Var Scenes from Korean War
Var Scenes from Korean War
Clip: 500943_1_1
Year Shot: 1950
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1783
Original Film: HFR-SFL-35-109
HD: N/A
Location: Seoul, South Korea (Republic of Korea)
Timecode: 01:17:05 - 01:17:52
Master 1783 - Tape 1 MS U.S. Army soldiers pushing something apparently stuck in mud (framing of shot reveals not much). MSs Korean men, women & children digging, shoveling. TLS/MSs two Korean boys & one girl sifting through rubble, chopping bricks w/ flat knife. MSs Korean man re-laying destroyed brick wall. VO: "The people of Seoul, liberated capital of the Republic, began to dig out of the rubble that was once their city. Without adequate machinery, they literally rebuilt their houses with their own hands. Korea prepared for peace." (13-6) LS smoke rising from Korean village in distance. (14-8) LS two U.S. military landing craft (pontoon boats) arriving onto stormy shore on cloudy day. (20-8)