Castro Builds Cactus Curtain, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
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LR 928 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM BRANCH ROOM 2E791 (A) EXTENSION 75111 Release No. 20-62 Footage: 300' No From DUPE NEGATIVE TO: 22 January 1962 FINE GRAIN TO; CASTRO BUILDS CACTUS CURTAIN (Official Nevy footage released by Department of Defense) Fidel Castro's mean are building a wall around the outpost of Democracy in Cuba, the big U. S. Naval Base, Guantansno Bay, Cuba. His wall is a five yard vide hedge of bayonet grass-- a cactus plant with long, sharp leaves that look and act like butcher knives - being planted against the Base's 24-mile long fence. Cuban construction crews, using big bulldozers are working 24 hours a day to clear a 30-yard vide strip around the Base's perimeter. U Sequences show: (a) U. S. Naval Base, Guantansno Bay, Cuba. (b) Various scenes of cactus planted on Cuban side of fence. (c) Cuban construction crews clearing a wide strip around the Base's perimeter. NOTE TO EDITORS: 300' 35mm fine grain handed out to Telenews for servicing both IV and theatrical pool. members. Fine grain to be forwarded to Arzy Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York, within 72 hours. Zypea 18 maybo sg Pyr 12-3-62 April AMP NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dup e negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. within 24 hours it will be delivered` to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, 'N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. E10575
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