Ban-Bomb 800 Jailed (1961)

People forming a protest against the atomic bomb. Blocking the ways to the lab and testing area. About 800 people were arrested. Full title reads: “Brize Norton. Ban-Bomb 800 Jailed“. Brize Norton RAF Station, Oxfordshire. VS of Anti-Nuclear demonstration. CU Sign ’Sit For A Sane World“. Various shots of protesters sitting down in road outside base. CU Sign: Wethersfield - USAF Base. GV Ban the Bomb demonstrators in road. GV Pan, helicopter flying over the sitters. SV Elderly lady knitting. GV The sitters. SV Youth lying in the road reading. CU Journalist Randolph Churchill talking to another man. GV The sitters as police try to clear them from the road onto the grass bank. SV Red Cross vehicle coming along the road, camera pans to show policemen lifting girl and then pushing her into other demonstrators. SV Police pushing and lifting demonstrators onto other demonstrators. SV Red Cross ambulance coming towards camera. SV as the RAF (Royal Air Force) security guards move the barbed wire which crosse
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