A “TREASURE trove” of footage documenting events from Elizabeth Taylor’s 40th birthday party to the Vietnam War is being resurrected from an old bunker formerly used as General Dwight D Eisenhower’s Second World War headquarters.
The vast archive of 20,000 film cans, containing 3,500 hours of international news, has been stored for almost 40 years deep underground in central London, from which Gen Eisenhower, who later became President of the United States, directed the D-Day landings. The footage, the legacy of television news agency United Press International Television News (UPITN), covers events from the 1960s and 1970s.
The “time capsule” footage also documents youth and popular culture.
