from behind speaker & from on top of hill towards speaker. 

04:42:42  Same man (Dr. Saadane ?) sitting talking to men in narrow street.

04:42:54  Large square w/ French police & Arabs outside Salon de l ??.  Men talking, milling about.  LS past police w/ fields & apartment buildings in background.

04:43:50  Int. of large warehouse (?) filled w/ seated Arabs applauding.  Men entering. CU Sheikh El Okbi speaking (MOS).

04:44:14  Init. office or hall w/ picture at front of Maurice Viollette (?).  Cleric Sheikh El Okbi sits behind table on podium.  Men in fez & turbans fill ornate hall.  Okbi reads from book, gestures speaking.  MCU; CU.  LS of men listening.  MCU listening.

04:46:55  Dark - not useable.

04:47:29  Street & men in European suits walk Sheikh El Okbi to police van & drive away led & followed by police in motorcycle & sidecar.  Algiers street scene & pedestrians.  Police outside station house.  Police van arriving.  Sheikh El Okbi taken from van along w/ another.

04:48:17  Ext. of prison. 

04:48:24  Building exterior w/ signs:  Cercle du progres; ?afhie A. Vollenweiger

 

 

221627   06:03:12 - 06:04:59            1950s Sil       B/W    [Unid. French Awards Ceremony w/ Camel Corps in North Africa, 1950s]

Camel corps reviewed by French, POV past; troops at attention; officers at attention under awning.  MCU of ?? (VIP).              Exchange of unit flag.  VIP gives medal to Arab tribesman, kisses.  French officer saluting, jeeps passing w/ VIPs.  Camel corpsmen.  Ribbons tied to pennants.  Officers saluting.  VIP pins medal on French officer, kisses. Tank Corps in distance. 

06:04:22  VIP present ribbon to civilian, assisted by French officer.

06:04:27  Camel corps riding past led by French officer.  VIP & others watching.  Riding away.  GOOD.

 

221627   06:08:25 - 06:10:42            1950s Sil       B/W[Algeria - French Army Searching Office & Streets, 1950s]

European man in suit standing; soldiers w/ tank in background on city street.  Small tanks or armored troop carriers moving thru Arab city; Mosque tower in background.

06:08:35  Police in entrance to Maison Des Syndicats (sign over entrance drive).  CU sign.

06:08:41  Women & children outside corner clothing store.

06:08:43  Tanks, jeep through city, past camera.  LS past North African (?) policeman to Army activity in city square.  Large building w/ sign:  Dar El Kitab.  Bicyclists & pedestrians past soldiers in vehicles.  MS soldiers.

06:09:12  2 men looking at books in ransacked office; one takes banner w/ Arabic out of cupboard.  Arm band or ?? CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail aka General Confederation of Labor)  CU  w/ Al-Istiqlal newspapers.

06:09:36  Picture on wall of Ahmed Ben Bella (?) w/ CU.

06:09:41  Policeman opens doors to garage w/ debris & CGT banners & newspapers.

06:09:55  Men in suits & coats w/ clubs walk up alley.

06:10:03  Soldiers w/ clubs & rifles up alley past Arabs.  MCU man w/ rifle.  Soldiers on corner of concrete brick building w/ Rue 47 sign.  Arab shacks, people up muddy dirt street, women carry water buckets on heads.

06:10:31  Man w/ rifle past burned out semi-truck.  Soldiers walk in background..

06:10:35  MCU European man w/ scarf talking w/ Arab.

06:10:38  Tanks past.

 

221681-03        20:13:15 - 20:16:01            1950S Sil       B/W

INCLUDING:

[Algeria, Djeurf Barracks (?) from air;]

Air to air of 2 French single-engine military planes over desert rocky mesa.  Rocky peak w/ lookout on top.

20:13:30  Large rocky mountain top w/ barracks or ??; steep sides.  Closer pass.  Djeurf on top of building; POV past rocky cliff alongside.

20:14:01  Gun on plane wing; view of firing.  POV past cliff.  Two planes, diving & firing rocket, explosion.  Past cliff top.  Various views from plane.    20:14:57

 

221418-14        11:12:24 - 11:13:19            195?   Sil       B/W    [North Africa:  French Troops Search Arabs & Village]

High angle across valley to town village on hillside, Mediterranean sea (?) beyond.  Soldiers down hillside, in orchard in valley, light plane overhead.   Troops walk down road, light plane over village.  Road w/ Arab riding donkey, soldiers on radio telephone, stop Arab & search baskets.  Use metal detector.

11:12:54  Women & children ordered out of house; men & boys searched w/ metal detectors.  Arabs tightly loaded into back of truck & driven away.

Colonial Rule; Independence Movement; Revolution; Ethnics; Military Rule;

 

 

220884   01:20:17 - 01:23:31            1950s ?          SIL       B/W    French Officers with Arabs
Desert landscape French officers with Arab troops in fort.  Aftermath of bomb attack? on building.  French officer with group of Arabs in desert.  Arabs hand over weapons, rifles to French officer.  Arab house flying white surrender flag.  Other surrender flag.  Tanks on road.  Group of Arabs.  Sandstorm. Injured airlifted by helicopter.  Sign re customs post.  French military?

 

280101   01:41:45 - 01:46:36            1951   Sd        B/W

INCLUDING:

01:44:02  Title:  In Algeria, 40,000 French troops go on maneuvers in the Sahara Desert.  Marching across sandy desert; tanks on maneuvers, Foreign Legion troops & others alongside & in trucks, jeeps & firing guns.  Arab soldiers charging over top of dunes.  Military maneuvers.  01:44:52

 

 

220795   15:16:31 - 15:18:07            28Jan52         Sd        B/W                Indo-China - French Repulse Red Attack On Hanoi
French Foreign legion trained at Algiers - parachuting.
Actual fighting in Indochina - wounded on stretchers.  US planes napalm jungle.  Dead Chinese volunteers.  Aftermath terrorist bombing in Saigon - blood on steps and bloody Vietnamese corpse.

 

220798   19:05:36 - 19:06:59            1953?            B/W    SIL       [Protest in France]
Ceremony at tomb of unknown soldier under Arc de Triomphe with PM Joseph Laniel - people protesting and VIP gets into car hurriedly; crowd surrounds car and shakes it - beginnings of a riot.  Ren Pleven? makes his way through  crowd and gets into car.  
- protesters look North African - re Algeria?? 1953 strikes?

221546   12:19:28 - 12:27:57            1954; B/W    SIL       [Algerian war]

     INCLUDING:
12:24:53  Algeria, rocky hillside; damaged stone bridge.  Cemetery on ridge.  Road sign:  143 Biskra, Lambese 1, 92 Khenchela.  Field w/ windsock; hanger.  Small helicopter landing, taking off.  Barracks, army trucks w/ troops & jeep down street.
12:26:01  LS down gravel road to village.  Sign:  Arris (NE Algeria).  Pan to river bottom & smoke (?).
AND:
12:27:12  ca Nov54  French soldiers w/ Arab hurry past Algerian village buildings; remove robe & search him.  French soldiers into house.  Personnel carrier along road past soldier.  Plane dropping two parachutes, watched by soldiers w/ machine guns.

 

221726-05        11:29:25 - 11:30:39            1955   Sil       B/W    [1955 - Morocco (?) Unid. French & Arab VIPs]

Prime Minister or VIP (?) reviewing French troops; talking w/ various officers.  Machine gunner on top of lookout; VIP looking thru telescope.  Black.

11:30:02  Interior Arabic courtyard thru ornate wrought-iron gates.

11:30:04  Ca 12Oct55 Arab VIP out of car, shaking hands; interior reading statement at desk addressed to Sidi Mohammed Youssef.  CUs.  Stands up from desk, w/ reporters.  Ext. reporters & ??

     Moroccan VIP; Colonial France; Empire; Colonialism; North Africa;

221050   21:27:36 - 21:29:42            1955 c            B/W    SIL       [Algerian Leaders Attend Conference In France]
Plane taxis along runway, soldiers watching.  Man in Arab dress out - RAF markings on plane?  Lakeside road w/ sign Aix-les-Bains: Ville Accueillante est Hostile au Bruit - traffic past - French resort of Aix-les-Bains near the Alps.  EXT hotel Splendide - pan down to fountain.  Smiling man into hotel; Arab men wearing fez hats along road; elderly man in Arab garb helped along corridor by two assistants.  Algerian men assemble in hotel conference room - photographers - VIPs around table.

220880   1955   Sd        B/W    Highlights of 1955

INCLUDING

15:54:24  - 15:55:02 French Colonial crises in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia:  riot aftermaths with burning cars and wreckage.  Rabat - Huge crowd welcomes exiled  Moroccan sultan Mohammed Ibn Yusuf.  Yusuf sits on throne.

 

221679-04        16:24:48 - 16:27:20            Sil       B/W    [1956 - Algerian FLN Leaders Arrested]

MS FLN member Ahmed Ben Bella after arrest by French Army out of police station.

16:24:57  L to R Mohamed Boudiaf & Hocien Ait Ahmed out of doorway.

16:25:02  L to R Hocien Ait Ahmed & Mostefa Lacheraf, pan to Mohamed Boudiaf & Ben Bella.  CUs & posing in front of police vans.  Walked into Ministere de LInterieur.  All in handcuffs.

16:25:59  View from roof of jail or military outpost w/ guarded entrance & heavy fence barricade.  Cars entering & leaving past soldiers.

16:26:26  CU sign:  Ministere de LInterieur.  Cars parked in courtyard.

16:26:31  Int.  narrow hall w/ cell doors.  Ben Bella (?) out & up stairs.

16:26:34  ?? out of doorway, followed by Hocine Ait Ahmed, Mohamed Khider in suits.

16:26:57  MCU two French soldiers watching.

16:27:00  Mostefa Lacheraf shaving in cell, MCU.  Dressing in suit & vest.  CU of suitcases.

NOTE:  As a delegation of FLN they were arrested ca 22Oct56 when the French pilot of an Air Maroc DC-3 landed in Algiers on a flight from Rabat to Tunis while headed for Cairo, Egypt; then imprisoned in France.

 

 

221679-10        16:35:29 - 16:36:33            1956   Ail       B/W    [1956 - French Troops & Equipment to Algeria]

Large docks w/ military equipment; loading aboard large freighter Sidi Mabrouk.  Troops board w/ duffel bags up gangway.

16:35:55 View from ship leaving harbor & at sea w/ troops along rail.  Algiers harbor & men off ship, along dock.

 

221679-19        16:49:10 - 16:51:17            1956   Sil       B/W    [1956 - Algerian (?) Arab Deaths; City Marketplace & Moslem Prayers]

Arab men carry bodies in tarps & sacks & load onto back of truck, some wrapped in sheets. 

16:49:39  CU sign:  Ait Amar.   Cat across empty lot in front of badly damaged & burned building.  CU notebook & doll on ground; shoe in front of destroyed car parked in garage w/ collapsed roof.

16:49:51  Soldier past burned out car beside destroyed building.  Soldiers along road w/ car & other men talking.  Man w/ arm in sling walked from house by men carrying rifles.

16:50:02  Night & burning fires / buildings.  Firemen hosing down flames.

16:50:23  Medina or marketplace w/ many Arabs, sheep & goats.  Prayer in mosque.  City stalls & people.  Man leading goat by ear.  Men & children.  Man cooking & selling rice dish w/ scale.

16:51:13  Trolley thru crowd.

 

221680-02        18:10:28 - 18:12:08            1956   Sil       B/W    [1956 - French Fortresses Constructed on Algeria or Cyprus]

Aerial of several fortresses on hilltops w/ tent barracks alongside.

18:10:51  Men working beside road w/ buildings on top of hill; constructing barbed wire fence & building rock walls of observation post. 

18:11:43  Men getting food beside outdoor stove; sign on tent Ristaurant Mon Dilice.  Men eating in shade.  Lookout over valley.  Men raising French flag; helicopter landing pad.  Guard & flag silhouetted w/ water beyond at sunset or sunrise.

NOTE:  Probably Algeria but need proof.

 

221680-04        8:19:13 - 18:22:24 Sil       B/W    [1956 - Algeria, French Officials Inspect Military & Tour Industrial Plants]

MS Arab crowd watching two French (taller may be Francois Mitterand) officials off plane & greeted by French officers.  Row of Arab men holding flags, nearest says Oran (faded).

18:19:30  Reviewing French troops along roadside standing in convoy of military vehicles.  Crowd of civilians applauding.  MCU French VIPs walking & mounting review stand; military band of Foreign Legion (?) leading troops passing.  MCU of VIPs; troops; crowd watching.

18:20:05  Tanks in review; half track troop carriers.  VIPS.  Tanks.  Arabs applauding.  Europeans.  Tanks.  Military parade moving thru central city, man throws flowers (?) from balcony; people applauding (GOOD).

18:20:46  Limousine in motorcade passing people lining street.  People wave in front of College Moderne De Jeunes Filles.

18:21:02  VIPs walking outside factory w/ businessmen.  Inspecting interior of glass bottle manufacturing plant - VIPs shakes hands w/ Algerian Arab inspecting bottles.  Inspect other plant w/ large control panel.  Ext. talking to workers (MOS).

18:21:50  Given tour of steel mill; steel bars rolled; steel poured.  Handshaking.

 

 

220290   06:14:48 - 06:15:45            28Jun56         sd         B/W   
Paris - Student demo . Graduation day parade - violent clashes with police - demo is against conscription for the Algeria crisis - running battles on streets - student arrested.

221355   19:06:57 - 19:08:00            1956   B/W    SD        News In Brief - Paris (University Students Hold Sit-Down Strike)
Graduation day & students demonstrate against Algerian war call-ups.  Police battle young people w/ capes, fists.  Arrests.

NOTE:  GOOD picture & event coverage.

 

H1906-01          01:00:18 - 01:17:16            1957   Sil       B/W

Title.  Pt. 1 of 4

01:00:28  Staged French military truck thru hills attacked by Algerian rebels / insurgents & sprayed w/ gunfire.

01:00:59 - 01:03:16  Eric Sevareid explaining Algerian conflict.  CAN NOT BE SOLD.

01:03:16 - 01:04:28  1830-1930 carved on monument at Lookout Point w/ David Schoenbrun on camera.  DO NOT SELL.

01:04:28  Recreational beach w/ families on sand, sunbathing, playing cards, swimming.

01:05:05  Pedestrians on street in Algiers; street cafe w/ business men & women.  Casino marquee.

01:05:28  Bomb destroyed interior w/ blood on ceiling.

01:05:38  LS & MS  Many people waiting for buses, traffic past.

01:06:02  Traffic policeman, buses, cars; Arab pedestrians.  Tree-lined street w/ Europeans / French, mother & baby buggy; French paratrooper patrolling. 

01:07:07  Men taking inventory of farm equipment at manufacturing plant.

01:07:33 - 01:08:10 David Schoenbrun w/ microphone interviews owner.  This is my home...

01:08:10  Owner & foreman in yard.

01:08:28  Colonial planters farm w/ laborers & guard w/ gun patrolling.  Men & boys picking harvest.

01:08:43  Farmer & CU showing missing finger; son points out bullet holes in car.  Guards & farm house w/ barbed wire & sign:  mines.  Cement pillboxes on corners of house.

01:10:00  Int. w/ farmer reading magazine on couch; son from pillbox w/ machine gun changes places w/ father who looks out from peephole.

01:10:12  Son walking outside shaking hands w/ workers & visiting their families; driving guards in jeep to equipment & soldier riding on bulldozer.  Drops other guards at lookout.

01:11:14  Man in back of truck.

01:11:30  Man in field working w/ pick in vegetable field; overhead shot of truck past crowded market stalls.  View of narrow Arab street.

01:11:56 - 01:12:04  Schoenbrun on camera outside Casbah.  DO NOT SELL.

01:12:04  Kids in street looking at camera; men working in stall.  French army patrolling narrow street of native quarter.  CU sign:  Rue Porte-Neuve.  Soldiers into house searching cupboards & hidden tunnel w/ box of terrorist bombs.  CUs.

01:14:21  Ext. smoking ground after explosion.  Remnant of clothes on barbed wire.  Arab women & children around farm (?) buildings; body of assassinated baby & girl shown.  Soldiers w/ Arabs along railroad track on Algerian - Tunisian border.  Armored small railroad cars along electrical railroad, POV w/ soldiers.

01:15:36  Three small French Army single-engine Piper monoplanes take off to patrol.  POV from airplane & air to air of plane.

01:16:03  Camels along ridge of sand dunes; mcu w/ soldier leading caravan & officers talking on radios; planes overhead.  Soldiers & camels ride up sand dune, soldiers on foot w/ rifles running to surround Arabs on foot, arrest men.  Soldier w/ mine detector finds guns.  Continued...

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H1906-02          01:17:16 - 01:37:07            1957   B/W

Continued Pt. 2 of 4

Bugler & French soldiers raising flag on flag pole.  Army trucks entering camp of 153rd Regiment, 11th Division.  Guard post; men washing up, shaving after patrol.  Eating under trees.  CUs.  Drinking & relaxing.

01:18:42  Half-track trucks w/ army leaving on patrol.  Piper cub plane taking off to accompany, aerials over mountains, pilot on radio; ground soldier on radio - telephone; trucks along tree-lined road.  Soldiers jump out & crawl up embankment & put on arm band.  Run up to heavily damaged building & search, throwing grenades.  Patrol runs forward, piper cub low overhead.  Soldiers w/ dogs to nearly empty village, women & children.  Arrested one limping man.  CU inspecting wounded, swelled knee; bandaging & boarding truck.  CU troops.  French flag; building sign:  Mairie des L-eni Miscera.  Arab women & children in yard of ??.  Building w/ sign:  Section Administrative Specialisee aka SAS w/ officer past.

01:24:06  David Schoenbrun shaking hands w/ SAS officer in village; native village irregular troops at attention.

01:24:27  CUs civilians, Harka / Harkis, of the village.  Native people watching Schoenbrun & VIPS talking to Muslim Arab defense forces w/ shotguns.

01:25:12  Interior & village council men sit down at table w/ French officer; talk, listen.

01:25:32 - 01:26:47  MCU Eric Sevareid; in front of map; Correspondent Frank Kearns DO NOT SELL.  

01:26:47  Large group of Algerian refugees, barefoot women, children & old men, moving into Tunisia; w/ Red Cross workers - doctors & nurses treating feet, etc.  Pass out food.

01:28:58  Sevareid.  DO NOT SELL.

01:29:22  Correspondent (?) on mule w/ FLN troops / rebels leading across grassy mountains.  CU feet.  Thru olive orchard / grove.  Algerian troops at attention, drilling.  Reading, cleaning rifles under trees.  CU cooking pot, dishing into mess kits.

01:30:50  Woman in village kneading bread (?) in large stone bowls.

01:31:12  Soldiers w/ rifles run down steep slope; gather w/ others under trees; MCU soldiers sleeping, one w/ pistol; sentries.  Men leaving.  Men praying together on dirt.  Men dancing & singing for camera.  MCU of women soldiers.

01:33:01  Young soldiers eating, smiling.

01:33:08  Group of soldiers w/ rifles drilling; MCUs of Captain & men.  Captain picks up orphan boy, shows him pistol.  Officer drilling troops.  CU woman soldier; nurse; taking care of children.

01:35:34  Men marching w/ flag & rifles & machine guns.  Airplane over, men run into trees.  Rebels w/ camouflage of branches under trees, move forward.

01:36:54  Frank Kearns speaks to camera.  DO NOT SELL.  Continued...

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H1906-02          01:37:06 - 01:50:11            1957   B/W

Continued...  Pt. 3 of 4

FLN soldiers over rocky hillside. 

01:37:30 - 01:37:50  Correspondent Frank Kearns to camera.  DO NOT SELL.

01:37:50  FLN troops across rocky hillside; MCUs

01:38:22  Civilian men w/ wounded soldier; medic treating severely wounded.  Man carried on stretcher of limbs.  LS of soldiers across grass valley & trees.

01:40:02  Animated drawings illustrating French attack on village.

01:40:10  View of destroyed farm buildings.  Refugees to FLN for food ration; woman & children.  Clothes given out.  Older village men on sit on hillside listening to soldier.

01:41:47  Algerian answering reporter in English as to why he fled French.

01:42:28  Line of recruits arriving, enlisting; putting on uniforms & given guns.  Calisthenics, training.  Given pay.

01:43:41  Correspondent Kearns talking to camera re French claim that FLN is Communist.  DO NOT SELL.

01:44:14  Troop w/ rifle; CU.  Other weapons.  CU automatic pistol & other guns w/ serial numbers & ??.  Soldiers across hillside toward camera w/ rifles.

01:45:00  Kearns to camera.  DO NOT SELL.

01:45:10  Guns & clothing issued to recruits.

01:45:46  Kearns to camera.  DO NOT SELL.

01:45:49  2-motor French plane overhead; take cover. 

01:45:59  Kearns talks of American aid to French.

01:46:32  FLN troops loading pack mule.  Refugees.  Summary shots of FLN troops; hiding from plane; sitting on hillside w/ soldiers; eating from community tin bowl; wounded; evacuation of wounded; Kearns & tape recorder.

01:48:14  Kearns talks to camera.  Sevareid.  DO NOT SELL.  Continued...

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H1906-02          01:50:11 - 01:58:49            1957   B/W

Continued...  Pt 4 of 4

Larry LeSueur w/ FLN spokesman at United Nations who explains why France cant solve the Algerian problem w/o taking into account the Arab Algerians & talking w/ them.

01:52:12  Sevareid to camera. DO NOT SELL.

01:52:29  French Minister Robert Lacoste gives Frances position on why France refuses to grant Independence to Algeria, speaks in French w/ voice-over saying Soviet Communists would fill the void if France left.  France has never refused to negotiate...

01:54:18  David Schoenbrun on steps of French government building in Algiers, speaks to camera.  DO NOT SELL.

01:55:10  Sevareid to camera.  Schoenbrun to camera  DO NOT SELL.

01:57:29  Young Arab boys drill w/ wooden mock rifles & sing.  Child Soldiers (?)

01:57:44  Title:  Algeria Aflame, credits roll.  CBS eye logo.

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220305   06:48:45 - 06:49:11            26Apr57         Sd        B/W                News in Brief - Morocco
New King Mohammed V arrives in open top car - crowds - King calls for peace in Algeria (not heard) crowd cheer

 

221550-22        18:56:58 - 18:57:48            1957   B/W    SD        News In Brief - Algeria  (Melouza Massacre)
18:57:03  Roofs of stone mountain village, Melouza.  French soldiers & others into house.  CU blood & aftermath, weapons, bones.
18:57:24  Survivors in field w/ soldiers.  MCU w/ soldiers.  Wounded survivors.
NOTE:  track problems.

221555   02:26:48 - 02:27:38            1957 ca          B/W    SIL       [Police & Soldiers Show Captured North Africans, ca 1957]
Pan over papers on table.  Graph:  1956 w/ numbers graphing sharp rise, dropping in 1957.  Plotted by month.  French (?) police w/ machine guns and arrested man; returned to cell (?).
02:27:12  CU Three machine guns pointed at his back.
02:27:23  MS  Small young woman w/ lawyer (?); soldiers w/ guns pointed at her.  MCU.  CU Motion picture cameramen.
Revolutionaries; Terrorists; Colonialism; Colonialist Propaganda; 1950s; Algerians (?)

 

 

221436-09        23:10:21 - 23:12:41            15May58        Sd        B/W                [Algerian Revolt By French Settlers - Military Coup]

Brief LS of city; protesting crowd against proposed Pflimlin government in park, in front of Cathedral w/ banners, French flags.  Military generals thru crowds w/ brief shot of Gen. Raoul Salan (?).

23:10:47   CU General Jacques Massu.  Crowd rioting US information agency & breaking thru gates.  People inside.  Rioting around Government House in Algiers.  Throwing stones in park beside pool.  Soldiers on balconies, in streets w/ papers blowing around.

23:11:40  Champs Elysees & veterans marching at Arc de Triumph & flower laying.  Fighting & soldiers & police beating people; chasing thru streets.  Rioting.  Pedestrians & street scenes.

23:12:20  Interior of Assembly & government electing Pflimlin.  CU Pfimlin speaking.  Applause by members.

 

221436   23:12:50 - 23:14:57            19May58        Sd        B/W                [De Gaulle Agrees To Lead France]

Troops & police guarding Paris streets, people past in street.

23:13:09  Premier Pierre Pflimlin out of Citroen & past camera into bulding.  Army trucks w/ soldiers thru streets (Paris or Algiers?).  Paris & pedestrians & police walking on sidewalk; police standing about.  Car into government building.

23:13:51  Huge crowd of pro-De Gaulle settlers in Algiers; people waving French flags.  General Salan (?); Jacques Soustelle (sp?) arrives from France.

23:14:36  Soustelle w/ Gen. Jacques Massu & press conference.

 

 

220646   09:45:22 - 09:46:25            1958 / 1960 B/W    SD        Algerian Crisis - De Gaulle Plan Sparks Strike, Street Fight
LS of Algiers.  Martial law - Soldiers patrol power stations, dams.  Demonstrators.  Gen. Massu.  Rioting demonstrators shown in 1958 outside large buildings. (goes dupey looking at 09:46:13).

 

 

220293   12:31:20 - 12:32:09            16Mar59        Sd        B/W                News in Brief ; French Veronique Rocket Fired in Algeria.
Research rocket put on launch pad - rocket launched

 

221416   06:00:09 - 06:01:13            6Jul61            Sd        B/W                80 Moslems Die - Algerians Riot To Bar Partition

City rooftops, streets w/ military trucks & soldiers; native quarter & narrow street w/ rocks & stones on pavement, soldiers.  Graffitti.  Soldiers fire mortars up stairs & streets.  Arresting large numbers of young men marching them down street w/ hands on heads.  Soldiers hold captured (? Algerian flag.

Note:  Algerians protesting French demands of close relationship if Independence is granted.

 

220646   09:45:22 - 09:46:25            25Jan60         Sd        B/W                Algerian Crisis - De Gaulle Plan Sparks Strike, Street Fight
LS of Algiers.  Martial law - Soldiers patrol power stations, dams.  Demonstrators.  Gen. Massu.  Rioting demonstrators shown in 1958 outside large buildings. (goes dupey looking at 09:46:13).

 

221625-22        01:20:22 - 01:21:30            04/02/1960 Sd        B/w     News In Brief - Algiers

01:20:27  High angle of men in street; street level of barricades removed as rebels surrender.  French soldiers thru & moving rebels.

01:20:43  Rebel leader Pierre Lagaillarde.  High angle of rebels boarding Army trucks for induction into French Foreign Legion.  Army trucks leaving in convoy uphill past buildings.

01:21:15  Pedestrians past shop windows, window washer, traffic past.

01:21:25  View up street w/ parked army trucks & soldiers.

 

221508   04:44:31 - 04:46:31            1960   B/W    SD        Algeria Aflame - De Gaulles Visit Sets Off Renewed Turmoil
De Gaulle walking w/ French military VIPS & ??  Arabs watching, applauding.  Crowds running thru streets in riot by French settlers.  Street barricade & throwing teargas & rocks.
01:45:39  Tanks & soldiers running alongside thru streets towards rioters.  Soldiers catch man & beat w/ rifle butt.  Man carried off.  Soldiers move up behind tanks seen from upper floors of building.

 

 

220919   02:38:35 - 02:44:03            02Jan61         SD        b/w                 News Highlights of 1960
02:38:52: Street clashes in Algeria, General de Gaulle and crowds

X 221171            18:26:10 - 18:36:45            1961   B/W    SD        Russian News of the Day  1962 #27 July
INCLUDING:
18:32:57  Algerian said yes.  Oran, Algeria, dark smoke cloud over city & houses, people on the street around stacks of burning furniture, clothes.  Algerian women smile wave at camera, big lines of people gather to vote for countrys liberation, Arab women all dressed in white, people place their votes as army watches, various shots of people - applaud, celebrate, run through streets w/ flags, high angle of residential homes.
18:33:58 

 

221416   06:00:09 - 06:01:13            1961   B/W    SD        80 Moslems Die - Algerians Riot To Bar Partition
City rooftops, streets w/ military trucks & soldiers; native quarter & narrow street w/ rocks & stones on pavement, soldiers.  Graffitti.  Soldiers fire mortars up stairs & streets.  Arresting large numbers of young men marching them down street w/ hands on heads.  Soldiers hold captured (? Algerian flag.
Note:  Algerians protesting French demands of close relationship if Independence is granted.

221555   03:12:28 - 03:13:24            1961; 1960s;            B/W    SD        [Paris, France voting on Algerian Referendum, 1961]
03:12:32  Pan to Arc de Triumph of pedestrians walking along shops; lined up at voting booths & CU picking up ballots & putting in ballot box.  De Gaulle & wife entering poll, shaking hands & into voting booth.

221555   03:13:24 - 03:14:55            1961; 1960s;            B/W    SD        [1961, Neutral African Leaders Meet in Casablanca]
03:13:30  Nasser arriving on yacht for conference of neutralist African leaders of five nations.  Nasser in sunglasses at rail.
03:13:45  Moroccan King Mohammad V & military officials.  Nasser & King walking, violently waving crowds.
03:13:53  Nkrumah of Ghana arrives by plane & greeted, MCU.
03:14:19  Algerian rebel leader Ferhat Abbas arrives, greeted & walks waving.
03:14:36  Group around large oval table.  MCUs.  Leaders standing & applauding.
Diplomacy; Independent Nations; Conference;
NOTE:  Charter of Casablanca was result of meeting of Morocco w/ leaders from United Arab Republic, Ghana, Guinea & Mali.

220919   02:00:05 - 02:06:30            01Jan62         SD        b/w                 News Highlights of 1961
02:00:54: Street fighting in Algeria

220919   02:06:39 - 02:08:30            19Mar62        SD        b/w                 Algerian Truce: Secret Army Vows to Continue Fight
Charles de Gaulle announces Algerian ceasefire in Paris; AV de Gaulles earlier visit to Algeria; street rioting in Algeria; Secret Army organization vows to keep fighting and calls for national strike; streets calm for time being.

220919   02:13:14 - 02:14:20            22Mar62        SD        b/w                 Uneasy Peace: Algeria Tense Under Cease-Fire
AVs Algiers, streets empty due to general strike called by pro-French Secret Army; barbed wire and roadblocks.

220293   13:16:31 - 13:17:17            2Apr62                       Sd        B/W                Algeria Seethes - Cease Fire Pact brings no Peace
Military patrolling streets - trucks and tank - damaged vehicles - bullet marks in walls - wrecked buildings following riots - sign on wall OAS - crowds on streets. (independence)

220308   11:15:08 - 11:16:00            9Apr62           Sd        b/w                 De Gaulle Wins - Yes Vote Backs Algerian Plans
Overhead shot of Paris boulevard with cars going up to the Arc de Triomphe.  Referendum posters in street. Political parties posters MRP, UNR.  French people casting votes at polling station.  Huge crowd, de Gaulle makes speech.
Referendum on whether to ratify Evian ceasefire agreement with Algerians.

220919   02:21:01 - 02:22:06            18Jun62         SD        b/w                 News In Brief - Algeria
Streets of Algiers under guard but calm after tentative peace pact between Muslim leaders and pro-French Secret Army organisation; bomb-damaged buildings and cars; military and public on streets; Charles de Gaulle meeting Algerians.

 

220308   11:21:28 - 11:22:18            2Jul62                        Sd        b/w                 News in Brief - Algerians Vote for Independence
Overhead shot Algiers, streets of Algiers with traffic, pedestrians, men and women. men searched before going into polling station with graffiti for free Algeria, casting votes, old men with turbans.
Crowd with Algerian flags, crowd of women in white hijab. crowd stands up and claps.

221436   23:25:29 - 23:27:01            9Jul62                        SD        B/W                [Algerian Independence Celebrations & Leaders]

Native Algerian troops parade thru crowds in Oran during Independence victory celebrations.  MS women clapping, troops marching. 

23:25:56  Night.  Happy people, French soldiers walking iin crowds.  Flags, cheering crowds applauding.

23:26:07  Premier Ben Khedda waving from open jeep in motorcade on wide road in Algiers.  Jumping native crowds cheering.  MCU of Ben Khedda in dark glasses waving; waving from balcony.

23:26:43  Moroccan leader greeting Ben Khedda & Ben Bella in Rabat, Morocco; walking, posing.

 

220308   11:26:10 - 11:26:59            9Aug62           Sd        b/w     News In Brief - Algeria - Ben Bella returns
Premier Ben Khedda giving speech re. stepping down for Ben Bella.
Ben Bella out of plane after 7 years prisoner of French, welcoming crowd.  People with flags on cars in blocked traffic.  Large crowd cheering.  Ben Bella and others discussing indoors.

 

220308   10:28:08 - 10:34:19            1Jan1963       Sd        B/W                News review of 1962 -
10:30:12  End of French - Algerian War
Arc de Triomphe.  De Gaulle. French soldiers and tanks in Algerian city, Vice premier Ben Bella cheered in crowd. French decolonisation  10:30:44 India and China Joust
Himalayan mountains at Northern frontier in India, Chinese troops on mountain. Anti-Chinese demonstration in India, Chinese Out placards, people donating their jewellery. PM Nehru giving speech to crowd, saluting namaskar to camera. Cold War  10:31:17 Death of Eleanor Roosevelt
President FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt waving from White House balcony. Churchill mourning. Eleanor talking to children at family estate. Obituary  10:31:40 Popes Ecumenical Council
John 23rd in procession out of St Peters Cathedral.  Crowd of Catholic bishops, sitting inside St Peters. 

 

220728   09:01:32 - 09:02:49            9May63          SD        B/W                News in Brief - Algeria
King Farouk's former yacht into harbour & Ben Bella greets Abdul Nasser.  People cheering as they smile together.  Flag waving & crowds cheer truck carrying Nasser through streets.  Nasser smiling at mic.  Join hands.

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