Vietnam - Ordeal of Plei Me

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1900A
Date Released
4 Nov 1965
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Time to Reconsider
  2. 2Trouble at the Front
  3. 3High Speed Gas Main
  4. 4Vietnam - Ordeal of Plei Me
  5. 5Schooner Anticipates Launch!

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Vietnam - Ordeal of Plei Me. DESCRIPTION: An American Special Forces Camp in South Vietnam, held under siege eight days by the Viet-Cong Armies. American airborne cavalry flew in to the rescue but only bombing by US and South Vietnam Air Forces broke the siege. SHOTLIST: GV Special Forces camp. LAS Vietnamese flag. MS Vietnamese defenders at alert in the trenches. MLS ditto. MS naked child in sandbagged trench. MS naked child and mother in sandbagged trench. MS mother and children in sandbagged trench. GV pan of Special Forces camp. MS spent shell cases. MS pan covered corpses. Ground to air aircraft dropping supplies by parachute. LS parachutes landing. Air to ground Vietnamese forest. GV through helicopter pilot’s window at airfield. GV helicopter coming in to land. MS pan wounded being carried to waiting helicopters. MS pan ditto. MLS pan ditto. MS wounded man being placed in the helicopter. GV helicopters take off. MCU Vietnamese soldier sitting in his dug out. MCU American soldier with plaster on his face. TS American soldiers in their dug outs. MCU American negro soldier on the field telephone. MS American negro soldier talking to white American soldier. MCU Vietnamese soldier speaking into walkie talkie. Ground to air American rocket firing jet. LS explosion in the forest, large cloud of smoke. Ground to air American rocket firing jet. LS explosion in the forest, large cloud of smoke. LS large cloud of smoke in the forest. LS twin clouds of smoke in the forest. GV pan Special Forces camp.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Children; Weapons; Aviation; Explosions; War damage; Military
Locations
Vietnam
Footage sources
France
Card file number
90388
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
144
Story extras:
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