Specialty CollectionGenre: CONTEMPORARY STOCK FOOTAGE
Description: NEWSFEED: 2/2003, UN, COLIN POWELL ARGUMENT FOR 'SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES' AGAINST IRAQ, HANS BLIX, JACK STRAW, MOHAMED EL BARADEI ; INT MS Donald Rumsfeld at podium talking head about Saddam Hussein ('He never tells the truth'), CU talking head ; INT WS Colin Powell & Jack Straw (British Ambassador to UN )share a laugh, Hi-angle WS on UN Security Council floor ; INT VAR Powell shaking hands, VAR Medium shots of UN delegates (I can't recognize many, and the audio hardly helps) ;INT VAR 2 Asian delegates shake hands w/several white ones, MS Tracking Khofi Anan makes his way thru the crowd shaking hands ; INT MS Smiling Colin Powell continues shaking hands & hugging women, WS Khofi Anan takes his seat & others follow suit: VAR ; INT MS Powell given a sheet of paper that really cracks him up.. what's on it? We lowly ones will never know ; INT MS Powell takes his seat, WS Delgates milling around (how long does it take for everyone to sit down?), MS Khofi Anan seated ; INT WS pan-l from stadium seating for observers to round table of UN Security Council, MS Khofi Anan ; INT MS German Ambassador starts meeting (he's the head of the Security Council, a rotating honor) & suggests inviting Iraqi rep ; INT WS Iraqi ambassador joins round table from audience, MS German ambassador continues talking head welcoming weapons inspectors ; INT CU Powell listens, MS German ambassador talking head, MS Powell begins talking head to give presentation about Iraq ;..all about resolution 1441 which 'gave Iraq one. last. chance. to disarm peacefully'....'serious consequences'..INT MS OTS Iraqi Ambassador listens, WS Powell continues, MS Powell, MS Hans Blix & Mohamed El Baradei, MS Powell continues ; MS Chinese delegate listens, MS Powell continues, MS Russian delegate listens, MS Powell prepares to play audio tape of Iraqis ;CU Screen w/translated transcript as audio of Iraqi military talking about weapons inspectors & avoiding them, MS Powell continues ; CU Screen w/translated transcript of Iraqis agreeing to destroy a secret message, MS Powell continues, MS French Ambassador smirks ; MS Powell continues, MS German Ambassador listens w/folded hands, MS Powell keeps at it, MS New Guinea rep (what's he doing here?) ; MS Powell, MS Jack Straw (UK Ambassador), MS Powell, CU Photo of Iraqi scientist holding documents, MS Powell continues ; CU Satellite photo w/heading 'Chemical Munitions stored at Taji', CU Satellite photo 'Sanitization of Ammmunition Depot at Taji' ; VAR MS Serious Ambassadors, MS Powell explains the significance of the photos & how they prove Iraqi insubordination ;MS Jack Straw, MS Powell continues, VAR CU photos of facilities that 'prove' Iraq is moving chemical weapons around, MS Powell ; WS French & Chinese Ambassadors scowling, MS Powell, CU photo of Iraqi airplane which Powell explains could be used to drop gas ; MS Powell, MS Iraqi Ambassador furiously writes notes, CU Photo of section 4 of Security Council Resolution 1441; MS Cameroon Ambassador looks nervous, MS Powell continues, Hi-angle WS Pan over Security Council round table, MS Powell ;MS Powell holds up a small vial & talks about the damage that amount of anthrax could do, Pan across entire Security Council ; MS Hans Blix & Mohamed El Baradei, MS Powell, MS French Ambassador & Khofi Anan listen to Powell, WS Security Council listens ; MS Colin Powell, CU Infographic on how Iraq could create mobile facilities for biological agents: VAR, CU Russian Ambassador ;CU Infographic on trucks w/biological agents, MS Powell, CU B/W Video of Iraqi jet (Mirage) w/suspicious spray ; MS Powell talks about Iraq poisoning Kurds in the late 80's, MS Pan across VAR Ambassadors ending on Khofi Anan wringing hands ;MS Powell, CU Hans Blix, MS Powell continues, CU VAR Satellite photos w/heading 'Chemical Weapons Leaving Al-Musayyib' ;MS Powell, CU Translated transcript of a General ordering a Colonel to erase all use of the words 'nerve agents' ;..in what document? who knows?..MS Powell, CU Video screen of inspectors w/crate full of cylinders that could be filled w/ biological or chemical agents ; MS Powell, MS German Ambassador looks like he might cry, MS Back to Powell, CU Infographic of the aluminum tube inspectors found ;..Sometime in the future the right course ofaction will be more clear: war was right or war was wrong....From where I sit watching this tape, though.. I must say Colin Powell reminds me of a movie I just saw....'Give 'em the ol' razzle-dazzle.. Razzle-dazzle 'em!'..
