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1950s - Indochina War: Chien Thang Dien Bien Phu (Victory At Dien Bien Phu) R2 of 3, Card 3 of 3

Reel Number: H1907-02-P3

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1954,1964,1950s

Country: China,India,Laos,Vietnam

Location: Dien Bien Phu

TC Begins: 03:31:51

TC Ends: 03:59:45

Duration: 00:27:54

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1950s - Indochina War R2 of 3, Card 3 of 3 03:51:18 Continued... French loading heavy artillery, firing. Battle fighting, Viet Minh watching tanks; planes over low thru smoke & anti-aircraft guns tracking, firing. CUs. Plane down in smoke & burning. 03:52:53 Artillery, machine guns firing. Troops running alongside tanks. Men digging & firing from trench. 03:53:09 Still photograph of French officers. C-47 plane w/ Red Cross marking on tail. CU pilot in cockpit on radio. Supplies being dropped out of rear doors. Aerial view of base below w/ craters from heavy shell or other damage. Air to air of several French planes; dumping supplies from within plane; aerial of smoking hilltops around base. 03:54:00 Newspaper headline Ra Suc Doat Cho Nheiu... 03:54:04 Twin-engine plane in low, anti-aircraft guns firing, supplies out of plane & parachute opening. Boxes land. Machine gun firing; wounded carried on stretchers. Viet Minh cut parachute loose from crate & carry crates into / thru jungle to their position. Stacked crates. Newspaper article Doat Du Cua Dich. CU Viet Minh soldier sighting rifle, firing, more guns, articles. Still of crashed plane & smoke rising from base. 03:56:05 MCU Viet Minh soldier playing harmonica as others w/ rifles listen / watch. GOOD. 03:56:24 Sewing; treating wounded; doctor, nurses, peasant women. 03:57:03 Soldier lighting pipe, smoking, relaxing, reading in trench. Stills & illustrations. Wounded French prisoners. Newspaper articles re Dien Bien Phu. 03:58:32 Wide river w/ ships, junks & barges. USA flag. Helicopter landing on large navy aircraft carrier,other ships. Jet taking off from carrier. Aircraft carrier thru narrow straits. 03:58:54 Pan fog & clouds in mountain valleys from hilltop. Hidden Viet Minh army group at table in deep narrow excavation. Ho Chi Minh talking to man around table, MCU. Men listening. entrance to tunnel seen behind. 03:59:36 Title card: Toan Dan, Toan Dang Va Chinh Phu, Quyet Dem, Toan Luc De etc. Hands putting poster up: Tat Ca Cho... End R2. Historical Documentary Film; Revolution; Insurrection; History; Southeast Asia; French Colonialism; Anti-Colonial; French Indochina War; 1950s; Hero; Celebrity; Dien Bien Phu; NOTE: Print is contrasty and has some intermittent water damage, heavy at beginning of reel; unusual action footage. First French Indochina War fought from 19Dec46 to 01Aug54. Viet Minh fought low-level insurgency till 1949 when Chinese Communists reached northern border, then it became modern conflict w/ sides supplied by USA & USSR. NOTE: Partial or entire 03:31:51 - 03:59:45 (3 cards) sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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