- Title: VM-579B
- Summary: THE MAN IN THE BLUE HELMET: STORY LOOKS AT THE HISTORY OF UNITED NATIONS PEACE KEEPING FORCES.
- Description:00:02:30 - JULY 1960, CITIZENS CELEBRATING CONGO INDEPENDENCE 00:03:08 - POLICEMEN ARRESTING CONGOLESE DURING PROTEST MS ARMED UNITED NATIONS PEACE KEEPING GUARDS 00:05:15 - CU FINGER POINTING ON MAP TO THE MIDDLE EAST 00:05:16 - HS PAN PORT SAID, SUEZ CANAL 00:05:29 - OCTOBER, 1956, EGYPT UNDER ATTACK BY ISRAELI, FRENCH & BRITISH FORCES. SINKING BATTLESHIPS 00:05:46 - UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, CANADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MAKING HISTORIC SUGGESTION TO CREATE UNITED NATIONS ARMY 00:07:30 - CU ROAD SIGN READING PORT SAID IN ENGLISH & ARABIC. TILTS UP TO UN ARMY TRUCKS MOVING IN POV IN TRUCK PASSING CITIZENS, LANDSCAPES 00:08:00 - GENERAL E L M BURNS & OTHER OFFICERS MEETING IN PORT SAID & SPEAKING IN STUDIO, COMMANDER OF UN FORCE AT ITS INCEPTION, 1956 00:10:59 - LOW ANGLE UN GUARD ATOP TOWER, POV DRIVING DOWN PORT SAID ? STREETS. MS UN GUARD STOPPING CARS AT UNICEF MAINTENANCE AREA 00:11:30 - CU PAN DEMARKATION LINE, CROPS GROWING ON ONE SIDE, UN TROOPS PATROLLING ONE THE OTHER 00:11:46 - ROCKET GOING OFF IN WAR ZONE, SOLDIERS RUN FOR COVER, PLAYING IT SAFE. TWO BEDOUINS CROSSED THE LINE INADVERTENTLY. NOMADIC ARABS 00:12:24 - LS PAN GAZA STRIP, UN GUARDS ON WATCH DUTY GUARD LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS. CU UN GUARD 00:12:39 - OUTPOST GUARD SPOTS SHEPHERD & HIS FLOCK WANDERING THROUGH UN ZONE, MS SOLDIER TALKING INTO RADIO, MS ARMED SOLDIERS RUNNING THROUGH GAZA STRIP, MS WOMAN HIDDEN BY VEIL. MS SHEEP WALKING UP HILL 00:13:16 - MONTAGE U N SENTRIES, GUARD LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS, GUARD ON RADIO, GENERAL BURNES SPEAKING 00:14:17 - MS FINGER POINTING TO MIDDLE EAST ON MAP 00:14:34 - 1960, UNITED NATIONS PEACE KEEPING FORCES ON ROUTE TO THE CONGO. 00:14:52 - STILLS 00:15:18 - IRISH UN PEACE KEEPING TROOPS MARCHING IN DUBLIN WEEPING MOTHER SADLY SAYS GOODBYE TO SON. MS IRISH BOYS WATCHING IRISH SOLDIERS LEAVING FOR FOREIGN SOIL FOR FIRST TIME EVER. NEUTRAL COUNTRY MS IRISH FAMILIES WAVING GOODBYE. MS IRISH SOLDIERS BOARDING AER LINGUS PLANE. 00:16:17 - CU IRISH CHILDREN, ADULTS WAVING GOODBYE 00:16:23 - POV FLYING IN THE CLOUDS OVER IRELAND 00:16:31 - BIRDS SEAGULLS FLYING SOARING 00:16:39 - STREETS OF KATANGA FILLED WITH CONGO ARMY REBELS, U N TROOPS ARRIVING IN THE CONGO. BELGIAN TROOPS ARRIVING. CHAOS IN THE STREETS. 00:18:01 - LS UN GUARDS ATOP BUILDING ROOF 00:18:06 - UN SOLDIERS LAYING BARBED WIRE BARRIER 00:18:12 - INTERIOR AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER 00:18:17 - CU CONGOLESE WORKER PAINTING AIRPLANE BODY WITH A SPRAY GUN. MS SPRAY PAINTING OVER THE WORDS U S AIR FORCE ON AIRPLANE 00:18:25 - CU BARBED WIRE FENCE BARRIER 00:18:34 - URBAN CONGO LIFESTYLE. KATANGA CITY STREETS BUSY WITH PEDESTRIANS. MS WOMAN CARRYING SEWING MACHINE ON TOP OF HER HEAD. MS UN SOLDIER LOOKING OVER SMALL WOODEN STATUES LOCAL STREET VENDOR IS SELLING. MS MOTHER WITH BABY ON HER BACK WINDOW SHOPPING, SHOE STORE. 00:19:12 - MONTAGE UN GUARDS ON PATROL, IN THE STREETS, AT BORDER, LS ARMED GUARD PACING BACK & FORTH IN FRONT OF MAYBE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE. 00:19:36 - MS FINGER POINTING TO GONGO & THE MIDDLE EAST ON A MAP 00:20:53 - MS UN TUNESIAN SOLDIER POURING COFFEE FROM ONE TIN CUP INTO OTHER SOLDIER'S CUPS. SHARING RATIONS, SHARING FOOD. 00:21:09 - LS TUNESIAN UN SOLDIERS ON FOOD LINE OUTDOOR MESS HALL, EATING TUNESIAN TRADITIONAL COUS COUS WHEAT CEREAL, SMOKING CIGARETTES AFTER EATING. 00:21:23 - MS LINE OF TUNESIAN SOLDIERS SIGNING UP & RECEIVING PAY FOR DUTY 00:21:44 - TRIO OF UN SOLDIERS WALKING AWAY FROM CAMERA 00:21:51 - IRISH UN TROOPS NEAR UGANDA BORDER, NATIONAL ALBERT PARK. LS PAN HUTS NEAR UGANDA BORDER 00:22:04 - SMALL AFRICAN VILLAGE, GRASS THATCHED HUTS. UN SOLDIERS HANDING OUT TREATS TO CHILDREN TRYING TO COMMUNICATE IN THEIR NATIVE TONGUE. CU HAPPY CHILDREN LAUGHING 00:22:21 - HS IRISH UN SOLDIERS ON PATROL 00:22:26 - MS IRISH UN SOLDIER GIVING SMALL BOY BINOCULARS TO LOOK AT WILD LIFE, BIRDS, GULLS, HIPPOPOTAMUS, HIPPOS IN THE RIVER 00:22:48 - HUGE ELEPHANT CHARGES, SOLDIER & CHILDREN RUN AWAY FROM ELEPHANT, CHILDREN FALLING IN GRASS 00:22:57 - TUNESIAN SOLDIERS ARRIVING AT CARD GAME, LOCALS GAMBLING STREET BETTING PLAYING THREE CARD MONTY 00:23:34 - CU HANDS CLAPPING IN TIME, KEEPING RHYTHM OF CHILDREN SINGING & CLAPPING. UN SOLDIERS CLAPPING WITH THE CHILDREN 00:24:15 - SOLDIER WALKS TOWARD OTHERS WAVING LETTERS, SOLDIERS RUNNING TO GET THEIR MAIL, MS MAIL BEING HANDED OUT. MS SOLDIERS READING MAIL LETTERS FROM HOME, SOLDIER OPENING LETTER WITH PHOTOGRAPHS FROM HOME 00 24 9 CU SOLDIER WRITING LETTER HOME 00:24:48 - SOLDIERS RELAXING, LISTENING TO PORTABLE RADIO MS SOLDIER TUNING IN RADIO. 00:25:06 - CATHOLIC SOLDIERS GENUFLECTING IN WORSHIP, PRAYER LED BY PRIEST. RELIGIOUS CEREMONY 00:25:25 - TRIO OF SOLDIER PAYING RESPECTS TO DEAD SOLDIERS MOMENT OF SILENCE IN FRONT OF GRAVE 00:26:42 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-579B