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Civilians Flee Seoul

Civilians Flee Seoul
Clip: 509946_1_1
Year Shot: 1950 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1848
Original Film: HFR-SFL-35-235
HD: N/A
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Timecode: 01:55:50 - 01:56:52

Master 1848 - Tape 1 Panning MS South Korean man wearing light-colored fedora hat and dark-colored overcoat and pants while walking along empty street in Seoul, South Korea; the smiling man has a over packed knapsack slung over shoulder, carries extra pair of leather dress shoes. MS/CUs Korean man resoling shoes on street. Panning high angle TLS overfilled railroad cars, refugees packing the roof of each car, crowded train station. Panning MS South Korean women and children and some men atop train car waiting to depart station TLS refugees climbing onto train car with belongings. VO: "Traveling shoemakers, the only businessmen still in business. It's a 200 mile mountainous walk to Pusan. The scene at this railroad station is typical, as only 200,000 of Seoul's million and a half people remain in the city..."