ROVING REPORT NO 48

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: ITN 132).

Synopsis

Report in two sections.

1. Interview with Garfield Todd, who is under house arrest, and partial coverage of a news conference given by his gaoler Ian Smith. Former Prime Minister is pessimistic about Rhodesia's future and considers that Smith's policy of continuing minority rule will eventually harm the whites as much as it already handicaps the blacks. Smith himself in an attack on the world's greatest multiracial association, the Commonwealth, derides "wonderful democratic majority rule" in Nigeria, Ghana, and Cyprus, arguing that "these cases show how enlightened democratic civilisations can be transformed almost overnight into unenlightened totalitarian regimes". In answer to the question "could Rhodesia weather economic sanctions?" the Prime Minister replies "If we have to we will". British businessmen in the audience look concerned. 2. Several small boats with Cubans on board arrive at Key West from Camarioca. Reporter at sea in a US coastguard cutter presents Castro's decision temporarily to lift the ban on emigration as the opportunity for a mass escape from "communist domination to freedom".

 

Titles

  • ROVING REPORT NO 48 (Other)
 

Technical Data

Year:
1965
Running Time:
25 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Sound
Footage:
873 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
Production company
Independent Television News
reporter
Bosanquet, Reginald
reporter
Woods, Peter