Arab Guerillas Release Hostages At Kuwait Airport
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How to cite this film
‘Kuwait Hostages’, [newsfilm, online], 9 Sep 1973. https://test.learningonscreen.ac.uk/upitn/search/index.php/story/z009799 (Accessed 26 Jun 2025)
Technical Info
- Format / Codec
- MP4
- Source Format / Codec
- MOV
- Video Bitrate
- 800 kbps
- Audio Bitrate
- 128 kbps
- Frame Size
- 640 x 480
- Pixels Cropped At Encoding
- Top: 0, Bottom: 0, Left: 90, Right: 90
- Reason For Crop
- Removal of video noise
- Other Edits
- Video was trimmed of first 7 seconds to remove AP title card
- Slug
- Kuwait Hostages
- Date
- 9 Sep 1973
- Dateline
- Kuwait City
- Script
- Arab guerillas release hostages at Kuwait airport.
- Shotlist
-
- 1. gv airport building
- 2. gv plane with Arabic writing on
- 3. ms men looking on
- 4. gv line of fire engines
- 5. ms armed soldiers lined up
- 6. gv aeroplane NIGHT SHOTS
- 7. line of soldiers marching towards and past the camera
- 8. gv sunset pan down to plane
- 9. ms two Arabic men talking to guardsman NIGHT SHOTS
- 10. hostage being escorted through press crowd
- Film status
- Syndicated
- Processing date
- 9 Sep 1973
- Processing location
- London
- Original film
- Colour Reversal
- Original sound
- Magnetic Sound On Film
- Duration
- 00:01:02
- Sources
- AP Television
- NoS ID
- z009799
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How to cite this record
'Arab Guerillas Release Hostages At Kuwait Airport', 9 Sep 1973. https://test.learningonscreen.ac.uk/upitn/search/index.php/story/z009799 (Accessed 26 Jun 2025)