Title:TALKS BETWEEN PRIME MINISTER WILSON AND IAN SMITH ONBOARD HMS TIGER [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1936
Other titles:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - RHODESIA [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:
Description: Aerial MS of HMS Fife (D.20) steaming at sea, with HMS Tiger in the background - the camera aircraft circles across Fife's bows. Cut to Tiger where various of the negotiators are gathered on the quarterdeck - Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Governor of Rhodesia, and Sir Hugh Beadle, Rhodesia's Chief Justice, talk with Naval officers, including Rear-Admiral Michael Pollock, 2-in-C Home Fleet, Captain Kirkby of the Tiger, and Captain Clayton of DN Plans. The group moves off. CU of a Lieutenant-Commander taking a compass bearing. A Wessex lifts off two of the negotiating team. Aerial MLS off the port bow of Tiger, the camera aircraft circling across her bows and down the starboard side - Fife in the background. Cut back to the quarterdeck of Tiger - Ian Smith and Prime Minister Wilson are present with their aides, one of whom holds a file labelled 'Confidential' which attracts the cameraman's attention. Naval photographer takes pictures of Wilson. Smith is shown round the ship. CU of a tiger head under glass - the ship's emblem. Smith and his team leave the ship at night - they are taken off by a launch. Wilson addresses the crew, gathered on the quarterdeck - the ship is alongside at Gibraltar.
Alternative Title:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - RHODESIA [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Wilson, Harold (person)
Smith, Ian D (person)
Pollock, Michael Patrick (person)
Gibbs, Humphrey V (person)
Beadle, Hugh W (person)
Clayton, R P (person)
Kirkby, G J (person)
Royal Navy, Tiger (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, FIFE (HMS), destroyer (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - cruiser: Tiger (object name)
ships, British naval - destroyer: Fife (D.20) (object name)
aircraft, British naval - helicopter: Westland Wessex (object name)
Rhodesian UDI (event)
