Phim Tai Lieu (Puppet Film)

Phim Tai Lieu Xuong Phim Made in liberated area of South Vietnam. Children playing, skipping rope playing in camp where they learn to make puppets.. Child’s voice as narration. People walk thru devastated jungle, past destroyed equipment looking for scraps for puppets. Outdoors & cutting bomb casings, cutting wire & pounding metal. Fashioning metal puppets. 02:37:24 Instructor & kids make clay heads for puppets. Casting; painting. Playing w/ hand puppets & others. 02;39:25 People in black pajamas exercising to learn body movements. Limbering hands, bending. Accordion player; women walk w/ hand puppets above their heads doing same exercises. CU faces. 02:42:04 Boy w/ puppet playing accordion; others as though playing other instruments - worked w/ sticks & wires. Instructor at blackboard giving music lessons to group w/ puppets. Puppet w/ drum & cymbals; one as orchestra leader. CU of puppets playing instruments, bowing, leaving. 02:45:38 CU faces. 02:46:32 Boy rehearsing for performance practicing emotions. Instructor walks about among the students. 02:48:15 Walk thru woods w/ bags, rifles; poling along in boat at edge of stream. Hiding from plane; looking up watching. 02:49:38 Village people run to greet returning guerillas & give puppet show. Large group watching, laughing. Tale w/ puppet of Ho Chi Minh; people fight American helicopter (puppets). During performance plane over & branches camouflage viewers, stage set dropped. Then show goes ahead. CUs kids laughing at bug attacking American . Puppeteers take bow; audience applauds. The ENd. North Vietnamese Propaganda; 1960s; 1969;