NOTES: COL PRINT LOCATION: CAIRO, EGYPT. TITLE: ASU - NASSER SERVICED DATE: 10/01/77 NO: LNC 86787 DATE SHOT: 09/29/77 LENGTH: 59 FEET SECONDS: 1:34 SOUND: NATSOF DATE OF ARRIVAL:
NOTES: COL PRINT
LOCATION: CAIRO, EGYPT.
TITLE: ASU - NASSER
SERVICED DATE: 10/01/77
NO: LNC 86787
DATE SHOT: 09/29/77
LENGTH: 59 FEET
SECONDS: 1:34
SOUND: NATSOF
DATE OF ARRIVAL:
FILM SHOWS: YOUNG MEMBERS OF THE ASU (ARAB SOCIALIST UNION), GATHERED AT THEIR PARTY HEADQUARTERS TO MARK THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF FORMER PRESIDENT GAMAL ABDEL NASSER, INCLUDING A VISIT TO HIS TOMB.
LEAD IN: MEMBERS OF THE ASU (ARAB SOCIALIST UNION) GATHERED TOGETHER ON THURSDAY, (29 SEPTEMBER), TO MARK THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF THE FORMER EGYPTIAN LEADER GAMAL ABDEL NASSER.
FEET R/SECS
18 29 MCU MANSOOR SPEAKING (IN ARABIC)
21 34 MS APPLAUSE, PAN SOCIALIST MEMBERS
24 38 MS PEOPLE WALK TO NASSER'S TOMB
26 42 MS TOMB GUARDS
35 56 MS WREATHS BEING LAID AT TOMB
39 1:02 MS TILT UP ALONG TOMB
42 1:07 WREATHS (2)
49 1:18 PEOPLE PRAYING AT TOMB, ZOOM IN ON MANSOOR
59 1:34 CU PICTURE OF NASSER - PULL OUT TO MANSOOR WRITING
COMMENTARY: ABDEL HALIEM MANSOOR, WHO IS THE ASU'S YOUTH SUPERVISOR DELIVERED A SPEECH IN WHICH HE SPOKE ABOUT NASSER'S JULY 23 1952 REVOLUTION.
NOT ONLY IN EGYPT, BUT ALSO IN SEVERAL OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES, SOCIALISTS CONSIDER NASSER AS THE ONLY ARAB HERO AND LEADING STATESMAN OF HIS TIME. FOLLOWING THE MEETING, THE GATHERING PAID A VISIT TO NASSER'S TOMB WHERE PRAYERS WERE SAID IN A TRADITIONAL MOSLEM CEREMONY IN HIS MEMORY, AND DOZENS OF WREATHS WERE LAID DOWN ON HIS TOMB. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY THE WRITING OF AN INSCRIPTION IN HIS REMEMBRANCE. NASSER'S TOMB IS HEAVILY GUARDED, ALTHOUGH HIS POPULARITY HAS BEEN WANING SOMEWHAT SINCE A LOT OF JOURNALISTS HAVE PUBLISHED THE SEAMIER SIDE OF HIS RULE, AND CERTAIN POLITICAL FIGURES HAVE TRIED TO PROVE THAT NASSER SANCTIONED THE USE OF TORTURE IN POLITICAL PRISONS. BUT DESPITE THESE REVELATIONS, VERY FEW PEOPLE CAN DENY THAT NASSER ACHIEVED A LOT FOR EGYPT.