11/24/69 c0007061 / color

biafra house opens in new york:

local "biafra house" shows: ls biafra house, cu sign in window: pan int store: ms paul o'dwyer looks over same: cu same: cu biafran girl: cu o'dwyer examines fabric: ls same: zoom in on oddities:

(shot 11/24/69 33ft)

nigeria - politics (related)

charities - biafra

o'dwyer, paul - sof

ama, gracie

allalouf / 33 ft / 16 col / pos / d28476

Information taken from two reels of 35MM sound NEG.

Reel 1:

The crowns of Ethiopia.

History.

Modern progress.

Constitution.

Haile Selassie speech at the Opening of Parliament. No sound.

Two Houses in Parliament.

Committees set up.

Elections process.

Finance Committee.

Work of both Houses - Senate and Lower House.

Constitution.

Legal system.

New Palace of Justice.

The Prime Minister and Ministers.

Council of Ministers.

Development Projects visited by members of Legislative Committees Like the Awash Hydro-electric Scheme.

Police Force - recruits training.

Addis Ababa is the centre of government.

Asmara is the Capital of Eritrea.

United by the UN and its people, Eritrea has a Governor General who is overall in charge.

End of reel 1 - 916 FT = 10.10

Reel 2:

Haile Selassie stands supreme.

Setting up the OAU.

Abroad - visits the USA, New York, Washington, Canada.

Visits to Africa.

Attending conferences.

The dispute between Morocco and Algeria. King Hassan - Ben Bella.

In Mali, Mobito Kaita? President.

Haile Selassie OAU mission to Nigeria to try to settle the dispute re Biafra.

Visits to Ethiopia by President of India, The King of Norway, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip.

Haile Selassie drives to the Opening of Parliament.

End of reel 2 - 574 FT = 06.20

Newsreels 1964-67 B

1965/06/21 Bernard Baruch Adviser To Presidents Is Dead At 94

00:00:00

(1) "Bernard Baruch Adviser To Presidents Is Dead At 94" - Baruch sitting on park bench, made plea before Security Council of UN to ban nuclear weapons "choice between the quick and the dead" - with Ike

00:01:31

(2) "Twins in Paris" - Paris Air Show. 2 astronauts, the "Gemini twins" Jim McDivitt and Ed White of recent Gemini-4 where White made historic space walk, with Hubert Humphrey, Yuri Gagarin

00:02:35

(3) "Missile Passes Test. Titan 3-C is Most Powerful Known" - launched with 2 solid fuel boosters on its sides, "tracking camera follows it with unbelievable clarity," and "a triumph for the Air Force." (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 38-50, National Archives, College Park MD 1965/06/28 U.N.'s 20th year. World Body Marks Signing of Charter

00:04:29

(1) (washed out) San Francisco Opera House where original United Nations charter signed - display of painting of Stettinius and Truman - old film of June 1945 signing of UN charter

00:08:56

(2) LBJ on same platform 20 years later, speaks, pauses for applause, "for this generation, simple necessity"

00:08:30

(3) U Thant gives medal to LBJ (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 38-52, National Archives, College Park MD 1965/08/26 Report on Vietnam

00:08:56

(1) (no sound - poor quality) SV soldiers, armored personnel carriers, B-52 drop bombs. (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 38-69, National Archives, College Park MD 1965/08/30 Enterprise in War. Nuclear Carrier Joins 7th Fleet

00:10:19

(1) USS Enterprise nuclear aircraft carrier with guided missile frigate Bainbridge, first nuclear ships to enter combat, good pics of antennas and missiles of Bainbridge

00:11:22

(2) "LBJ Hears Graham" - Houston Astrodome used for Billy Graham revival attended by LBJ (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 38-70, National Archives, College Park MD 1965/12/09 Vietnam Action. Enterprise Planes Support Troops

00:12:33

(1) USS Enterprise aircraft carrier enters combat, launches planes, on ground "small search and kill missions have been increased" but pinned down by enemy fire, medical corpsmen carry wounded

00:14:04

(2) "Act of Faith" - woman walks to Holy Land with donkey on pilgrimage

00:15:12

(3) "Pop Fashions" - models dance to the pop beat in Manchester, one model in bikini dancing, fashionable sunglasses

00:16:52

(4) Football: NY Jets and Joe Namath at San Diego Chargers 38-7 (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 38-99, National Archives, College Park MD 1967/02/28 Viet Sweep. Troops Take Cong Stronghold

00:18:15

(1) Operation Pershing by 1st Cavalry in South Vietnam, village burned, residents relocated, field hospital treats civilians

00:19:23

(2) "Home From The Sea" - carrier USS Coral Sea returns from duty in Vietnam

00:20:22

(3) News In Brief - LBJ signs 25th amendment; mercy ship Phoenix manned by Quaker pacifists sails from Japan; paper airplane contest; Christian Dior in Paris shows hats with African styles

00:23:03

(4) Sports - first Canadian Winter Games at Quebec City feature skaters; Winter Motocross race in Czechoslovakia feature motorcycles in mud and snow (complete newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 40-18, National Archives, College Park MD 1967/03/03 Airbase Shelled. Soviet Rockets Used In Attack

00:25:04

(1) Da Nang air base attacked in Vietnam by 40mm rockets 7 miles away, 47 killed many from local village (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 40-19, National Archives, College Park MD 1967/04/04 Vietnam. Big Enemy force Repulsed by G.I.'s

00:26:12

(1) Marine truck convoy ambushed in Vietnam war; troops attack huge Viet Cong base, foot soldiers advance, roundup prisoners including women; helicopters pick up prisoners

00:27:29

(2) News In Brief - Seattle "be-in" of students and hippies (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 40-28, National Archives, College Park MD 1967/04/18 Peace March. Thousands Oppose Vietnam War

00:28:00

(1) Antiwar demonstrators protest in Central Park, march to UN building, included students and hippies and priests and nuns, burn draft cards, shouted confrontations with anti-antiwar marchers, prowar signs, Martin Luther King leads procession; another march in downtown San Francisco down Market Street to stadium, sponsored by loose coalition of left-wing anti-war groups, "President Johnson meanwhile let it be known that the FBI is closely watching all anti-war activity."- violence in Rome in night demonstration near US embassy, water jets used (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 40-32, National Archives, College Park MD 1967/05/02 Expo 67 'Monument To Man' Opens In Canada

00:31:51

(1) Expo 67 the largest world's fair ever opens in Canada, on two man-made islands in St. Lawrence River, on 100th anniversary of Canada, jets fly overhead, waterfalls (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 40-36, National Archives, College Park MD 1967/05/02 Loyalty Day Parade

00:32:32

(1) Loyalty Day parade on Fifth Ave in New York, originally started as counter to communist May Day parades (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 40-36, National Archives, College Park MD 1967/05/05 Protests Galore!

00:33:08

(1) Vietnam protest demonstration in Britain; also at Madrid University in Spain, burned American flag; also 4000 in Detroit at "love-in" and "be-in" with hippies and wild constumes

00:35:04

(2) News In Brief - U.S. jet bombers hit North Vietnam targets

00:35:45

(3) May Day parade in Moscow, Premier Kosygin (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 40-37, National Archives, College Park MD 1967/06/06 Mid-East. Israeli-Egyptian Battle Erupts

00:36:26

(1) Mideast war develops from Gulf of Aqaba blockade; Arab socialists support Nasser in Cairo, Nasser signs pact with Hussein; Jordan tanks roll; chief-of-staff Rabin and officers

00:37:51

(2) News in brief - 2 US helicopters make 1st nonstop transatlantic flight to Paris; world's largest jetliner DC-8 at Paris Air Show

00:38:45

(3) Boston Roxbury riots, stores burn at night; 40 arrested

00:39:35

(4) Vietnam - entire village evacuated from DMZ

00:40:19

(5) Quemoy underground facilities manned by free Chinese, balloons sent to mainland China 2 miles away (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 40-46, National Archives, College Park MD 1967/06/09 Egypt Accepts United Nations Cease-Fire

00:41:09

(1) Mideast war - Israeli tanks drive across Sinai, capture West Bank and old Jerusalem; Moshe Dayan led battle plan; Arthur Goldberg introduces peace plan in Un in New York City, Abba Eban blamed Nasser, cease-fire resolution adopted, short by decisive mideast war to be followed by diplomatic struggle

00:43:14

(2) Nigeria vs Biafra in Africa, even women volunteer for military service

00:43:49

(3) New York bank sells state lottery tickets

00:44:24

(4) Navy Skyhawk jet attacks North Vietnam from carrier Kitty Hawk

00:44:59

(5) protest against Shah of Iran at West Berlin Opera House, class with Berlin police (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 40-47, National Archives, College Park MD 1967/06/13 Cease-Fire. Uneasy Truce In Mid-East

00:45:43

(1) Six-Day Middle East war debated in UN in New York, Syrian delegate blames Israel, Soviet delegate Federenko, Israel delegate; "swift smashing and total" victory in mideast, prisoners taken, Old Jerusalem captured, drive into Syria, wounded, damaged tanks, "efficient well-trained Israeli army"; UAR commander surrenders in Gaza strip; "Welcome to Bethlehem" sign, tanks enter Old Jerusalem, emotional moment, Dayan, soldiers marching (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 40-48, National Archives, College Park MD 1967/10/24 Anti-War Demonstrators Storm Pentagon

00:50:39

(1) Mass protest against Vietnam war in Washington DC, on mall, across Potomac river to Pentagon, MPs with bayonets emerge from Pentagon, tear gas used, next day camp fires burn on the 2nd day of sitting-in

00:52:11

(2) new turbo-jet transport plane by Germany (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 40-86, National Archives, College Park MD 1967/11/03 Inauguration. Thieu Sworn In, Stresses Peace

00:52:25

(1) South Vietnam inauguration of Thieu as 1st president of the 2nd Republic

0053:07

(2) Westfield, Mass. - support our men in Vietnam rally draws 25,000, organized by teenager in town

00:53:40

(3) SS Queen Mary passenger liner on final journey from Britain to Long Beach (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 40-89, National Archives, College Park MD 1967/12/12 Lynda And Charles Marriage Takes Place In The White House

00:54:07

(1) LBJ escorts Lynda on wedding day, 1st wedding in White House in 53 years, marries Marine Capt Charles Robb, as Lucy is matron of honor, in brief Episcopalian ceremony, emerge from East Room under arch of swords

00:56:11

(2) luxury liner Queen Mary steams up East Coast after 40 day voyage, "the end of an era and a long and gracious career of the Queen Mary"

00:56:49

(3) Capetown, South Africa - Dr. Christian Bernard did 1st heart transplant at this hospital on Louis Warshansky (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 40-100, National Archives, College Park MD

WORLD NEWS REVIEW 1969

Duration 21:00

Sound: Nat Sot

SHOWS

10:00:00 Titles

USA - Washington

00:25

Nixon's Inauguration (SOF)

CS John Mitchell, Attorney General

FRANCE - Paris

01:21

President Nixon and Charles De Gaulle (LS and MS)

USA - Anti-Vietnam War Demos

01:34

"Hippy" with guitar

Student demonstration

Female student with a flag

Anti Vietnam war demonstration

01:53

Nixon (SOF) on reduction of troops

Troops arrive in Seattle

Military parade

Anti war demonstration

Woman placing garland on soldier

VIETNAM

02:34

Troops moving through jungle (various)

CS Foxhole

South Vietnamese troops crossing river

Pilot entering cockpit

AV Bombings

PHILIPPINES

03:39

Airforce One arrives in Philippines

Nixon and wife wave to crowd

Nixon and wife with Marcos (talking)

Nixon meets troops in Vietnam

ROMANIA

04:18

Nixon Motorcade

Nixon doing Romanian circle dance

Crowds

04:35

National Moratorium office

Nixon (SOF) on Moratorium

Mrs Martin Luther King leading demonstration in Washington

New York candlelit march

CS Nixon (SOF) Speaking on war

CS Nixon with 52000 telegrams of support

LS White House

Speaker at rally

Eugene MacCarthy (SOF) speaks to crowd

Hippies march

Police cordon

Clash

VIETNAM

07:28

My Lai (Massacre) A.V. and G.V.

CS Captain Ernest L. Medina

Dead bodies

FRANCE - Paris

08:00

Demonstration against US policies in Vietnam and Cuba

ITALY

08:15

Student anti-government demonstration

JAPAN

08:28

Students protest against President Eisako Sato

Riot police marching on crowd

USA - Civil Rights Demonstrations

08:43

Demonstration: Fort Dix, MIT, Chicago, California, Cornell

Clashes with police

09:37

Chicago - Black Panther H.Q.

Police raiding

Panthers in handcuffs

NIGERIA - Biafra (Famine)

10:26

Dying children

MIDDLE EAST

10:55

Burning oil tankers on Suez Canal

Israeli jeep

Soldiers training (Palestinians)

Soldiers on obstacle course

Fighting on streets of Tripoli

CS Palestinian soldier

Debris after market bombing

CS Gamal Abdel Nasser

FRANCE - Paris (Superpower Summit)

12:14

Delegates at superpower peace talks

Delegates arriving at peace talks

FINLAND - Helsinki (Nuclear Arms talks)

12:45

Nuclear arms talks

Informal reception

Leaders drinking together

FRANCE (Elections)

13:03

Charles de Gaulle's home village

Voters

Portrait of De Gaulle

De Gaulle collecting Ballot Paper

De Gaulle entering voting booth

Photographers

Georges Pompidou (De Gaulle's successor) with others

Georges Pompidou meeting people

WEST GERMANY

13:48

Willi Brandt (New Chancellor) in Parliament

Deaths -

(Eisenhower)

14:09

Coffin of David Eisenhower (ex-President)

General Eisenhower

People filing past coffin

(Ho Chi Minh - Vietnamese leader)

14:20

People reading newspaper

CS Newspaper with photo of Ho Chi Minh

CS Ho Chi Minh

CS Portrait of Ho Chi Minh held by woman on bicycle

(The Death of Mary Jo Chappaquidick)

14:34

Coffin

CS Ted Kennedy after inquest with neck brace

USA - Los Angeles

14:55

Mayor Sam Yurhe

USA - New York

15:06

Mayor John Lindsey

USA - Cleveland

15:14

Mayor Carl Stokes

Carl Stokes in crowd waving

MCS Spiro Agnew on podium (SOF) Lambasting Press

USA - Supreme Court

15:45

Nixon with Clement Hainesworth (Nominee for Supreme Court)

CS Nixon and Hainesworth

Supreme Court in session

USA - Mississippi (Racially Integrated Schools)

16:08

Black school children getting onto school bus

Kids on bus

Children in school

PACIFIC OCEAN (Oil Spillage)

16:33

Santa Barbara beach

Oil covered birds

(Hurricane Carmille)

16:44

Devastated houses in Mississippi

Homeless in temporary shelter

USA - Alaska (Oil)

16:56

SS Manhattan

People looking over side of ship

Ice flow

(747 Starts in Service)

17:04

Boeing 747 landing

747 takes off

Interior 747

USA - (Nude Theatre)

17:13

Poster "I am curious (yellow)"

Theatre (ext) showing "Hair"

Posters from "Hair"

Theatre showing "O Calcutta"

USA - (Drugs)

17:35

Freeway

Customs point

Sack full of Marijuana

Troops emptying sacks

Troops setting fire to drugs haul

USA - (Woodstock Festival)

17:58

Hippy dancing

GV Woodstock Pop Festival

Crowd

Musician

Various crowd shots

SPACE - (Apollo 11 Moon Landing)

18:21Saturn V takes off

CS Astronaut in helmet

CS Astronaut shaving

19:15

Neil Armstrong stepping out on space craft onto Lunar surface (SOF)

Still. Astronaut with American flag

Capsule being rescued from sea (Pacific Ocean)

Astronaut in airlift with helicopter

Astronauts arrive and wave in USA

Astronaut entering decompression chamber

CS Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin

CS Neil Armstrong

CS Michel Collins

(Apollo 12 Moon Landing)

19:59

Richard Gordon Jr., Charles Conrad Jr., Alan Bean (Astronauts)

Lunar surface

Astronaut on Lunar surface

20:41 End Titles

21:00 End

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SHOTLIST:

Lagos, 22 December, 2011

1. Close up of books, tilt up

2. Various of man displaying school books at street stall

3. Pedestrians on busy street

4. Wide of traffic congestion

5. Various of city's poor housing and poor drainage system

Lagos, 20 November, 2011

6. Various close up of books, pan of books at literary fair

Lagos, 23 November, 2011

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Teju Cole, Nigerian-American writer :

"This concept that there is new writing out of Nigeria, the way it has played out thus far as been that, those of us who are leaving in the U.S or U.K in the case of Chika Unigwe in Belgium, seem to have had a bit more of access to those global publishing networks than people who are base at home. But I think that starting to change very quickly also."

8. Various of book display at a book store, UPSOUND : music played by a local band

9. Various of artist Helen Parker-Jayne playing music at a book store

10. Various of books

Lagos, 22 November, 2011

11. Setup of Nigeria-based author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: Nigerian-based author

"There's no place in my town where my parents can by a copy of my book and that is where my book is set, Umuahia and Aba. You can't find a single copy of my book in those part of Nigeria, so we have those issues as well. How am I expected to become a successful author in my country when there are just four cities where my publishers are able to distribute my books?"

13. Various of man buying book by the roadside

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Bayo Adesola: Estate surveyor :

"It's not easy to go to book shop and find the books there because they don't stock old books. But by the roadside you find good books."

15. Woman asking roadside book seller for a particular book

Lagos, 24 November, 2011

16. Various of books displayed at a book fair

Lagos, 22 November, 2011

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Nigerian-based author :

"Anybody who manages to achieve anything in the Nigeria environment is not necessarily the best at what they do, best in terms of ability or talent, or know how, or whatever, skill. It's usually the people who are able to prevail against circumstances that normally will have nothing to do with their field of endeavour. I am a writer, my greatest challenge is not creativity or writers-block or any of the things, my greatest challenge is electricity."

Lagos, 22 December, 2011

18. Central business district, pan to statue of Halbert Macaulay, considered by many Nigerians as the founder of Nigerian nationalism

19. Close up of statue

20. Wide of traffic

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Henry Promise, Voxpop :

"I believe a writer is a writer no matter is location or is orientation in life. I believe strongly that a writer write what he feels and cuts across everything, every facet of society. So if a writer is in America and knows about what happens here in Nigeria and writes very well about it, I'm going to read and I'm going to have my own take on it. So no matter where the writer is, what he writes count.I strongly believe that."

22. Wide of street scene

LEADIN

A new generation of writers in Nigeria are struggling to make their voices heard in print - not just abroad but also at home in their own country.

STORYLINE :

Book distribution is a hit and miss affair in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city.

The chaos of the city is writ large in the nation's literature. One narrator notes "how unpretty" its sprawl looks, with "its unplanned houses sprouting like weeds."

Another author describes the madness of the commute in the city, how six roads meet and "there is no traffic light."

These vivid descriptions come from Nigeria's new generation of authors, whose novels and short stories are gaining acclaim once reserved for post-colonial literary heavyweights such as Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe.

These writers earned the West African nation a reputation as a hub of classic African writing.

But many of the new generation of authors must live abroad to earn a living from their craft.

The international acclaim helps them secure a reputation in Nigeria allowing their books to be published here too.

Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole recently travelled back to Lagos for research after having his New York-based novel "Open City" listed among The New York Times' 100 most influential books for 2011.

He says Nigerian writers living outside the country tend to get greater recognition.

"This concept that there is new writing out of Nigeria, the way it has played out thus far as been that, those of us who are leaving in the U.S or U.K in the case of Chika Unigwe in Belgium, seem to have had a bit more of access to those global publishing networks than people who are base at home. But I think that starting to change very quickly also."

After independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria became one of the continent's top suppliers of literary talent.

Wole Soyinka was honoured with a Nobel Prize for Literature for his plays, essays and books.

While Chinua Achebe received acclaim for his novel "Things Fall Apart" and other writings examining the failures of post-independence politics.

The new generation of Nigerian writers, while examining politics, appear more focused on the feeling of daily life in Nigeria, a multi-ethnic and religious nation of more than 160 (m) million people, where electricity remains scarce and many live below the poverty line.

Those new voices include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose book "Half of a Yellow Sun" focused on the breakaway Republic of Biafra and nation's 1960s civil war that saw one million people killed.

Like Adichie, most of these writers live in the West for much of the year, returning home on research and observation trips.

Their publishers and most of their readers are in the West, industry experts say.

There, African writing has gained major publishers' interest in the last decade, while fiction publishing at home struggles to find its feet.

Nigerian-based authors like Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, whose satirical novel on Nigerian email scammers titled "I Do Not Come to You By Chance" won international attention, first got a foreign literary agent before getting published.

Her novel has been translated into German, a language she doesn't speak.

It sells much better in Germany than it sells in Nigeria.

She says her book is extremely hard to track down in Nigeria.

"There's no place in my town where my parents can by a copy of my book and that is where my book is set, Umuahia and Aba. You can't find a single copy of my book in those part of Nigeria, so we have those issues as well. How am I expected to become a successful author in my country when there are just four cities where my publishers are able to distribute my books?"

For many years, self-publishing was the only hope for Nigerian writers at home to realise their dreams, in a country where a long military era had imposed a publishing lull.

More than a decade since Nigeria returned to civilian rule, only a handful of local publishers will brave the difficult environment to champion fiction writing.

Poor distribution networks and high printing and shipping costs are only some of the setbacks bogging down the local publishing industry, forcing most book lovers to search for novels in the thinly stocked second-hand bookstands that edge busy markets.

When booksellers do sell new books, they tend to prefer religious, educational and self-help books to fiction titles considered slow-selling.

Estate surveyor Bayo Adesola buys his books at roadside stalls.

He says the stalls usually have a better selection.

"It's not easy to go to book shop and find the books there because they don't stock old books. But by the roadside you find good books."

Nigerian-based author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani says she feels she has to battle against the odds to be a writer in Nigeria.

"Anybody who manages to achieve anything in the Nigeria environment is not necessarily the best at what they do, best in terms of ability or talent, or know how, or whatever, skill. It's usually the people who are able to prevail against circumstances that normally will have nothing to do with their field of endeavour. I am a writer, my greatest challenge is not creativity or writers-block or any of the things, my greatest challenge is electricity."

Lagos resident Henry Promise says location makes no difference to whether someone can succeed as a writer or not.

"I believe a writer is a writer no matter is location or is orientation in life. I believe strongly that a writer write what he feels and cuts across everything, every facet of society. So if a writer is in America and knows about what happens here in Nigeria and writes very well about it, I'm going to read and I'm going to have my own take on it. So no matter where the writer is, what he writes count.I strongly believe that."

A few Nigerian publishers have turned to Amazon and Kindle to sidestep local challenges and reach out to broader reading audiences.