ROVING REPORT NO 16 1966
Report in two sections.
1. Film of the specialised jungle warfare training which US conscripts receive before being posted to Vietnam. After basic training, soldiers are taught how to search a typical native house ...
Report in two sections.
1. Film of the specialised jungle warfare training which US conscripts receive before being posted to Vietnam. After basic training, soldiers are taught how to search a typical native house ...
Report in two sections.
1. Report investigates local reactions to the killing by ZANU terrorists of a white couple in the farming district of Hartley. Neighbours appear fearless, and determined not to renounce their ...
Report in two sections.
1. Recent judgement of the International Court at The Hague that Ethiopia and Liberia had no right to bring a case against South Africa's control of South West Africa will in effect enable Dr ...
Views of the C-in-C Middle East, Secretary General of the South Arabian League, Acting High Commissioner and various British civilians in Aden on the colony's future after independence.
Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu ...
Report in two sections.
1. Assessment of the politics and personality of Vorster and their probable effect on the future of South Africa. A former pro-Nazi and lawyer who as Minister of Justice was responsible for ...
Report in two sections.
1. The effect of sanctions on Rhodesian politics. Sanctions against Rhodesia have had unexpected economic and psychological effects, according to a Salisbury stockbroker who says that blockade ...
Report in two sections.
1. Story of the attempt by two Britons to row across the Atlantic which ended when their specially built and well-equipped 15 and a half ft. boat capsized. Probability is that Puffin was ...
Report examines the reaction of white Rhodesians to Ian Smith's rejection of Wilson's proposals for an independence settlement and also shows that the effect of sanctions on the standard of living of Smith's supporters has ...
"To Westminster - The Queen." HM Queen Elizabeth II undertakes the State Opening of Parliament, April 1966.
Newsreel cameras film the State Opening of Parliament for the first time. Among those also in attendance is ...
An examination of sanctions busting in Rhodesia, and how goods are getting in and out of the country.
Drama set in Kenya. Two American cowboys are recruited by a British rancher to help him in a project involving the capturing and taming of wild animals and by breeding new stock to provide a source of food. The object is to halt the ...
The violence against the British presence in Aden and the future of the South Arabian Federation. Llew Gardner spoke to the Secretary-General of the South Arabian League in Aden and Robert Kee spoke to Duncan Sandys and ...
Documentary on the choice of the Atlantic island of Ascension as a tracking station for satellites and rockets and its transformation.
‘Drab endless vistas of scree’ was Michael Orrom's first impression of ...
A report on the annual congress of the Rhodesian Front from September 1967.
A tour of Salisbury and the surrounding areas set to music. The film opens with aerial views of the city as a plane lands at Salisbury airport.
Installation on Ascension Island of a British-built tracking station, with its huge aerial for reception of signals from outer space.
Travelogue of Hong Kong
A look at modern life in several south African countries.
A report on the tension between China and Hong Kong and the border clashes of 1967.
A look at life on Ascension Island.
DOCUMENTARY. A report on Anguilla's illegal declaration of independence from the West Indies Associated States.
A report on Anguilla, with Robert Bradshaw and Sir Frederick Phillips.
Dramatised recruitment film for prospective Royal Navy officers.
1. Prospective recruits (in civvies) are taken onboard HMS Dolphin; sequence focuses on one of the recruits, "Brendon" (a Welshman who gives us his ...
Unedited news film of the Queens Lancashire Regiment on security duties in Aden in September 1967 during the anti-British Insurgency shows soldiers off-duty in camp, searching Arab taxies and their passengers for arms at Checkpoint Bravo, cookhouse ...
Reel of rushes of 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on patrol in Aden during the Emergency (with live sound during rough searching of Arab suspects), and of mute rushes of British soldiers on patrol, unarmed, in the peaceful British ...
Amateur film shot by Midshipman Ian Shuttleworth while serving on HMS Salisbury in the Far East between August 1963 and September 1964 during Confronation in Borneo records leave in Hong Kong, carrier and helicopter activity, Crossing the Line ...
Film shows diplomatic life in Aden in 1967 at the end of British rule. Also includes military manoeuvres, and ends with sequences of the diplomatic staff making a bonfire of documents marked "Top Secret".
Also further ...
Footage from Mr Day's time as Senior Political Officer in the South Arabian Federation between 1964 and 1967.
Production / Donor Details: Mr Day entered HMOCS as Political Officer, Western Aden Protectorate, in 1961. From 1964-67 he ...
VHS containing various film items illustrating Mr Crouch's life and travels as a British official in Southern Arabia. It shows many aspects of life in the desert, including stunning scenery, military patrols, good shots of the Hadhrami ...
Family shots of Mr Crouch's engagement, wedding & honeymoon in East Africa. Back on duty in Aden, and other holiday footage.
Production / Donor Details: Mr Crouch served as a political officer in the Aden Protectorates and Aden ...
David Dimbleby interviews Sir Donald and Lady Cleland, Close up of questions.
DOCUMENTARY. A report on the political situation in Aden and the role of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Includes an interview with Lt. Col. Colin Campbell Mitchell.
Rediffusion logo (00:04). Opening ...
Measures being taken against communism in Hong Kong. With Sir David Trench, P.S. Woo, David Lai, Elsie Elliott, and police commissioner T.C. Eates
THE REFERENDUM OF SEPTEMBER 10TH 1967 IN WHICH GIBRALTAR> VOTED TO REMAIN A BRITISH COLONY
Portrait of the culture of South Arabia just prior to the revolution and take over of the area by the National Liberation Forces.
DOCUMENTARY. The build-up of British forces in the Gulf States.
The commander of a British platoon in Bahrain, Lt. Pattinson, explaining the reasons for Britain's presence to a group of new arrivals (13). Titles. A military band ...
A information piece on the work of AFBA, the Aden Forces Broadcasting Authority, responsible for the forces' radio entertainment. A short sequence in the middle of the reel shows an Army ...
HMS Albion arrives to help in the withdrawal from Aden. Onshore the Royal Marines stay on the alert.
A small party of British troops, presumably Roman Catholics, prepare for an open- ...
Men of 45 RM Commando are addressed by Major-General Tower before flying out of Khormaksar in RAF Hercules transports.
Royal Marines file past the camera carrying personal arms and kit. CU of General Tower as he ...
Compilation produced by the Royal Navy of various items filmed by Naval cameramen around the world during 1967.
Film opens with an introduction from Lieutenant Richard Baker, latterly a popular broadcaster, who ...
SRN6 (Naval markings) seen in hangar, across water, up beach etc. Being refuelled, people embarking and disembarking, stopping near seal colony, returns to base.
Army patrols in city of Aden conduct house searches and check driver's identity papers. Except at the beginning of the reel, there is little evidence of naval participation.
A sailor ...
I. The departing High Commissioner, Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, reviews the Naval task force supporting the British withdrawal. He is accompanied by Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu, C-in-C Middle East Command, who is to return ...
I. HA over the parade ground at Radfan Camp (?), covered in heaps of soldiers' kit - a Wessex helicopter approaches to pick up two cargo nets laden with gear and flies off. LA of Wessex picking up more kit. CUs as ...
Combination of film of street scenes in Canton ("first film since the recent trouble") and interviews with two Hong Kong correspondents forms the basis of this report on the purpose and effect of the "great proletarian ...
Report outlines the political background to the stepped-up violence in Aden and shows how conditions for British soldiers and their families are becoming increasingly dangerous.
Anti-British terrorism will not cease, ...