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Bomb Damage, Refugees Following Communist Invasion of S. Korea

Bomb Damage, Refugees Following Communist Invasion of S. Korea
Clip: 500282_1_1
Year Shot: 1950 (Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1490
Original Film: HFR-SFL-35-064
HD: N/A
Location: South Korea
Timecode: 02:33:19 - 02:34:31

Master 1490 - Tape 2 LS large fires burning on hillside in South Korea, night. TLS building w/ tile roof burning in city, day; MS smoke wafting about remnants of chimney; MS flames searing high behind structural damage, smoke drifting across frame. Panning MS short-cropped, weary South Korean man wearing dirty white shirt, carrying pail of water past cam. Panning MS another Korean man tossing bucket of water onto balcony. TLS Korean man tossing pan of water onto smoldering rubble. TLS Korean men filling pans with water on street. MS young Korean woman w/ sleeping child strapped to back/waist weeping while placing folding cloth & placing it into cabinet on street. MS filthy, barefoot Korean girl sitting on dirt road cluttered with debris, crying, weeping. MS Korean boy with dirty face crying with his arms outstretched on street lined with detritus; mother with child strapped to back/waist enters frame to console boy. TLS Korean War refugees walking along path in field. Panning MS boy refugee with wood-frame backpack walking by cam. MS refugees filing past cam, some women balancing large burdens on heads, others carrying belongings strapped to backs; burdened cow, too. Diss to historical reenactment TLS refugees walking through "village" (studio set). This story regards the crossing of the 38th Parallel and subsequent invasion of South Korea by Red Chinese and North Korean forces.