Salisbury Scenes (1965)

Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Several shots of the scenes in the main streets of Salisbury at busy time of a day. Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia and Britain’s Prime Minister Harold Wilson leaving a building - they are meeting to discuss the future of Rhodesia. Black people demonstrating on the streets. More street scenes - Salisbury. News vendor with ’Smith’s Speech to Nation’ on the bill sign is seen. People buying and reading newspapers in the street. MS. Statue of Cecil Rhodes in Salisbury. More shots of the people on streets, in parks, around open air swimming pool, nice modern buildings, traffic passing etc. Various shots of a street market in what looks like poorer section of the town where black people live. (Orig. Neg.) Date found in the old record - 14/11/1965. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIE
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