The Battle for Bloody Ridge

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1169A

Date Released

1 Nov 1951

Date submitted

29 Oct 1951

Stories in this Issue:

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Korea - Battle for Bloody Ridge. DESCRIPTION: Canadian gunners have been effective in blasting the Reds from strong positions. The battle for Bloody Ridge, as one Communist position has been named, involved South Korean infantry in some very stiff fighting and after many hours of desperate struggle, they eventually took the ridge. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. GV artillery firing. GV masses tens of thousands of shell cases on ground, just dumped there. Ditto. Tanks going over rough country. Tanks firing their guns. GV valley. GV artillery putting up a barrage. GV infantry advance over valley. Individual infantrymen racing forward, falling flat & firing machine guns, etc. Communist Koreans surrender, several shots. Shot of dead Korean. Various shots of men firing tracers at dusk, hitting ridge & ricochetting. Dense smoke rises from the ridge.

Keywords

Vehicles; Environment; Weapons; Death; Prisoners of war; Military

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

56256

Credits:

Commentator: Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

152

Story extras:

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