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1942 DEFENCE: Communications between desert and Government Headquarters in Cairo
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1:34Now PlayingDate: 1st January 1942
Location: CAIRO, EGYPT MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
Man past camera, one with papers towards knocks at door / Notice on door "CIPHERS X ROOM. POSITIVELY NO ADMITTANCE" door opens, man takes in papers / Spiral staircase, man up it / Dispatch case past camera / Notice on door 'C. IN C's WAR ROOM. ADMITTANCE LIMITED TO UNDERMENTIONED." / list below, pan to notice C IN C's WAR ROOM' and arrow / Man arrives at door with dispatch case / Door opened from inside showing man handing papers in from dispatch case, door shut, man walks across room and hands papers to officer seated at desk / Officer looking at papers, sitting at desk / Officer looking at papers, gets up and walks across room, looks through slit in door / View through slit in door / Man opening door and entering / Notice "ARMY SIGNAL OFFICE" pan to man tapping morse / Tapping morse / Pan down wireless mast
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