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F05284

Saigon: Khanh press conference

2/2/1964

GENF0895

0:39

Recall: 137A690U2

B/W mute - 24 feet/0:39

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various interior shots showing journalists at a press conference as Lt-General Nguyen Khanh and his principal South Vietnamese army colleagues arrive in the conference room, various of Khanh speaking to the present: also present wearing glasses is the South Vietnamese army chief of staff, General Tran Van Minh.

Lt-General Nguyen Khanh, South Vietnam's new strong man, holds a press conference in Saigon.

F04349

Saigon: Anti-Communist Demonstration (sic)

21/7/1964

GENF0837

1:17

Recall: 1Q821U2

B/W mute - 48 feet/1:17

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots of Vietnamese civilians taking part in a pro-government demonstration held on 19th July 1964 in the centre of Saigon - the banners held by marchers and hung from buildings read 'We ask the Free World to come to our help in our North War March", "July 20th - our day of shame" and several anti-Chinese slogans.

Various shots of General Nguyen Khanh, the current South Vietnamese strong man, and other military leaders attending a ceremony with the US ambassador Maxwell Taylor, and a wreath-laying ceremony.

Various shots of the South Vietnamese army chief of staff, General Tran Van Minh, making a speech.

Various shots of Vietnamese youths riding on a motorised rickshaw carrying effigies of General de Gaulle and Ho Chi Minh and demonstrating in front of a part-vandalised French First World War memorial with placards in French reading 'Down with de Gaulle'.

Storyline: At a rally held on 19th July 1964 that coincided with the tenth anniversary of the signing of the 1954 Geneva Accords which divided Vietnam in two, the South Vietnamese regime whips up anti-French and anti-North Vietnamese opinion.

F02522

S. Vietnam: Ranger patrol

15/8/1964

GENF0700

0:33

Recall: 1Q290U2

B/W mute - 20 feet/0:33

Syndication

Various shots of soldiers belonging to a South Vietnamese (ARVN = Army of the Republic of South Vietnam) Rangers unit armed with M-1 carbines with fixed bayonets looking for Viet Cong in rice-growing country and discovering a dead body lying face down in a paddy field..

Various of three Vietnamese Rangers looking at and examining the body of a male Vietnamese lying on his back.

Brief shot of two Rangers dragging another corpse out of a drainage ditch.

Storyline: South Vietnamese troops from an elite unit trained by the Americans track down Viet Cong guerrillas.

F05916

Saigon: Racial Riots

31/8/1964

GENF0931

0:57

Recall: 137A761U2

B/W mute - 36 feet/0:57

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Various shots showing youths in a street in Saigon's Cholon District after a riot against the city's Chinese community, a Vietnamese soldier comforts a small child, various shots of a woman being filmed as she mourns a relative killed in the rioting and other Chinese mourners standing by a row of bodies wrapped in shrouds, the victims of anti-Chinese riots.

Various shots of youths armed with sticks, metal poles and other objects in a street in the Cholon district of Saigon and hurling furniture and lumps of wood at the police during a riot, South Vietnamese troops with fixed bayonets advancing on the rioters to disperse them.

Storyline: Anti-Chinese rioters take to the streets of Saigon to attack Chinese-owned properties during a period of chronic political unrest in the South Vietnamese capital.

F02734

Vietnam: Army success against Commies (sic)

18/9/1964

GENF0726

0:42

Recall: 1Q781U2

B/W mute - 26 feet/0:42

1 roll - dupe neg

Syndication

Shots of a display organised for journalists at a South Vietnamese army barracks showing two male Viet Cong (VC) suspects, seen crouching on the ground looking fearful, and captured VC weaponry - a miscellany of bolt-action rifles, light machine-guns, a 57mm recoilless rifle and ammunition and a French-designed MAT-49 sub machine gun.

Storyline: To boost its own morale and prestige, the South Vietnamese army displays the results of one of its modest successes against the communist Viet Cong guerrillas.