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Vietnam - Saigon Street Scenes, ca early 1960s (?)

Reel Number: 221488-05

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1960s

Country: Vietnam

Location: Saigon

TC Begins: 20:55:25

TC Ends: 20:59:11

Duration: 00:03:46

Vietnam - Saigon Street Scenes, ca early 1960s (?) Large colonial building - Saigon City Hall; pull back w/ crowded plaza of stalls & flowers. Three women looking at flowers & walking toward camera. Man unloading flowers from top of bus; men setting up stalls. Woman in pedicab w/ plant. 20:56:18 MCU Camera moving in front of two women in silk dresses looking at flowers; man carrying large chrysanthemum. 20:56:29 Woman w/ chrysanthemums in pedicab. Flowering tree carried past. 20:56:38 Large traffic circle w/ traffic & statue; clock tower beyond. MCU of clocktower, flag & advertising signs. Looking down on street stalls w/ canvas covers. MCU Shopping women & men. CU shoppers; CU fruit, vegetables, etc Woman putting ?? into plastic bag. Plates covered w/ cellophane. 20:57:36 Street scene w/ cars, motorcycles, scooters pedestrians past park block or plaza. MCU pedestrians, women in bright dresses, some Vietnamese soldiers w/ rifles. Men carrying bundles of incense. 20:58:13 Food stalls or ?? People in front of temple burning incense bundles & bowing. Interior w/ many people. Altar. Dragon dance; dancing w/ man in mask as people watch. Saigon, Vietnam Daily Life; 1960s (?); Religion - Buddhist; Ceremony; Food; Note: No visible Americans.

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