Funeral In Saigon, 1960's - Film 17411

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Saigon, Vietnam. Funeral procession in the rain of a girl teacher named Phon Thi Mai, or Nhat Chi Mai, who burnt herself alive in protest. (22/5/67) Buddhists walking in the procession (children). A woman holds up a framed photograph of the deceased. The coffin is carried by horse and cart, horses are covered by white cloth. A boy sits by the coffin. Passive suidical protest to Vietnam war. People walk behind the coffin, holding up banners. Blank screen. 7/9/67 An American man, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, speaks. (at an airport). Sound quality is not too good. Senator Edmund Muskie (Democrat, Maine)speaks. John S Knight (newspaper publisher) also at the airport. Governor Richard J Hughes (Demorat, New Jersey) at airport. Knight and Cabot Lodge speak again. They all comment on Vietnam (election period). Close up of sign - Chesire High School. See school. Car drives past. Front view of a church. see close up of a sign - First Congregational Church, Chesire, Conn. Founded 1724. Ministers: Edwin R Lincoln, Wayne R Sandau. People walk in and out of a doorway. People sitting in what looks like a lecture hall. See black people in the audience. On stage a white man is speaking. (19/6/67) Votes on Votes on proposal on Negroes in the Community. Cannot really hear what he is saying. Crowd applaud him. A man carries a banner "Kennedy for Dog Catcher". Close up of audience. A white woman speaks on stage. Another white man speaks. Another man reads out the outcome of the vote. In favour of the black community. Interview: a man commenting that it was not the election that he had hoped for. Blank screen. Vietnamese civilians in the cattle field. The men mend a fence. VietCong officer dressed as a civilian lies on the floor. See GI's shooting. 1/9/67 Village development. Vietnamese building with brick and placing hay on a rooftop. They dust the road and Vietnamese boy sings with the guitar and the rest join in - sound. Women and children sit on the roadside. Close up of a Vietnamese girl singing and clapping. Close up of children. Blank screen. Entrance to village. Sign - Truong-So-cap. The village is just ruins. Camera pans around the ruins. Vietnamese men are rebuilding. Children walk down the road in school uniform (shirts and shorts) See children standing outside the village entrance. Blank screen. People standing outside a building - Chuatu-Nghiem - close up. Women cover up what could be a dead body. Incense/candles are lit An old man is distressed and is being held by a young boy. The man is speaking to another man (possibly explaining the situation). A woman to the side of them is crying (looks like a nun). The old man pretends he is on fire and falls to the ground re-enacting what happened. 18/5/67 A nun had burnt herself. Close up of the dead body covered up. Close up of a written statement with blood smeared over it. Close up of the ashes. Close up of incense and candles. Camera looking down outside of building. See a crowd of people. The body is carried away. Blank screen. Aeroplane - Air Vietnam airline. People exit the aircraft. Close up of Vietnamese officials. City. See cameramen and photojournalists. Two men hold up a banner. The banner appears to be some sort of election demonstration as two photographs of two men feature on the placard. To the side of the men are four different placards with statements. One of the banners is the same as the one the two men were holding up. Inside the building, placards are held up over the staircase and people stand over the staircase. A vietnam official stands taliking into a microphone, a man stands beside him. Camera turns to people watching. Men are seated at two rows of tables with little plaques in front of them. Buddhist monks are sitting amongst a crowd. One of them is reading a leaflet. Back to the man speaking. Can see him on a stage and a poster is placed in front of the box which he stands in to speak. Camera turns to audience. See woman on the end of the row, see more women and a wired-off doorway with people standing at the other side of it (men only). People outside protest, holding up their election placards. See another man speaking into the microphone. Camera turns to the audience. On stage, see men holding up the banners in protest. Could be the Vietnam presidential campaign in Mekong Delta. 27/8/67

Funeral In Saigon, 1960's - Film 17411

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Saigon, Vietnam. Funeral procession in the rain of a girl teacher named Phon Thi Mai, or Nhat Chi Mai, who burnt herself alive in protest. (22/5/67) Buddhists walking in the procession (children). A woman holds up a framed photograph of the deceased. The coffin is carried by horse and cart, horses are covered by white cloth. A boy sits by the coffin. Passive suidical protest to Vietnam war. People walk behind the coffin, holding up banners. Blank screen. 7/9/67 An American man, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, speaks. (at an airport). Sound quality is not too good. Senator Edmund Muskie (Democrat, Maine)speaks. John S Knight (newspaper publisher) also at the airport. Governor Richard J Hughes (Demorat, New Jersey) at airport. Knight and Cabot Lodge speak again. They all comment on Vietnam (election period). Close up of sign - Chesire High School. See school. Car drives past. Front view of a church. see close up of a sign - First Congregational Church, Chesire, Conn. Founded 1724. Ministers: Edwin R Lincoln, Wayne R Sandau. People walk in and out of a doorway. People sitting in what looks like a lecture hall. See black people in the audience. On stage a white man is speaking. (19/6/67) Votes on Votes on proposal on Negroes in the Community. Cannot really hear what he is saying. Crowd applaud him. A man carries a banner "Kennedy for Dog Catcher". Close up of audience. A white woman speaks on stage. Another white man speaks. Another man reads out the outcome of the vote. In favour of the black community. Interview: a man commenting that it was not the election that he had hoped for. Blank screen. Vietnamese civilians in the cattle field. The men mend a fence. VietCong officer dressed as a civilian lies on the floor. See GI's shooting. 1/9/67 Village development. Vietnamese building with brick and placing hay on a rooftop. They dust the road and Vietnamese boy sings with the guitar and the rest join in - sound. Women and children sit on the roadside. Close up of a Vietnamese girl singing and clapping. Close up of children. Blank screen. Entrance to village. Sign - Truong-So-cap. The village is just ruins. Camera pans around the ruins. Vietnamese men are rebuilding. Children walk down the road in school uniform (shirts and shorts) See children standing outside the village entrance. Blank screen. People standing outside a building - Chuatu-Nghiem - close up. Women cover up what could be a dead body. Incense/candles are lit An old man is distressed and is being held by a young boy. The man is speaking to another man (possibly explaining the situation). A woman to the side of them is crying (looks like a nun). The old man pretends he is on fire and falls to the ground re-enacting what happened. 18/5/67 A nun had burnt herself. Close up of the dead body covered up. Close up of a written statement with blood smeared over it. Close up of the ashes. Close up of incense and candles. Camera looking down outside of building. See a crowd of people. The body is carried away. Blank screen. Aeroplane - Air Vietnam airline. People exit the aircraft. Close up of Vietnamese officials. City. See cameramen and photojournalists. Two men hold up a banner. The banner appears to be some sort of election demonstration as two photographs of two men feature on the placard. To the side of the men are four different placards with statements. One of the banners is the same as the one the two men were holding up. Inside the building, placards are held up over the staircase and people stand over the staircase. A vietnam official stands taliking into a microphone, a man stands beside him. Camera turns to people watching. Men are seated at two rows of tables with little plaques in front of them. Buddhist monks are sitting amongst a crowd. One of them is reading a leaflet. Back to the man speaking. Can see him on a stage and a poster is placed in front of the box which he stands in to speak. Camera turns to audience. See woman on the end of the row, see more women and a wired-off doorway with people standing at the other side of it (men only). People outside protest, holding up their election placards. See another man speaking into the microphone. Camera turns to the audience. On stage, see men holding up the banners in protest. Could be the Vietnam presidential campaign in Mekong Delta. 27/8/67