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The Suez Crisis. British forces prepare to engage Egypt.

Suez crisis. Ships at port in Great Bitter Lake, Suez Canal, Egypt. Aerial views of region. boats maneuver around two sunken ships. British Landing craft grouped at port. British troops in full battle gear, march at port. Other British soldiers sort out artillery pieces and load munitions on trucks. Egyptian men mill about in street where two soldiers are seen. Aerial view of ships moving in canal.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035434
Dag Hammarskjold boards an aircraft for Cairo and UN Forces in Egypt during the Suez Crisis.

Events during the Suez Crisis in Egypt. Officials and delegates at an airport. UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold boards an aircraft for Cairo. Ruins and debris of bombed buildings on a street. A building burning. A man on a cart carries two dead men. Several views of the dead people lying on a street. The troops walk on a street. The tanks roll down a street. People crowd on either side of the street. Commander of the UN (United Nation) Forces Canadian General Eedson Louis Millard Burns gets off from an aircraft. The UN troops drive in a jeep. The sunken ships in Suez Canal. A donkey drawn cart and men move towards the canal.

Date: 1956, November 15
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069737
British and French troops patrol streets with tanks in Egypt during the Suez Crisis.

European troops in Egypt during the Suez Crisis. European tanks patrol the streets of Egypt. Egyptian prisoners are held. Troops stand outside small huts. British and French soldiers in a field with smoke rising in the background. A soldier watches from the roof of a building.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064687
British and French troops patrol streets in Egypt during the Suez Crisis.

European troops in Egypt during the Suez Crisis. European tanks patrol the streets of Egypt. Military officers in jeeps. European ships in a harbor. Soldiers with a picture of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. British and French officers look at a map and converse with each other. The soldiers patrol a street with smoke in the background.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064688
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies at conference to persuade President Nasser of Egypt, to accept international control of Suez Canal

President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt enters building in Cairo, for 5 nation talks regarding control of the Suez Canal during the Suez Crisis. Egyptian officials follow President Nasser. Prime Minister of Australia Sir Robert Gordon Menzies climbs stairs to the building, followed by officials. Other delegates arrive for the conference and are all escorted inside. President Nasser and Prime Minister Menzies stand in hall and converse. They shake hands. Other delegates file into the hall. Prime Minister Menzies seen leaving the conference, followed by phalanx of reporters.

Date: 1956, September 3
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056024
Egyptian army sets up defenses in Cairo during the Suez crisis of 1956

Egyptian soldiers take up positions to protect Cairo, during the Suez crisis of 1956. In opening scene, a soldier, is seen standing next to a jeep. Camera pans up to cinema marquee advertising an American movie: "Crime in the Streets." Soldiers positioned, at steel barriers in the street, monitor passing traffic which includes civilian cars and military jeeps. Camera in moving vehicle focuses on a jeep passing a heavy armored car parked at a street corner. Camera vehicle drives up close past the armored car, as it follows jeep carrying soldiers. View from side of street, as two jeeps drive past carrying soldiers. Camera focuses on one as it passes a gasoline station, with no activity at its pumps. The jeep continues past a tank at an intersection, with soldiers standing guard. The jeep continues into a more residential section, passing road barriers and a man and woman with some children, crossing the street, near troops at a fortified position on the corner. large portions of the street are obstructed by steel barriers, which the jeep must maneuver past. It passes several parked civilian cars. The next scene shows fortified position of civilian militia. Several militia members pose for the camera, pointing rifles from behind heavily sandbagged positions. Camera view from immediately behind one shows the road completely closed by steel barriers. View from behind another militia man who is looking through binoculars. Scene changes altogether to soldiers escorting civilian prisoners into a building for interrogation. Inside, a man shows pieces of a torn photograph to two men and asks them about the person shown in them. Unhappy with their responses, he slaps one of them during the questioning.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039885