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"PACIFIC FLEET DIARY" (radical Japanese students demonstrate in Tokyo) 1) CU Japanese riot police preparing to meet the student demonstrators; PAN off to the right showing the riot police being briefed by their superior. G to F 2) CU Some of the riot police; PAN to the left with many of the police in ranks wearing dark helmets which protect their necks. 3) CU Riot police making preparation, some of them have shields. 4) CU PAN to the right along the front rank of the riot police; PAN continues off to the right showing what appears to be a bridge off to the right 5) CU Looking through barbed wire to bridge in the DBG, this is near the Sasebo main gate, vehicles seen in motion in the FBG. G 6) NMS Coiled barbed wire with the bridge in the DBG. 7) MS Riot police; PAN off to the right to many more riot police, many of them with shields. 8) CU Three policemen with the metal shields standing before them. VG 9) MCU Riot police making preparation for the demonstration, a tall flat metal shield is fitted on the front of a forklift, it's for protection for the driver. 10) MS Forklift with the armored front moving out, riot FG looking on; vehicle comes to a stop in the BG. G 11) MS Fire trucks spraying water on the demonstrators, unsteady scene. 12) MS Mass of police, red flag is being held beyond the student demonstrators. 13) MS Fire trucks spraying water over the heads of the police on to the demonstrators; PAN to the left to some of the vehicles, members of the press up on top of a truck; PAN back off to the right showing the mass of riot policemen. G 14) HA MLS Looking across the bridge area, demonstrators making attempted dash across the bridge; PAN off to the left showing two fire trucks spraying water on the bridge area, bridge blocked off on the near side. 15) HA-MS Demonstrators dancing around in a circle; swish PAN off to the left to the riot police blocking the bridge, police begin moving onto the bridge area forming a line; PAN back to the right to the demonstrators dancing in the center of the bridge. G 16) HA-MS Demonstrators marching towards the police and tuning back as the firemen begin spraying water on the demonstrators who again move back down the bridge area; large mass of people is seen in the FBG; PAN off to the left to the fire truck. VG 17) HA-MS Demonstrators again advancing across the bridge many of them wearing blue helmets, demonstrators start snake dancing; PAN back to the left to the riot police; PAN back off to the right, to the demonstrators, they begin forming in the center of the bridge nearing the police as they continue snake dancing. 18) HA-LS Demonstrators doing the snake dance in the center of the bridge, riot police in the FG watching the bridge area, trying to keep the demonstrators from crossing; demonstrators are getting ready to charge the police. G 19) MS Japanese riot police running off to the right past the camera, fire trucks and other vehicles are parked in the BG; men are seen up in metal like cages upon trucks. 20) MS Mass of riot police, fire hoses played over the heads of the police on over to the demonstrators; PAN off to the left of fire truck spraying the water on the demonstrators. VG 21) CU Some of the spectators and the officials looking down over the bridge in the BG, demonstrators are seen on the far side of the bridge. G 22) LA-MS Demonstrators, some carrying red flags, doing the snake dance in the center of the bridge, some people are seen in the far side of the bridge looking on, PAN to the right along the bridge. 23) MS Side view of the bridge some of the demonstrators dancing in the center area of the bridge, some of the water seen in the lower FG. G 24) MS Two riot police, one with a gas grenade in his hand getting ready to toss the grenade, vehicle is seen in the BG with some of the officials on top of the truck. G 25) CU American reporter with mike in his hand standing next to a truck watching the demonstration; PAN to the right to some of the Japanese officials. 26) CU Some of the Japanese press, one man seen taking notes; some of them wearing gauze masks. G 27) MS Demonstrators on the bridge seen over the heads of the people in the FG, some gas grenades are being tossed towards the demonstrators. G 28) CU American member of the press wiping his eyes; PAN to the right to some Japanese press members. F UX 29) LA-CU Side view of the bridge showing the demonstrators framed in the BG doing a snake dance, spectators seen along the bridge railing looking on demonstrators make a dash, riot police begin chasing them. G 30) CU Piot police having one demonstrator rushing him off to the left to the paddle wagon, Japanese police seen scattered about on the sidewalk looking on. G 31) Demonstrators doing the snake dance, carrying the red flag, they begin moving back across the bridge towards the police, circling around to the right, the Japanese police charge the demonstrators. police begin beating on the demonstrators with fuR5RFLENnC0Eckng one man down; PJ off to the left showing a demonstrator being carried off; swish PAN back to the right showing a mass of Japanese police acing the mass of demonstrators, police begin falling back; PAN fur her off to the left looking down and over to the fire trucks. VG 32) HA MS Japanese police charging the demonstrators, one demonstrator seen throwing some object towards the police; PAN off to the left showing the police falling back. G 33) HA MLS Water front area several people on the water front; PAN off to the left showing a HA view of the crowds of people lining the water front; PAN back over the demonstrators on the bridge area, smoke drifting to the right from the tear gas; PAN further to the left over the two fire trucks in the FG, mass of riot police in the DBG beyond the fire trucks. 34) MA MLS Huge mass of demonstrators on the far side of the bridge; PAN slightly to the right showing the large crowd lining the fa side of the river. (color, unedited, silent) (January 16, 1968)

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