Curated Video
SYND 25 1 76 AFRICAN LEADERS ARRIVE FOR ANNIVERSARY OF AMIN'S PRESIDENCY
Arrival of president Mobutu of Zaire and President William R. Tolbert, Jr. of Liberia for celebrations to mark the fifth anniversary, of Idi Amin coming to power.
1. Entebbe airport sign
2. ms Amin greets Mobuto
3. ms Mobutu and Amin...
Curated Video
CAN210 CONGOLESE ARMY CHIEF MOBUTO VISITS TROOPS LEARING TO PARACHUTE IN TRAINING SCHOOL
Congolese army chief Mobuto visits paratroops training school in Germany.
1. ms Mobutu steps out of car and is greeted by military officials
2. vs Mobutu watches paras training
3. ms paratrooper is smacked on the bottom to signal him to...
Curated Video
SYND 04/02/80 HUMAN HIGHTS SYMPOSIUM
Symposium of Human Rights held in Kinshasa
1. gv exterior conference building
2. interior conference, delegates seated, listening
3. ms spokesman makes speech (mute)
4. various cutaways of delegates listening
5. speech continues...
Curated Video
SYND 9 10 76 PRESIDENT MOBUTU OF ZAIRE ARRIVING TO DAKAR FOR A VISIT TO SENEGAL
Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko arriving to Dakar for a visit to Senegal and is greeted by President Leopold Sedar Senghor.
1. gv plane
2. ms Senghor and dignitaries on tarmac
3. various of Mobutu down plane steps and greeted by...
Curated Video
SYND 4 6 78 FUNERAL IN CORSICA OF 5 FRENCH LEGIONNAIRES KILLED IN ZAIRE
Funeral ceremony and memorial service held on Corsica at the headquarters of the French Foreign Legion, for the five Legionnaires killed during the intervention in Zaire's Shaba province
1. ws priest at service
2. ws troops in lines
3....
Curated Video
SYND 11 6 77 PRESIDENT MOBUTU ARRIVES IN SENEGAL
President Mobutu of Zaire arriving on his visit of Senegal & greeted by President Leopold Senghor
1. ls President of Zaire, Mobutu & his wife down plane steps2. ms Senghor & wife wait on tarmac3. cutaway to wives of...
Curated Video
SYND 30 6 67 GOVERNEMNT ACCUSES EUROPEANS SABOTAGE
Five Europeans accused of sabotaging a bridge near Katanga, were presented to the members of the press by the Congolese government.
1. ws exterior information communications building, television and radio centre
2. ws five accused led in...
Curated Video
SYND 7 11 71 SADAT AND FOUR VISITING AFRICAN PRESIDENTS ARRIVE AT CAIRO HOTEL FOR A CONFERENCE
Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and four visiting African Presidents (President of Nigeria Yakubu Gowon, President of Senegal Leopold Senghor, President of Cameroon Ahmadou Ahidjo and President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko) arrive at the...
Curated Video
SYND 21 5 78 PRESIDENT MOBUTO VISITS KOWAZI
As French Foreign Legion Paratroopers mopped the last pockets of resistance by invaders of the southern Zaire town of Kolwezi, President Mobutu Sese Seko paid his second flying visit to stricken province of Shaba in three days. Last...
Curated Video
SYND 22 3 77 PRESIDENT MOBUTO VISITS SHABA PROVINCE
President Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire visits Shaba Province
1. vs of crowds and security around the area2. vs of Mobuto coming off helicopter and inspecting guard of honour3. vs of supplies being loaded onto trucks4. vs of aircraft being...
Curated Video
SYND 22 4 77 MOROCCAN TROOPS PREPARING FOR ACTION IN SHABA PROVINCE IN ZAIRE
Moroccan troops assembling in sports ground, loading trucks and setting off in convoy with armed vehicles in Shaba Province in Zaire.
1. ms officers meeting
2. ms helicopter
3. ms officers talking
4. various of soldiers preparing for...
Curated Video
UPITN 18 1 72 MEETING BETWEEN PRESIDENTS OF CHAD AND CONGO
Meeting between presidents of Chad Francois Tombalbaye and Congo Mobutu Sese Seko
1 exterior of building
2 interior as presidents of Chad Francois Tombalbaye and Congo Mobutu Sese Seko sit and talk
3 flags of Chad and Congo
4 presidents...
Curated Video
CAN547 FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE, CELEBRATIONS IN LEOPOLDVILLE
Congo celebrates fifth year of independence with a parade presided over by President Joseph Kasavubu, Prime Minister Moise Tshombe, and vice-president Mobutu Sese Seko.
1. ws of cycle motor parade
2. ws Kasavubu arrives, standing in...
Curated Video
UPITN 5 7 73 ZAIRE'S PRESIDENT MOBUTU OPENS A TRADE FAIR IN KINSHASA
President of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko opens the Trade Fair in Kinshasa.
1. cu Union Jack, zoom out to show flags of various countries on poles
2. mcu US flag, tilt down to pavilion
3. gv American cars on display on field outside the...
Curated Video
SYND 6 6 78 COMMUNIST DEMONSTRATION AGAINST FRENCH IN AFRICA
As five western countries met in Paris to discuss ways of aiding Zaire overcome its problems, several thousand people took to the streets at the behest of the French Communist Party, led by Georges Marchaisin a march from the place de la...
Curated Video
SYND 19 5 78 FIRST CONTINGENT OF FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION PARATROOPERS ARRIVE AT KINSHASA
The first contingent of French Foreign Legion Paratroopers arrived at Kinshasa airport Friday at the start of an international effort to rescue whites trapped in rebel- occupied parts of Zaire's Shaba province. Wearing green berets and...
Curated Video
SYND 17 6 78 MOROCCAN TROOPS ARRIVE IN ZAIRE AS FRENCH PARATROOPERS LEAVE
The last two American C-141 transport planes in a two-week air shuttle to and from Zaire flew out of Lubumbashi Airport in Zaire's troubled Shaba Province on Friday (June 16). The final flights, manned by US Air Force crews, took with...
Curated Video
Aerials of lava flowing through city and into Lake Kivu
1. Rebel soldiers with commander (yellow shirt) walking towards camera
2. Rebel soldiers walking across tarmac
3. Rebel soldiers around helicopter before taking off to survey damage
3. Aerial view of Goma with lava flow cutting across...
Curated Video
SYND 19 1 79 LI XIANNIAN MEETS ZAIRE PRIME MINISTER MPINGA KASENDA
chinese deputy prime minister Li Xiannian was in Zaire with A delegation, to meet prime minister mpinga Kasenda at airport inspects guard of honor & greets vip 's from kinshasa & chinese embassy.
1. ws arrival of Li with plane in...
Curated Video
SYND 16 4 77 MOROCCAN TROOPS ARE PREPARING FOR ACTION IN KOLWEZI, ZAIRE.
Moroccan troops are preparing for action in Kolwezi, Zaire.
1. various of troops gathered and loading arms and equipment onto trucks
2. various of troops getting onto trucks and into Jeeps
3. various of military convoy on the way
Film:...
Curated Video
SYND 12 9 67 CONFERENCE OF THE ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY
African leaders arrive in Kinshasa for an Organisation of African Unity (OAU) conference. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, Joseph Mobutu President of Congo, Sangoule Lamizana President of Upper Volta are in attendance.
1. ws delegates...
Curated Video
UPITN 29 11 75 TENTH ANNIVERSARY PARADE
The Republic of Zaire celebrates the tenth anniversary following the revolution celebrations include a parade through the streets of the capital
1 military parade as ambulances, Land Rovers, machine gunners, field guns, APCs and tanks...
Curated Video
SYND 21 5 78 MASSACRE OF 34 WHITE CIVILIANS AT KOLWEZI
Rebel Katangan forces massacred more than 150 Europeans and hundreds of Africans during their occupation of the Zairean mining town of Kolwezi. In the worst incident during the massacres 34 men, women and children were herded into a...
Curated Video
SYND 3 7 67 PRESIDENT MOBUTU ATTENDS INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS
President Mobuto Sese Seko takes salute at a parade to mark the seventh anniversary of Congolese independence
1. various shots, President Mobuto Sese Seko of the Congo, in motorcade, salutes from the back of open top car, through crowd...