Universal Newsreel - Alcatraz closes, USA; 1963

Newsreel covering the closure of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, including wide POV shot of cell blocks and a tower, close-up of a sign warning that only authorised boats may approach, members of the press who have been allowed onto the island for the day, inside a cell block showing multi-storey cells with bars, a prison cell door opening to show a tidy cell with basin and guitar on the wall, prisoners walking to buses and boats as they are transferred to other maximum security facilities, guards using a watchtower and families of prison guards leaving by boat, California, USA; March 1963. (Universal Newsreel_Episode 1963 – ABMA707K)
Newsreel covering the closure of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, including wide POV shot of cell blocks and a tower, close-up of a sign warning that only authorised boats may approach, members of the press who have been allowed onto the island for the day, inside a cell block showing multi-storey cells with bars, a prison cell door opening to show a tidy cell with basin and guitar on the wall, prisoners walking to buses and boats as they are transferred to other maximum security facilities, guards using a watchtower and families of prison guards leaving by boat, California, USA; March 1963. (Universal Newsreel_Episode 1963 – ABMA707K)
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Credit:
BBC Motion Gallery Editorial/BBC Archive
Editorial #:
1363295516
Collection:
BBC Editorial
Date created:
21 March, 1963
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Licence type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:00:55:17
Location:
San Francisco, California, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 25p
Source:
BBC Editorial
Object name:
1963c1rockclosesmarch