Anti and pro Vietnam War protest footage in our collection
Anti Vietnam War
220467 03:39:30
- 03:41:21 1967 England
Spain USA b/w Sd
Protests Galore
England - Anti-war demonstration / protest. Demonstrators scuffle with
police. Demonstration organised by CND ( Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament )
Parade down street.
03:40:08 Madrid University - students demonstrate against America
and Vietnam war - burning US flag.
03:40:36 Anti-hate demonstration in Detroit - hippies - painting car with
legalise pot / dope - Love-in.
Girls dancing.
220525 21:27:14
- 21:28:50 1967 b/w Sd Washington
Pentagon Anti-War
Demonstrators Storm Pentagon
Air and Ground views thousands of anti-Vietnam
war demonstrators. Minor scuffles
break out. Protestors marching across Potomac - huge crowd. Military police at
Pentagon - demonstrator being dragged away. More MPs with fixed bayonets move into position.
Scuffles. Second day - students / young people with camp fire - sit-in
demonstration continues outside Pentagon.
600 arrested by end of demo
220467 1967 03:32:48 – 03:35:31
Peace march - Thousands Oppose Vietnam War
Anti-war demonstrators marching with protest
banners - crowds in Central park -
shots showing hippy fashions - draft card burning. Argument between soldier and
peace protestors. Anti Anti-war march - signs Lets bomb Hanoi - Anarachy cannot
be permitted in the USA. Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King
leads procession to United Nations - police arrest demonstrators - dragging
off.
03:34:12 San Fransisco demonstration - parade with banners along Market Street
- Rally in stadium - scuffle.
03:34:47 Rome - night peace demonstration outside US embassy -
turns into riot - police - fighting - sit down protest - using water
cannon.
221088 15:31:33
- 15:32:09 1967 B/W SD Los
Angeles, ca News
In Brief: California
7000 anti- Vietnam War demonstrators w/
placards outside Los Angeles Hotel where President Johnson attending Democratic
Party fundraising dinner - police scuffling w/ pickets - protestors arrested,
one w/ bleeding head.
220991 04:35:28
- 04:41:14 1968 England B/W SIL
Demonstration at US
Embassy, London
anti-Vietnam protest Anti-war
Pro-American Group, carrying
American, British, South Korean and South Vietnamese flags and banners - ÒSouthampton University Monday ClubÓ
- ÒStop Vietcong TerrorÓ etc.
LS Police a standing by & police vans. Looking down over dense crowd of Anti-American protesters
with North Vietnamese flag & banner ÒSusses Univ.Ó - LS protester getting pummelled by
police? Anti-American
demonstrators in altercation with police - some violence. MCU Mounted
police. Protesters throws flour on
police - Che Guevara portrait in crowd. LS over looking
Grosvenor Square showing the square filled with demonstrators milling around
and police trying to disperse crowd - throwing water??
Arrested demonstrators taken to police vans. More overhead views Grosvenor Square w/ protesters. Police van drives off. Group of policemen & mounted police
charging through crowd.
Evening - police and vans outside square.
Police arrest young woman.
04:40:20 Police carry off
protester. Grosvenor Square &
street littered with papers.
Police carrying off some banners; running off with stretchers and
carrying back wounded on stretchers into ambulance.
X 221269 21:09:55
- 21:18:54 1968 COL SD Sofia; Time To Live R2 of 6
Nature, Vietnam valley, big field in front of
mountains, man on small raft floats on the river.
21:10:09
People cheer & chant; applaud at peace demonstration, Vietnamese man
thrown up in air, people cheer Vietnamese delegation on podium, applause, man
hugs & kisses Vietnamese delegates, CU Vietnamese woman w/ flowers &
booklet ÒWe Are With You VietnamÓ.
21:11:10
CU Vietnamese cameraman w/ Bolex films crowds, people run up to him,
hug, kiss, pick him up on their shoulders, carry him around. CU smiling Vietnamese guy passes
cheering crowds, all nationality people sign for solidarity w/ Vietnam in
CU. People give warm welcome to
Vietnamese delegates, hug, give support diplomas. CU 13 years old Vietnamese boy who is a messenger, girl
presents him w/ badge, boy smiles, shakes hands. Various presents for Vietnamese people, new bus, cars,
lorries w/ various machinery as gifts on the beds; drive past Vietnamese
delegation, delegates smile, wave to the cars.
21:12:49
School girl from Hamburg, Germany, Katya Pik(?), plays guitar &
sings her own song against the war in Vietnam, CU girl singing (SOF), girl
walks off w/ guitar on her back.
CU young anti-Vietnam war protesters w/ posters on their backs, big
crowds in demonstration outside American Embassy in Sofia, US flag outside on
embassy wall, crowds cheering, embassy staff look out of windows, various shots
of protesters, CU flag. Little US
flag w/ Peace Vietnam written on it on bus window, anti-Vietnam War American
delegation exits bus, shake hands w/ Vietnamese; delegations enter meeting w/
big sign - ÒVietnam will winÓ written in many languages.
21:14:44
Anti-American meeting, black American woman makes very emotional speech,
some listeners w/ tears in eyes, American woman sits w/ arm around Vietnamese
woman. CU speakers, women cry,
speaker presented w/ flowers by Vietnamese delegates, give hugs, applause,
tearful faces.
21:15:44
Burning US draft card, people applaud & cheer; people hug American
guy, give him flowers, various shots of cheering people, Vietnamese girls hug
& give flowers to American guy, both smile, people w/ serious face
expressions come out of the meeting room.
21:16:28
US army deserters speak on camera (SOF), introduce themselves &
explain why they deserted the US army. (GOOD)
21:17:58
Demonstration continues into the night, flags, various placards carried
by cheering crowds, various shots of people shouting. Square filled w/ protesters, CU smiling & applauding
Japanese soldiers walk thru cheering crowds, GOOD CU various people passionately cheering for
Vietnam.(Continued)
LC 920002 11:23:33
- 11:27:22 1954
- 1986 COL&B/W SD Washington DC; NYC;
Vietnam Experience -
1,2,3 What Are We Fighting For
Bay Area anti-war rally c 1968. Country Joe introduces Fixin to Die
Rag, reads first verse. Draftee
boys saying goodbyes & enter White Hall Induction Center, NYC, for
physicals. Kiss wives,
girlfriends, mothers goodbye.
Uncle Sam wants You poster.
Sign: US Army
Building. Men in line get papers
stamped; listen seated in rows.
Pres. Eisenhower. Physical
exam w/o shirts, bare feet, take cups for urine tests, examined by
doctors.
11:25:48
Boot camp. Drill
instructor, training w/ rifles & bayonets intercut with Vietnam
footage. Stills of early demonstrations,
Kennedy. Shot of LBJ raising &
lowering arms, Westmoreland out of helicopter, greeting soldiers in field. Stills of soldiers in Vietnam. Music by Country Joe McDonald.
Vietnam War; Army Soldiers; Military; Draft
Registration;
220800
22:34:43 - 22:47:38 1968 USA COL SIL
White House and Riots in D.C. following assassination of
Martin Luther King
South side of White House, fountain in
foreground, flag flying at half mast on White House. Various shots White House. Looking up driveway to front of
White House. Press setting up
lights, cameras and Television cameras near West wing of White House in
circular drive.
22:36:14 CU Lush Cherry blossoms and tulips in full bloom.
22:36:35 CU Police, some wearing
army helmets, and civilians
passing camera
Park policeman in middle of street directing traffic. Riot police standing on sidewalk across street,
22:37:03 MLS Smoke rising from burning buildings in far BG somewhere in
Washington, DC during 1968 riots;
several small shops seen in FG.
22:37:08 Filmed off television screen - riots and aftermath.
22:39:05 Two firemen standing on fire truck next to smoking building. Firefighting on smoking building Rear view, riot policeman standing on
street corner, Black children
leaning against lamp post .
22:40:24 CU Save More Supermarket burned out and gutted. Cash register sitting out in street.
S Fire hoses strung across street, policeman wearing gas mask walks past,
police car drives around corner.
Fire engine with CU red lights spinning.
22:40:46 Interior view, burned out building still smoldering;
22:41:08 Rear view National Guard
jeep with patrol aboard moving down street. Nationial Guard jeeps with armed guards in back up and past.
22:41:20 Tall ladder extended from fire truck, two firemen in FG; one man seen hold
ing guy line, smoke.
Several National Guardsmen grouped on sidewalk outside Safeway Store. Tracking shot past military vehicles
and National Guard marching down street.
Tracking shot past buildings, empty street.
22:42:06 Firemen fighting severe blaze inside paint store in shopping
district. Second fire truck moving
L to R past camera, smoke pours from front of building.
22:42:50 National Guardsman standing in middle of street with rifle. Riot
policemen with riot guns standing near group of black people. Good firefighting scenes at various
locations.
22:44:38 MS 6X truck loaded with National Guardsmen moving off, burned out
buildings seen across street, National Guard ambulance moves and trucks down
street. Various shots aftermath of
fires, gutted shops and buildings, some still smouldering.
National Guardsmen standing at crossroads. Various shots round streets showing National Guard in
evidence and aftermath of riots.
Shopping area with traffic and pedestrians, guard in evidence.
LN 501-677 02:00:04 - 02:14:2 15Oct69 SIL COL
[Demonstrations - Vietnam War Moratorium March, Washington DC 15Oct69]
MCU marchers w/ Calvinist For Peace placard, others across mall w/ US
flags,etc. View toward White House
across Ellipse w/ rows of busses parked,people walking. People standing & cameras &
sitting on top of private bus, Washington Monument behind. Couple in coats & blanket sitting
on empty mall.
02;00:49 Packed crowd on
mall; surrounding Washington Monument, applauding. Speakers platform w/ George McGovern (?) at microphone.
02:01:20 Pete Seeger &
Black man singing; Mitch Miller singing beside them. Others.
02:01:54 VIPs in
suits. Doctor Spock in black
suit. Spock signing
autograph. Others singing &
swaying to music. Coretta King at
microphone.
02:02:49 Marchers on avenue
w/ placards Impudent Snobs for Peace, etc. flags, cameras & many buttons
past camera.
02:06:10 Tilt down
Washington Monument & crowd at base, many people walking past. MSs Seated crowd from high angle. Applauding & chanting.
02:07:11 Men on stage w/
Stop The Trials placards, handing out to crowd.
02:07:27 Large crowd on
mall; man on cross as though crucified.
02:07:49--02:07:51 leader
02:07:51 Marchers along
sidewalk w/ pedestrians w/ names of dead.
02:08:29 Monitor on
radio. People away from
camera on sidewalk along Pennsylvania Avenue. Police line & people on sidewalk outside Justice
Department (?). MS of cameraman on
top of light. Photographers. CU woman on light fixture.
02:09:55 Free All Political
Prisoners poster. People walking
up to Capitol Hill.
02:10:43 Massive crowd on
mall; hands w/ V-sign in air.
02:11:11 Crowd in street
outside Justice Department w/ police; CU sign. People standing around. Marching w/ Stop The Trial placards down avenue; large Spiro
Agnew puppet figue.
02:12:20 Washington
Monument against blue sky, tilit down to massive crowd; crowd singing.
02:13:26 Marchers past
Justice Department. W/ Vietnam
flag. Broken window. Knocking on large metal doors w/ ring
knocker. Tear gas & crowd
moving back. Yelling at door of
Justice Department.
Anti-Vietnam War Protest; 1969; 1960s; Hippies; Demonstration;
Demonstrators; Americanism;
Demonstrators w/ panchos, coats, some gas masks, milling about guys arguing; Vietnam & US flags . Helmets w/ Press, Red Cross. Men loading stretcher into ambulance. Street w/ demonstrators walking & running along ast camera.
04:02:04 Military Police in motorcade of jeeps past sign: 12:40 am Nov 14. 31F.
04:02:53 Balding man (Dr. Benjamin Spock) & others leading candle-light parade (grainy due to low-light). Black woman w/ model of white dove. Line of drummers past leading line of people w/ names of Vietnam War dead.
04:05:10 Slate (illegible). Tent over organizational table; CUs of people. Marchers w/ candles & names.
04:06:12 LS line of marchers w/ candles along street; crossing intersection w/ parade marshalls & flashlights holding traffic.
04:07:09 slug
04:07:20 Spectators w/ banners: Stop The War Against Vietnam & Black America; Vietnam flag; Peace banner. People jumping up & down w/ red flags.
04:08:42 Marchers past cameramen, many w/ helmets; silhouetted shots. Group of black marchers. People running past.
04:09:55 Police line. Dark, flag. People walking past. Intersection. Vans or ambulance, man lying on ground.
LN 501-695 04:11:14 - 04:21:42 1969 COL SIL [Vietnam Moratorium Day, Night Demonstration - 14Nov69]
04:11:34 Intersection, cars moving. Large number of Riot Police w/ helmets past camera. Beside bus arresting & loading. Tear gas fired in Commerce Building entranceway. Cloud of gas behind policeman. Cannisters exploding. Policemen w/ guns loading tear gas. Policeman moves towards camera.
04:13:23 Empty street w/ little traffic & trash in gutter. Man talking to police. Overturned folding tables along street, police moving past. Burning trash in street & on sidewalk at intersection. Police firing tear gas. Motorcade of military police past. Policemen moving forward w/ gas masks & riiot batons, camera follows. Police arresting young men. Woman treated for tear gas at police patrol van.
04:16:12 Police w/ arrestees near Lincoln Memorial, taking names & putting into van, leave w/ broken windshield visible.
04:17:59 Slate: Commerce Bldg. to Lincoln Memorial. Lentini, Roll 4 via Constitution Ave.
04:18:16 Parade marshall w/ walkie talkie.
04:18:36 Slate: Kramer 13Nov69 Roll 1 Marchers w/ names of Vietnam dead past Parade Marshall.
04:19:12 Turning in names at end of march & putting into coffin, walk past w/ candles. Drummers playing snare drums.
04:20:07 Speakers stand w/ banner: Peace Is Patriotic, Washington Monument behind. Two demonstrators w/ placards: They Are Our Brothers Whom We Kill; Grieve For All The Victims...; 46000 Americans How Many Vietnamese?.
04:20:45 Marchers w/ names past, lighted Capitol Dome behind. Man gathering name cards.
CL 221379 00:50:29
- 01:07:08 197? B/W SD St.
Louis, Missouri; The
McDonnell Film Pt. 1 of 2
F-15? fighter jets take off, in flight w/
bombs & rockets. POV in
cockpit, CU hand on stick to drop bombs; bombs dropping nseen from beneath.
00:51:01
Building w/ windows blown out.
Neighborhood w/ houses w/o windows, vacant lots. Fighter jet low.
00:51:14
Title: The McDonnell Film
00:51:18
Man talking about ROTC & going into Army, then talking about being
interviewed by Emerson as a junior engineer. Int. of drafting room; man on computer & main
frame. Back to man talking about
being laid off after 14 years & being told by Emerson that he could go to
work for McDonnell on a loan program.
00:52:50
Black man sitting on badly aged front stoop talking about being an
utility worker, a construction man in a variety of jobs - 90% are black. Secretary at McDonnell talking about
her job.
00:53:32
MCU at selectric typewriter.
Women at main frame computers. Women at electronics assembly benches in factory. Secretary at selectric. Draftsman talking about being sent back
to Emerson & then being laid off.
00:55:04
Secretary: ÒOur society is
so inbred w/ the idea that women canÕt do certain things, that blacks canÕt do
certain things, tht Cubans or Mexicans or Puerto Ricans or any non-white is
inferior to the White male...Ó
Black talking about problem of not being able to upgrade. McDonnell draftsman talking about
sending out 1500 letters & 4 interviews, two were cancelled.
00:56:54
Man interviewed in living room sitting next to wife talks about lack of
work when war slowed down.
00:57:34
Man sitting on park bench talking about lack of jobs in St. Louis;
numerical controlled machining has replaced three out of four people who had
run the machines. Man in living
room about difficulty getting a job.
Wife talks about writing letters to Congressman for help in getting the
F-15 contract just before Christmas, then what it meant to them. Pan over furnishings in house. Exterior of suburban home. CU of woman talking about what they
bought at Christmas and security of job.
Got home to find telegram that husband had been laid off.
01:03:00
Flag pole & kids leaving school. Going into shoping center or department store. Windows & reflections. Woman talking about meaning of Vietnam
War & conversion against the war in 1971. Pan over empty shopping center parking lot. Views of strip-mall stores, lines of
gasoline stations. CU gas sign
28.9 regular. GOOD.
01:05:04
Housing development of small homes. Tract housing.
Weeds beside road.
01:05:30
Vietnamese men & women planting rice.
01:05:48
FIghter bomber overhead.
Destroyed church from inside.
Fighters overhead; people run from paddies to ditch. Men firing small machine guns from
stands in field. Woman ringing
alarm chime; people running from wooden open building of school, into
trenches. Babies lowered in
baskets. Kids into air raid
shelters.
Peace Movement; Anti-Vietnam War; Capitalism;
Military Economics; Racism; Propaganda;
CL 221379 01:07:08
- 01:16:52 197? B/W SD St.
Louis, Missouri; The
McDonnell Film Pt. 2 of 2
Veteran talks of enlisting in 1966, misguided patriotism or nationalism;
socialized by system. Figher jet
being armed, taxiing out; planes on carrier; dropping napalm.
01:08:52 VP of Teamsters, Mr.
Gibbons speaks about war in Vietnam.
anti-war demonstrations.
01:09:52 McDonnell /Emerson
draftsman talking about rationalizing his job.
01:10:10 Guy sitting in park
talking about his work at McDonnell and work on spacecraft; thought he wasnÕt
part of it as he wasnÕt working on airplanes. Then was working on military aircraft & by then opposed
to the war. Left & went to
work for Veterans Administration where the reality was understood.
01:12:08 Planes bombing trucks in
practice seen from close up.
McDonnell present
promotional film w/ napalm behind titles; plane dropping bombs w/ title The
Free WorldÕs Phantom II (seen at work lunch hour). Draftsman talks about talking w/ others at McDonnell &
how they felt about it:
Ò...most...were unwilling to discuss it...if they were peace
oriented...Ó Black talking. Gibbons talking about military -
industrial group. 01:13:34 -
01:13:48 Airplanes on factory
floor. Gibbons says its to
detriment of American people because of diverting money to war.
01:14:06 Enormous power plant or
?? w/ six smoke stacks. Other
older factory buildings.
01:14:33 People sitting outside
decaying housing; broken windows.
Large brick & stone apartments w/ kids out front. Gibbons re corporation & quest for profits. Modern St. Louis building; Monsanto
sign on top of plant; Anheuser - Busch sign on top of brewery. Cheverolet sign outside factory. First National Bank in St. Louis
Stadium Drive-In. Emerson Electric
factory w/ sign. Ralston Purina
factory & checkerboard sign.
01:16;02 Large McDonnell hanger w/
sign above door, workers across tarmac in front. Veteran talking about corporate interests being put above
interests of people.
01:16:29 Alley w/ tenements on
both sides, boy walking away & junk.
The End.
Peace Movement; Anti-Vietnam War; Anti-Capitalism; Military Economics; Racism;
Propaganda;
CL 221381 04:17:15
- 04:42:31 1970 B/W SD You
DonÕt Have To Buy War, Mrs Smith
(opening missing)
Angie Brook-Randolph (later Liberian
Ambassador to United Nations) at microphone at launch of Mothers for Peace
document. Bess Myerson Grant
introduced & at podium in San Francisco Hilton at the 1970 World MotherÕs
Day Assembly of Another Mother For Peace.
04:18:06
ÒI have a great sense of pride sharing this day w/ all of you...Ó Talks about meeting w/ Senators in
Washington in 1969 for a bill for peace.
How now there are two wars:
Vietnam & Cambodia.
Discusses Kent State killings; choice of college or Cambodia etc. Calls for 18 year old right to vote.
04:21:59
ÒLet me tell you something about NixonÕs silent majority...the term
refers to Homer and the dead...Ó
04:23:41
ÒIÕve been telling people of my city, congressional committees &
others...that you donÕt have to put up w/ shoddy products in the market place,
and I feel the same way about shoddy policies: you donÕt have to buy the
cliches of peace-keeping actions...you donÕt have to buy war, Mrs. Smith.Ó
04:28:40
Talks about disposal of nerve gas & dumping in Atlantic Ocean. Biological warfare & Defense
Department research on Botulism Toxin & germ warfare; testing of gas
weapons for riot control at Berkeley & lung damage.
04:30:40
Talks about white phosphorus & other bombs such as HoneywellÕs
anti-personnel fragmentation bomb to be used against civilians. About nuclear bombs stockpiled by USA
& expansion w/ MIRV.
04:33:25
ÒHow many times over do we have to kill everyone on GodÕs green
earth...Ó Talks about South
Carolina & nuclear accidents & possible transportation accidents. Map of bombs & chemical test areas
in the USA.
04:35:40
Ò...the enemies are hunger and despair. The enemy is polluted water & polluted air...Ó Gives contract amounts for various
defense products.
04:39:00
Compares cyclomates, thalomide, DDT being removed for safety reasons to
buying war. Calls on General
Motors to make a car that wonÕt pollute our air; other companies to get out fo
the war business.
04:41:25
Ò...war profits are without honor in this desparate time...Ó
Speeches; Former Miss America; WomenÕs Power;
LIberation; Anti-War Activists; Anti-Nuclear War; 1960s; 1970s; Vietnam War;
Cambodian War; Capitalism; Global Corporations; Ecology; Environment; Politics;
CL 221380 02:57:43 - 03:15:36 1971 Ft.
Dix, New Jersey; B/W Sd
AWOL aka Army
Guy sitting on grass saying what he was told when he went into the
Army.
02:58:12 Drill sergeant
talking to recruits.
Unpacking. In line waiting
in shorts, examination by doctor.
Getting hair shaved off.
Taking shower. Issued
uniforms; listening in line.
03:00:25 Rifle
inspection. Men laying on bunk
beds; stills of calisthenics. Gas
chamber tests. Pictures of gas
effects.
03:01:18 Army recruit in
park talking to camera. Bayonet
drill, CUs. Bayonet training w/ VO of being
assigned mess kits.
03:03:03 Still photographs
of basic training, marching etc.
03:03:34 Burning huts in
Vietnam & Vietnamese crying.
Lead off by military. US
army in Vietnam. Vietnamese army
& Viet Cong being waved off by villagers. Poling boats thru swamp grass & fighting.
03:05:07 Montage of US
landing craft w/ toops out; aircraft carrier & planes taking off; ammo
dump; fighter jets past; reconnaissance patrol; wounded GIs treated;
helicopters; napalm drops; B-52 bombers dropping. Bodies.
Explosions; strafing; firing rifles. Westmoreland & officers. Army out of wrecked US helicopter in water. Army field hospital.
03:07:23 Trailer of flag
draped coffins; men carry coffins.
03;07:42 Globe w/ flags
stuck in & turned, more & more US flags.
03:08:01 Vietnamese driving
bulldozer, unloading lumber.
Soldiers as riot control.
Planning For Riot Control.
Various shots of military w/ fixed bayonets down street, drilling. (NO MUSIC RIGHTS).
03:09:16 Army riot control
outside Chicago Convention Center?
Anti-Vietnam demonstration w/ placards. People in San Francisco State marching up hallway. Demonstrators sitting on ground. Soldiers in trucks past.
03:10:25 Night &
fires. Day & bunred out
businesses; army in front of buildings.
03:10:52 Floor of stock
exchange. Ticker tape; Board. TV crews & demonstrators; Army soldiers drilling &
barbed wire(negative); newspaper :
Vietnam GI Stateside Edition.
Placards & posters in CU.
Anti-Army demonstration - Free the Ft. Dix 38 & demonstration
speaker. Marching along road. w/
Free Military Political prisoners along Ft. Dix road lined w/ troops. MPs running; backing up from
protestors. Veternas marching in
cities. Various publications supporting military resistance. End.
Anti-Vietnam War; Capitalism; Resistance; 1960s; 1970s;
CL 221379 01:07:08 - 01:16:52 197? St. Louis, Missouri; B/W SD
The McDonnell Film Pt. 2 of
2
Veteran talks of enlisting in 1966, misguided patriotism or nationalism;
socialized by system. Figher jet
being armed, taxiing out; planes on carrier; dropping napalm.
01:08:52 VP of Teamsters,
Mr. Gibbons speaks about war in Vietnam.
anti-war demonstrations.
01:09:52 McDonnell /Emerson
draftsman talking about rationalizing his job.
01:10:10 Guy sitting in
park talking about his work at McDonnell and work on spacecraft; thought he
wasnÕt part of it as he wasnÕt working on airplanes. Then was working on military aircraft & by then opposed
to the war. Left & went to
work for Veterans Administration where the reality was understood.
01:12:08 Planes bombing
trucks in practice seen from close up.
McDonnell present
promotional film w/ napalm behind titles; plane dropping bombs w/ title
The Free WorldÕs Phantom II (seen at work lunch hour). Draftsman talks about talking w/ others
at McDonnell & how they felt about it: Ò...most...were unwilling to discuss it...if they were peace
oriented...Ó Black talking. Gibbons talking about military -
industrial group. 01:13:34 -
01:13:48 Airplanes on factory
floor. Gibbons says its to
detriment of American people because of diverting money to war.
01:14:06 Enormous power
plant or ?? w/ six smoke stacks.
Other older factory buildings.
01:14:33 People sitting
outside decaying housing; broken windows.
Large brick & stone apartments w/ kids out front. Gibbons re corporation & quest for profits. Modern St. Louis building; Monsanto
sign on top of plant; Anheuser - Busch sign on top of brewery. Cheverolet sign outside factory. First National Bank in St. Louis
Stadium Drive-In. Emerson Electric
factory w/ sign. Ralston Purina
factory & checkerboard sign.
01:16;02 Large McDonnell
hanger w/ sign above door, workers across tarmac in front. Veteran talking about corporate
interests being put above interests of people.
01:16:29 Alley w/ tenements
on both sides, boy walking away & junk. The End.
Peace Movement; Anti-Vietnam War; Anti-Capitalism; Military Economics;
Racism; Propaganda;
221379 00:50:29 - 01:07:08 197? St.
Louis, Missouri; B/W SD
The McDonnell Film Pt. 1 of
2
F-15? fighter jets take off, in flight w/ bombs & rockets. POV in cockpit, CU hand on stick to
drop bombs; bombs dropping nseen from beneath.
00:51:01 Building w/ windows
blown out. Neighborhood w/ houses
w/o windows, vacant lots. Fighter
jet low.
00:51:14 Title: The McDonnell Film
00:51:18 Man talking about
ROTC & going into Army, then talking about being interviewed by Emerson as
a junior engineer. Int. of drafting
room; man on computer & main frame.
Back to man talking about being laid off after 14 years & being told
by Emerson that he could go to work for McDonnell on a loan program.
00:52:50 Black man sitting
on badly aged front stoop talking about being an utility worker, a construction
man in a variety of jobs - 90% are black.
Secretary at McDonnell talking about her job.
00:53:32 MCU at selectric
typewriter. Women at main frame
computers. Women at
electronics assembly benches in factory.
Secretary at selectric.
Draftsman talking about being sent back to Emerson & then being laid
off.
00:55:04 Secretary: ÒOur society is so inbred w/ the idea
that women canÕt do certain things, that blacks canÕt do certain things, tht
Cubans or Mexicans or Puerto Ricans or any non-white is inferior to the White
male...Ó Black talking about
problem of not being able to upgrade.
McDonnell draftsman talking about sending out 1500 letters & 4
interviews, two were cancelled.
00:56:54 Man interviewed in
living room sitting next to wife talks about lack of work when war slowed down.
00:57:34 Man sitting on
park bench talking about lack of jobs in St. Louis; numerical controlled
machining has replaced three out of four people who had run the machines. Man in living room about difficulty
getting a job. Wife talks about
writing letters to Congressman for help in getting the F-15 contract just
before Christmas, then what it meant to them. Pan over furnishings in house. Exterior of suburban home. CU of woman talking about what they bought at Christmas and
security of job. Got home to find
telegram that husband had been laid off.
01:03:00 Flag pole &
kids leaving school. Going into
shoping center or department store.
Windows & reflections.
Woman talking about meaning of Vietnam War & conversion against the
war in 1971. Pan over empty
shopping center parking lot. Views
of strip-mall stores, lines of gasoline stations. CU gas sign 28.9
regular. GOOD.
01:05:04 Housing
development of small homes. Tract
housing. Weeds beside road.
01:05:30 Vietnamese men
& women planting rice.
01:05:48 FIghter bomber
overhead. Destroyed church from
inside. Fighters overhead; people
run from paddies to ditch. Men
firing small machine guns from stands in field. Woman ringing alarm chime; people running from wooden open
building of school, into trenches.
Babies lowered in baskets.
Kids into air raid shelters.
Peace Movement; Anti-Vietnam War; Capitalism; Military Economics;
Racism; Propaganda;
X 221269 21:56:11
- 22:06:08 1973 COL SD Moscow World
Congress of Peace Forces: Peace To
You Our Planet Earth Pt 1 of 5
25-31Oct73 Scenics: sky, clouds, waterfall, exotic beach,
aerials of nice country side fields, river, woods. Beautiful sunset over lake. Little girl play w/ ant(?) on her hand. Birds fly over lake.
21:57:37 War scenes in Middle
East, bombs, explosions, building on fire, dead bodies, huge smoke goes up in
the air (Yom Kippur War). War in
Cambodia, two young boys cover their ears. Buildings on fire in Northern Ireland. Protesters in masks, glasses. Police w/ dogs. Scenes of atrocities from Rhodesia,
South Africa, Mozambique. Police fire tear gas into protesting
crowds. Officers kick captured
black guys. Black woman screams,
tries to hit policeman. Collapsed
guy pulled by arms. Injured
Protesters..
21:59:03 Close ups of different
national people, destroyed cities.
Various demonstrations ÒUS out of VietnamÓ. Winter & newly weds pay respects at war memorial (?).
22:06:16 25Oct73 Representatives of more than 1000
organizations, parties, movements from 143 countries walk in Moscow street
during World Congress of Peace Forces.
Various nationality people walk down street together, enter Kremlin
Palace. Introduction speeches by
delegates from Scotland, Vietnam, Leningrad, Japan, Kenya, India, US, Cuba,
Ethiopia.
22:03:55 Congress begins. Leaders
of national and international peace organizations, all stand & applaud on
stage. Soviet Communist party
& Government leaders w/ Brezhnev as guests of honor.
22:04:33 Speech by International
proprietary committee chairman, R. Chandra(?) (SoF). People watch Congress on television. Audience listen w/ ear phones, make
notes. All rise & applaud.
Anti-Vietnam War; Communist Peace
Conference; Vietnamese War; 1970s; Cold War; Communism; Propaganda; Delegates;
Inhumanity;
221226 10:40:07
- 10:51:09 1960s
[late] COL&B/W SD 12-12-42
A film by Bernard Stone, Tom McDonough &
Dick Gerendasy / Produced for Xanadu Films
Summary:
Collage animation & archival footage used in bizarre anti-Vietnam
War musical montage film - aspiring actress Mimi Sarner [born 12Dec42]
discusses her childhood, opinions on world events & general musings about
life over often surrealistic montages of stills, stock footage & animation
[by Oscar-winning artist Carmen DÕAvino] covering subjects inc. WWII, Cold War,
Civil Rights, Vietnam & speeches by LBJ, McNamara et al. Sarner breaks into song at times
declaring she wants to be a singer, then reads poetry over shots of Vietnamese
war atrocities while making observations like ÒweÕre all capable of
killingÓ. Very much of its time.
[Impossible to shotlist in full.]
Oddities; Pacifism; Anti-War Protests;
Agitprop; NYC Art Scene; Independent Filmmakers; Liberals; 1960s;
Pro- Vietnam War
221340 14:38:09
- 14:39:10 1967 B/W SD New
York City; NYC Thousands
Parade To Support NationÕs Soldiers In Vietnam
New York City Police color guard w/ flags leading parade to salutes from WWII
veterans on reviewing stand. Crowd
along Central Park w/ flags & cameras. Chuck Conners leads group of boys w/ flags. Protesters w/ signs on sidelines behind
police barricades. Good scuffle or
fight w/ anti-Vietnam protester broken up after oil & feathers poured on
him. Communist flags burning. Teamster Truck w/ people &
sign: Commies Go To Hell.
American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Pro-Vietnam Involvement Parade;
Anti-Vietnam Sign; Anti-Communists; Anti-Communism; Cold War; Vietnam War;
Homefront; Right Wing Patriotism; Anti-War;
221388 17:00:01
- 17:10:00 1972
(?); 1960s; COL SD Vietnam!
Vietnam! Pt. 1 of 5
John Ford presents... Narrated by
Charlton Heston Prod by USIA Dir. Sherman Beck; Prod. John
Hynd; Exec. Prod. John Ford
Narration over black about 1960s, then stills.
17:01:03 Titles. Part One - Vietnam: The People And The War
17:02:01 Woman w/ naked child
washing him beside muddy water of
??. CU barbed wire. Tiled roof w/ Christian Cross on top,
seen from above & behind.
Village; Jungle; Wire intercut.
17:02:57 Night anti-Vietnam War
demonstration & montage of signs; placards; pigÕs head.
17:03:21 Pres. Kennedy ÒI think we face an extremely serious
& intensified struggle w/ the Communists...Ó re Vietnam at press
conference.
17:04:10 Incense burning &
candles lighted in Vietnam Buddhist ceremony. Monks; gong; large Roman Catholic church in South Vietnam,
people leaving church.
17:05:51 CU baskets of vegetables
etc. on shoulder poles thru crowded street market. Daily life, women, children, men. Street scnes w/ scooters, taxiis & traffic. Park w/ pond, bridge & couple
feeding carp. Kid swimming in
river or canal by edge of rice field.
17:07:20 CU faces woman & boy
working in field; duckings; women & men pulling rice plants &
planting. CU hands in water.
17:08:40 Throwing fishing nets
from small boats. Boys & girls
walking to school; women walking.
Farm woman carrying straw on pole.
CU people eating rice outdoors.
Religion; Vietnamese Daily LIfe; 1960s; Pro-American Vietnam War Propaganda;
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