Saigon To-Day

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2280

Date Released

12 Feb 1973

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Saigon To-Day
2. 2Lobster Nursery
3. 3Eec Kippers
4. 4Paris Meat Market
5. 5Tunnel of Fire
6. 6Tracked Hovertrain

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Saigon on Cease Fire Day. DESCRIPTION: One minute silence was held in Saigon and then business as usual. Soldiers on the alert and armoured car patrolling the streets. At Tyminh and elsewhere, the war continues. SHOTLIST: TS from car driving through Saigon. CU pull focus on two South Vietnamese soldiers on duty with automatic rifles. GV pan everyone at standstill for 1 minute silence to mark cease-fire. SV street scene pull focus to CU rifle of soldier in fore ground. SV main street, soldier in fore ground. SCU another soldier standing on duty in street. CU another soldier pan with 2 girls as they walk past. Full CU another soldier. SV armoured personnel carrier driving along highway outside Saigon. SV troops running into wood. SV Vietnamese attacking Viet-Cong position. CU mortar being loaded and fired. CU soldier on field telephone. LV smoke coming from Viet-Cong position, South Vietnamese troops in fore ground. SV pan soldiers running across open ground. GV battleground. LV heavy machine gun firing into jungle from Land Rover. SV pan troops running into village. SV soldier walking along street with South Vietnamese flag tied to rifle. SCU dead villager. SV another ditto. SV body, pan up to civilians looking. SV pan up from two helmets lying on ground to villager raking through smouldering rubble. SV pan from ditto to villagers collecting rice from pile. SV pan soldiers carrying body on stretcher. SCU soldier walking with wounded comrade. CU pan up another soldier trudging along road. 2 shots Vietnamese civilians along road. 2 shots Vietnamese civilians along road. SV ditto past soldier carrying Vietnamese flag. CU wagon wheel forming wall of shelter pan to SV woman with children sitting on ground. SV children running about playing, girl in fore ground cooking. TS past cow and family sitting in open ground. SV pan families cooking on open fires. GV pan people living in crude makeshift shelters.

Keywords

Politics and government; Ceremonies

Locations

Saigon; Vietnam

Footage sources

France

Card file number

98839

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

186

Story extras:

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