Newsreels: Quemoy, Formosa ; Malaya ; China Sea ; Indo-China, 01/1962 (full)
Freely downloadable at the
Internet Archive, where I first uploaded it.
Silent newsreels.
National Archives description "LS, harbor of
Quemoy in the Formosan Strait,
Nationalist China. VS, US LCMs moving toward camera transport supplies to floating dock. LS, three US warships in harbor. CU, US flag flies from ship's mast.
Short cuts, US crews man ships guns -- CU
sign: "
Notice You are
Leaving a
White Area" in
English,
Arabic, and
Chinese." MSs,
Malayan troops stand guard near sign, "
STOP POLICE CHECK" halting pedestrians and subjecting them to search.
A women is led into a shelter by women soldiers. VS, Malayan notable (name unknown) at outdoor ceremony presents silver plates to a few troops. Short scene,
Malayans seated on ground, eating -- LS, two US ships in
Formosa Straits. HS, deck of carrier.
MLS, destroyer underway. LS,
Navy jet planes in short jet-assist takeoff from carrier's deck. VS,
Nationalist Chinese officers on ship chart course, look through binoculars and man guns during drill -- Pan, supplies on beach which include barbed wire, gasoline cans, and other materials. US landing craft and equipment in bg. Short scene, shell-torn area of island. Nationalist Chinese troops dig entrenchments, barricade gun emplacement -- Animated map with superimposed planes in flight toward Diem Bien Phu. AV, Diem Bien Phu.
French parachutist descend from plane and hit ground.
C-119 in flight dropping supplies. MCUs, French
General Navarre(?) and others looking at maps. VS,
French troops in combat firing mortars, using field phone, firing rifles and guns. Seq:
Helicopter rescue of wounded French soldier. Short scene, Indo-Chinese troops aiding wounded through heavy brush --
Bombs are loaded aboard
British plane. Ints, of pilot's compartment. LS, Air-to-Air, bombers in flight, dropping bombs on target. LS, three helicopters in flight. VS, a one-armed British general walking toward signal troops in van. LS, British plane in flight. Cut to ints as paratroopers jump from door. Paratroopers parachuting toward earth. Malayan workers constructing storehouses, stringing barbed wire around area. VS, storing of rice in warehouse, women at work sifting grain. LS, newly constructed storehouse area as guard appears; workers in bg.
Guards check civilians who carry rice to storehouse.
British troops moving through wooded area and loading aboard trucks, unloading from trucks at brick building with words "Tam Pin" over doorway. CUs, medical supplies." National Archives Identifier: 28514