Learning on ScreenVictims of Vietnam
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Victims of Vietnam. DESCRIPTION: Some of the graphic action film, shot during Operation Masher, a combined American, South Vietnamese and South Korean assault against the Viet Cong. The death toll inflicted on the Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese troops is one of the highest of the whole war and at least seven hundred are believed to have been killed. SHOTLIST: UP Copyright - Pan aircraft drops bomb, cloud of smoke rises above trees. MS USA soldier. CU another. BS two more soldiers by a tree. Pan aircraft flies over and drops bomb, cloud of smoke rises over trees. BS American troops move forward and drop for cover. MLS burning village. MS American soldier moves across field. MS American medics carry a stretcher across field. MS medics drag a wounded soldier into cover. LS bomb explodes in the middle of village. MS kids fleeing across a field. MS American soldier helps a mother and her child from a dug-out. MCU wounded soldier has his leg treated by a medic. MS another ditto. MS wounded soldiers lying in a trench smoking. MS mother and her children. CU Vietnamese boy. MS Vietnamese youth nursing his dead brother.
- Keywords
- Aviation; Military
- Locations
- Vietnam
- Footage sources
- United Press International [UPI]
- Card file number
- 90754
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 134
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