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SYN 25 11 80 REFUGEES IN ARCHBISHOPRY AFTER COMMANDO ATTACKS
Refugees in the archbishopry after commando force's attack which destroyed printing press used by the church's weekly paper.
1. vs children and adult refugees
2. vs babies
3. ms little girl and her mother
4. ms group of refugees
5. ws...
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UNUSED 20 9 80 AFTERMATH OF ATTACK ON US EMBASSY IN SAN SALVADOR
Around midday, Tuesday 18th December, 2 shells were fired at the US Embassy building in San Salvador, making it the third attack in the last year. Witnesses say the attack was launched from a lorry, parked over the road. The attack, came...
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SYND 5 4 80 MLP GUERRILAS PATROL EXERCISE IN MOUNTAINS
Movement Of Popular Liberation (MLP) guerrilas patrol in mountains
1. gv armed MLP guerrilas including some women, on patrol in mountains, their faces covered with bandanas
2. cu woman passes with sawn off shotgun
3. various shots, armed...
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SYND 13 5 79 FRENCH EMBASSY SCENES AND FUNERAL POLICE VICTIMS AT CATHEDRAL
The continuing siege at the French embasy in San Salvador and troops on guard and red Cross negotiators. The funerals of the people shot earlier.
1. vs exterior embassy and Red Cross men
2. ms guards around embassy and Red Cross team
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SYND 10 8 80 RED CROSS DISTRIBUTES FOOD TO OUTLAYING VILLAGES IN EL SALVADOR
The continuing internal violence has resulted in food shortages for outlying villagers, supplies to whom have been disrupted by daily shootings and bombings. Local Red Cross officials are managing to distribute food to these...
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UPITN 7/2/80 LEFTISTS IN SAN SALVADOR OCCUPY CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS HEADQUARTERS
Leftists of the LP-28 movement in San Salvador occupy the Christian Democratic Party headquarters.
1. ws exterior building draped with large red banners
2. ms and zoom to leftists occupying building
3. ms leftists with loud hailer shout...
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SYND 22 3 80 JUNTA MILITARY OFFICIAL MAJANO GIVES PRESS CONFERENCE
The civilian and military junta in El Salvador call a news conference to defend their policies, in particular the giving of tracts of land to the peasants. This policy has been attacked by the left-wingers as being merely "cosmetic" and...
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UNUSED 17 7 80 FUNERAL OF LA CRONICA'S EDITOR JAIME SUAREZ
Views of the discovery of the bodies of opposition newspaper La Cronica's editor in chief, Jaime Suarez who was seized, along with a photographer Cesar Najarro, in a downtown coffee shop. Followed by scenes of their joint funeral.
1. ms...
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UPITN 14 4 80 NEW ARCHBISHOP OF SAN SALVADOR, ARTURO RIVERA Y DAMAS, APPOINTED
New Archbishop of San Salvador, Arturo Rivera y Damas, appointed
1. ms clergymen during the ceremony
2. ms Damas speaking
3. ms clergymen singing during the mass
4. ms Bishops at the mass
5. ms nuns singing
6. gv priests singing
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UNUSED 20 8 80 PUNK BAND AND RESTAURANT FIRE IN SAN SALVADOR
La Carreta restaurant still smoulders after being set on fire by armed men. However, to prove that life does continue as normal amid all the death in San Salvador, a punk band plays to a receptive audience.
1. ws fire truck, pan to...
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UNUSED 20/9/80 AFTERMATH OF MISSILE ATTACK ON US EMBASSY
Left wing guerrillas, angered by US support of the brutal tactics of the right-wing El Salvador military junta fired two anti-tank missiles into the American Embassy in San Salvador. A little after the attack four bombs containing...
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UNUSED 18 6 80 LEFTIST GUERRILLAS TRAINING AND EL MUNDO INTERVIEW
Leftist and rightist groups in El Salvador are still battling for supremacy over the ruling civilian-military junta. The country has for several months been teetering on the edge of civil war. According to "El Mundo", the leader of the...
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Tragedy:
Violent earthquake spells disaster in San Salvador. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical accuracy and do...
British Movietone
SALVADOR TRAGEDY
The most violent and disastrous earthquake in the history of Central America's smallest republic, Salvador, resulted in tragic loss of life. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
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CUTS 21 8 81 TERRORISTS CAUSE BLACKOUT AND TRAFFIC CHAOS
Traffic and industry come to a halt in a 24-hour blackout caused by terrorist attack on 5 high voltage electric pylons around the city.
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1. vs people hand pumping petrol at garage
2. vs traffic jams
3. vs...
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El Salvador/Guatemala - Floods caused by Tropical Storm Agatha kills at least 99
WRAP Trop Storm Agatha kills at least 99 in Central America
Garita Palmera, El Salvador - 30 May 2010
1. Vast areas flooded by River Paz
2. Civil defence volunteers and officials using ropes to help people to get onto dry land
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SYND 10 8 81 CELEBRATION OF EL DIVINO SALVADOR
President Jose Napoleon Duarte and Mayor and acting Archbishop Arturo Rivera Y Damas, join thousands of people in a procession celebrating the religious holiday of El Divino Salvador - protector of the country - whose statue is...
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CUTS 14 7 80 REFUGEES FROM MURDER SQUADS IN CHURCH COMPOUND
In San Salvador a bomb exploded in a Union building, killing one man. Meanwhile peasants have become refugees from the security forces and camp out in a church compound for safety.
1. vs Union building, debris and damage to interior
2. ...
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GS 17 2 82 ARMY CONSTRUCT TEMPORARY BRIDGE
El Salvador army construct temporary bridge over river
1. crane lifts iron girder sections of bridge
2. ms girders lowered, workmen guide them down
3. close pan across bridge framework
4. cu guard
5. ms workers deliver section to bridge...
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SYND 17 3 80 SAN SALVADOR SHOOTING
To escape repression in the countryside, peasants are streaming into the capital city of San Salvador from their farms. But the capital is not safe either. A newspaper suffered a bomb attack this week, presumably because of its left-wing...
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SYND 15 8 80 LEFT WING GUERILLAS HIDE OUT IN MOUNTAINS
The mountains outside San Salvador hide a multitude of leftist guerrilla hideouts from which armed groups of milltants range to attack both government and rightist forces
1. various shots, left wing guerrillas patrol through bush
2. ...
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SYND 18 7 81 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS
National Guard troops march into Cinquera to relieve refugees who have been under constant siege. Work crews follow the army to clear barricades and trenches.
1. vs National Guard troops marching into village of Cinquera
2. vs residents...
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CUTS 5 9 80 LEFTISTS BURN CAR DEALER'S PREMISES IN SAN SALVADOR
Leftist militants in a San Salvador suburb attacked a car dealer's premises firing shots and burning some 30 new cars including Volkswagens and other makes.
1. ws and pan across lines of completely burnt out cars
2. various ws fire...
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GS 16 09 81 ARMY PATROL SHOOT OUT
Salvador army troops on patrol have shoot out in jungle area.
1. vs soldiers walking cautiously through jungle area
2. vs soldiers fire rifles from behind trees and laying low in long grass
3. vs soldiers continue walking through jungle...