Suez in Perspective, Short Movie, 1957

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1952 ARE AMX-13/75 Modèle 51

Austin FV1801A 'Champ'

1952 Austin K9

Bedford QLT

1953 Bedford RL

1937 Chevrolet Master

Chrysler M47 'Patton'

Daimler Armoured Car MkI

Dodge Power Wagon

1949 Fargo F-1-B

1954 Fiat 1400 A

FMC LVT-4

Ford F60 L CMP

GMC CCKW

1943 GMC CCKW 353

1949 GMC HC-Series

1947 GMC New Design

International Harvester M5 A1 Halftrack

1953 Land-Rover 86'' Series I

1940 Loyd Carrier

Mercedes-Benz O 321 H

1940 Morris Series Y 10cwt Van

1954 Opel Kapitän

1951 Peugeot 203 Familiale

Praga RM-51 MLRS

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1955 UZTM SU-100

1955 Willys Jeep Station Wagon

Willys MB 'Jeep'

1955 ZiL BTR-152 V

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dsl ◊ 2017-01-27 00:49	18-minute British propaganda film about Suez Crisis and attack on Port Said. Included on COI Collection Volume 3: They Stand Ready. Can be seen here or here (poor quality). Very defensive commentary and clearly designed to convince its audience that British actions were taken for the greater good, but has an undertone of desperately trying to rewrite what actually happened. A directly contrasting message to /movie.php?id=1004517872 which is equally polarised in the opposite direction and clumsily presented, but when watching both together it is fairly clear that this film avoids many issues and events during this crisis. I also found it interesting as a historical account - however biased - of these events because amongst other things of the after-effects it had on British car industry into the 1960s era which I grew up in. Almost every history of small UK cars (eg Mini, Imp, 1100, Herald, Cortina etc) emphasises how Suez Crisis and canal closure was a severe shock to petrol supplies, so Government and manufacturers prioritised developing new fuel-efficient and/or economical designs in case there was a future similar episode, and bloated heavy design traditions with loads of unnecessary weight became extinct. A few rejects: - Palestine - Egypt/Port Said UK phonebox in Palestine
dsl ◊ 2017-01-27 01:22	Seems to be some overlap with episode 8 of End of Empire (1985 documentary) with similar footage, although not exact duplicates of pages.
dsl ◊ 2017-01-27 03:26	Lots of planes for impdb - unsorted, simply shown in onscreen sequence. Likely to include external archive sources.
electra225 ◊ 2017-01-27 11:02	dsl, it is really nice to see how you are keen at both cars and history.
dsl ◊ 2017-01-27 22:56	electra225 wrote dsl, it is really nice to see how you are keen at both cars and history. I find these documentaries fascinating because they often explain things I've heard of or grown up with, but never properly understood. I think Suez Crisis was also important because Britain suddenly looked really stupid and incompetent in the Global Superpower Rivalry League (perhaps for the first time??) and the rest of the world realised we were no longer title contenders. In some ways we still haven't come to terms with that 60 years later ....
sixcyl ◊ 2018-01-06 17:12	Don't forget the equal importance roles of France and Israel in this historical episode
dsl ◊ 2018-01-06 17:29	^ Accepted. But the film is unbalanced - only the British perspective presented for British audiences, without a wider context.
Corkeyandpals ◊ 2018-11-19 05:14	Aircraft at: http://impdb.org/index.php?title=Suez_in_Perspective

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