Media Type

Moving Image

Credit

Trung tâm quốc gia Điến Ảnh

Physical Location

Digital Only

Number of Media

1

Language(s)

English Vietnamese Russian

Format

16mm

Time - Hr:Min:Sec

00:24:41

Digitized in HD?

No

General Note

[VNCA NOTE: This media contains graphic imagery, including footage of deceased citizens, soldiers, and non-combatants. Viewer discretion is advised.]
[VNCA NOTE: Please note, the VNCA does not house the physical copies of films from this collection at our facility, we only have digitized copies. The actual films are housed at the Library of Congress.]
[VNCA NOTE: VNCA has removed 30 seconds of leader from beginning of film and 30 seconds of tail from end of film for an easier viewing experience.]

Media contains documentary film detailing the 10 years of mass exodus, warfare, and instability faced by the peoples of Vietnam after being divided at the 17th parallel.

Film introduction: Trung tâm quốc gia Điến Ảnh trình bày: Hình ảnh bên kia vĩ tuyến 17 đã được trích ra từ những phim tuyên truyền của khối Cộng Sản và đã được trình bày một cách vô tư trên màn ảnh này để khán giả xét đoán.

00:00 leader film - countdown - title screen - disclaimer - narration begins ;
00:41 documentary begins - cannons - gunfire - explosions - air raid - bombing - tanks - Battle of Dien Bien Phu - Viet Minh - French Colonials - Geneva conference - 17th parallel ;
2:15 mass migration - fleeing - Viet Minh - HAnoi - transfer of power - communism - Haiphong ;
4:40 village massacres ;
5:35 Vietnam map - diagram - migrant routes - Hanoi - Hai-phong - Hue - Phnom Penh - Saigon - longitude - latitude - coordinates - 184.738 - 427.057 - National Army - free Vietnam - resistance - war bonds - scorched earth - communist cadres - insurgency - refugees - national economy ;
8:00 Ben Hai bridge - Ben Hai River - Song Ben Hai - Red China - people's court - intellectuals - relious leaders - peoples' service - forced labor - child labor - buffalos - Ho Chi Minh - irrigaiton system - yearly floods - Hanoi Van Nam railroad - communism - labor party conference - 1960 - South Liberation Front ;
11:00 diagram - chart - organizational chart - December 1960 - (Nguyen Van Hieu) - Labor Party - strategy - Russian Map - (Son Mai - Bien Quang - Ning Kai) - Vietnam - Laos - Cambodia - invasion - cadres - sabatoge - subversion - puppet government - Viet Cong ;
12:34 raided village - destruction - Leper Colony - medical supplies ;
13:03 GRAPHIC - photos of deceased Vietnam citizens, inculding men, women, children, monks, nuns ;
13:21 funeral - colonel Huang Tri Nam - denouncing Viet Cong - protests - no family - no ftherland - no religion - ARVN - military action - tanks - battles - ARVN soldiers - helicopter landing - June 1962 - invasion - Geneva ARticles 10, 19, and 27 ;
15:57 GRAPHIC - dead bodies - corpses ;
16:01 China resuplies North Vietnam - ARVN response - aircraft - Hueys - military vehicles - guerilla warfare - parachuting - helicopter landing - Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw - H-34A, UH-34D - Seahorse - Piasecki H-21 - Workhorse - Shawnee - the flying banana - battles - ground fighting - radio man - dive bombing - air raid ;
18:24 GRAPHIC - dead body - corpse ;
18:28 captured Viet Cong - captured supplies - international supplies - Cambodian instruments - Chinese supplies - Russian supplies - Russian textbooks - prisoners of war - POWs - pow convession - viet cong weapons - submachine guns - antiaircraft guns - cannons - international weapiosn -Vu Do-van-giong - 6-12-62 - 2,000 instances of Geneva conventions violations by Viet Cong ;
20:54 Captured Viet Cong lieutenant - testimony - Vietnamese language - dubbed translation - (Nguyen Duk Ta) - lieutenant gives details of his experience secretly invading South Vietnam - Hue - Quang Nam - propaganda - the problem of Vietnam - colonialism - communism - hopes for reunification ;
24:22 end