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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  - Southampton University Monday Club - Stop Vietcong Terror  etc.
LS Police a standing by & police vans.  Looking down over dense crowd of Anti-American protesters with North Vietnamese flag & banner Susses Univ. -   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 We Are With You Vietnam.
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 - Vietnam will win 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;

  LN 501-695            04:00:00 - 04:11:02            1969            COL            SIL            [Vietnam Moratorium Day, Night Demonstration - 14Nov69] 
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:  Our society is so inbred w/ the idea that women cant do certain things, that blacks cant do certain things, tht Cubans or Mexicans or Puerto Ricans or any non-white is inferior to the White male...  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 wasnt part of it as he wasnt 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 Worlds Phantom II (seen at work lunch hour).  Draftsman talks about talking w/ others at McDonnell & how they felt about it:  ...most...were unwilling to discuss it...if they were peace oriented...  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 Dont 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 Mothers Day Assembly of Another Mother For Peace.
04:18:06  I have a great sense of pride sharing this day w/ all of you...  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  Let me tell you something about Nixons silent majority...the term refers to Homer and the dead...
04:23:41  Ive been telling people of my city, congressional committees & others...that you dont have to put up w/ shoddy products in the market place, and I feel the same way about shoddy policies: you dont have to buy the cliches of peace-keeping actions...you dont have to buy war, Mrs. Smith.
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 Honeywells anti-personnel fragmentation bomb to be used against civilians.  About nuclear bombs stockpiled by USA & expansion w/ MIRV.
04:33:25  How many times over do we have to kill everyone on Gods green earth...  Talks about South Carolina & nuclear accidents & possible transportation accidents.  Map of bombs & chemical test areas in the USA.
04:35:40  ...the enemies are hunger and despair.  The enemy is polluted water & polluted air...  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 wont pollute our air; other companies to get out fo the war business.
04:41:25  ...war profits are without honor in this desparate time...
Speeches; Former Miss America; Womens 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 wasnt part of it as he wasnt 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 Worlds Phantom II (seen at work lunch hour).  Draftsman talks about talking w/ others at McDonnell & how they felt about it:  ...most...were unwilling to discuss it...if they were peace oriented...  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:  Our society is so inbred w/ the idea that women cant do certain things, that blacks cant do certain things, tht Cubans or Mexicans or Puerto Ricans or any non-white is inferior to the White male...  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 US out of Vietnam.  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 DAvino] 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 were all capable of killing.  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 Nations 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; pigs head.
17:03:21  Pres. Kennedy  I think we face an extremely serious & intensified struggle w/ the Communists... 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 scenes 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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