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Life of Ho Chi Minh R2 of

Reel Number: 220772-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1920-1945

Country: France,Indochina,Vietnam

Location: Paris

TC Begins: 07:09:09

TC Ends: 07:17:14

Duration: 00:08:05

Life of Ho Chi Minh R2 of Ho Chi Minh reading newspaper. African crowd sitting. African man makes speech to mixed race French? troops. Recruiting Vietminh guerrilla fighters? :Ho Chi Minh walking through jungle - instructing group Ho Chi Minh visiting village - peasants in rice paddies run to Ho Chi Minh; Ho talking with old woman and others, with children. offered gifts. Ho washing feet in river, writing by hut; giving talk to small group of men; riding horse in jungle. Vietminh? soldiers applaud. Cascade. Still ceremony Vietminh troops in jungle. Revolt? pre- 1945?: Vietnam flag w/ star on palace and big crowd (all stills) 07:12:57: 02Sep45: ceremony to proclaim Democratic Republic of Vietnam & Ho Chi Minh speech. Ho at airport leaving for France and with French dignitaries - newspaper headlines re trip. Vietnam flag on French building; chateau (Versailles?); conference with French. 07:14:09 Hammer & sickle w/ Vietnamese writing. Ho speech (at Viet Communist Party HQ?) and audience applauds; cheering under hammer & sickle. Ho talks to people outdoors. 07:14:53: Sign in Vietnamese re Vietminh. Ho Chi Minh at meeting. Farmers plow rice paddies. French? man with mustache. 07:16:27 - 1920: Letter from Ho in China re sending Vietnamese children to be pioneers in Russia. Newspaper article and other documents re Ho under pseudonym N’Guyen Ai Quoc Very grainy and scratched. Indochina;

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