NIGERIA: 12 MONTHS OF RECOVERY IN THE FORMER WAR ZONE.

Record ID: 1079563

  • Title: NIGERIA: 12 MONTHS OF RECOVERY IN THE FORMER WAR ZONE.
  • Date: 10th January 1970
  • Summary: 1. TGV Lagos street scene 0.05 2. CU Sign "Supreme Headquarters" 0.08 3. GV Headquarters 0.11 4. CU General Gowon speaks (SOUND ON FILM) 0.42 5. SV Goods loaded onto helicopter 0.43 6. SV Goods loaded onto lorry 0.50 7. CU Boxes loaded onto helicopter 0.54 8. SV Helicopter takes off 1.07 9. SV People wait at feeding centre, ZOOM in to "Rehabilitation Commission" sign 1.12 10. SV Helicopter lands 1.18 11. LV People around PAN to another helicopter 1.23 12. TV Officials and crowd onto bridge 1.28 13. SV Femi Okunu walks up to ribbon and cuts it 1.38 14. TV PAN..to bridge traffic over bridge 1.44 15. GV Market scene, man selling yams, CU of stallholder, and CU..woman pays for goods (3 shots) 1.58 16. GV Tracking shot..cars in queue 2.08 17. SV Troops marching 2.14 18. SV PAN..Burnt-out buildings 2.18 19. SV PAN..Sign "Loan scheme for businessmen" 2.22 20. GV PAN..up wrecked building 2.26 21. GV Entrance to Port Harcourt Harbour 2.30 22. GV Ships in harbour with timber on trucks in F/G. 3.05 23. GV Ship in harbour 2.42 24. SV Workers unloading cement and into lorry (3 shots) 2.54 25. CU Sign "MGBIDI" welfare centre 2.59 26. GV Children playing (4 shots) 3.24 27. SV Rhena Schweitzer walking with children 3.34 28. GV Launch carrying General Gowon arrives at quayside in Yenagoa 3.39 29. SV General Gowon and Chiefs of Staff on boat 3.42 30. SV Troops with brengun 3.45 31. LV General Gowon and military governor leave launch and go aboard landing craft 3.58 32. SV River war dancers in canoe 4.05 33. SV General Gowon and party up steps 4.12 34. SV Yenagoa chiefs shake hands with General Gowon 4.19 35. CU Gowon presented with baby crocodile 4.27 36. SV Pressmen 4.30 37. CU Gowon quickly places crocodile on ground (2 shots) 4.38 38. SV Tribal dancers (2 shots) 4.48 39. SCU PAN..Tribal dancers - PAN to General Gowon and party 4.57 40. GV Dancing 5.04 41. CU General Gowon departs waving to crowds 5.12 SOUND STARTS: "We have fought..." SOUND ENDS: "...keep this country one". TRANSCRIPT: SEQ 4: General Gowon (accepting the secessionists' surrender): We have fought a long, bitter battle and it has ended in a victory for common sense, victory for the unity of the country. And we have got cause to thank all people of this country for what they have done to help to keep this country one." Initials JMR/ML/PS/I530 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th January 1970 13:00
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  • Location: VARIOUS, NIGERIA
  • Country: Nigeria
  • Reuters ID: LVAWD7CDVUCIEL242IPGYCXGZ54
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