Visit to a Liberation Force Unit

Documentary coverage of the visit of two foreign journalists to a South Vietnam National Liberation Front Army Unit where they learn about the everyday lives of these revolutionaries. Features footage of Liberation Front troops being trained in the use of arms and in making and setting crude booby traps, as well as being taught how to harvest their own grain, tend animals and grow vegetables. Also includes scenes of troops demonstrating how used weapons and materials abandoned by the US Army can be re-used, for example making soles for sandals from old tires.

Credits

Cast: Riffaud, Madeleine; Burchett, Wilfred (1911-1983); Thép Hồng (camera); Riffaud, Madeleine, On-screen participant; Burchett, Wilfred G., 1911-1983, On-screen participant

Complete catalog record

Alternate title: Dên thăm đơn vị quân giải phóng miền nam Viêt-nam. English.
Original source: Reproduction of: Dên thăm đơn vị quân giải phóng miền nam Viêt-nam North Vietnam, 1965. 16mm Comb col pos. | The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-504019. | Contributors: Thép Hồng. | Production Company: Liberation Film Studios.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:20:17) : sound, black and white | monochrome
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Journalists | Soldiers | Journalists | Vietnam War (1955-1975) | Women | Lifestyle | Wars | Imperialism | Children | Agriculture and farming | Food | Communism | Air raids | Colonialism | Guerrilla warfare | Revolutions | Weapons | Peasants | Anti-American sentiments | Bombing | Journalism | Propaganda | South Vietnam | USA (United States of America) | France | Vietnam | Documentary | 1954-1975 | Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam -- Military life | Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam | 1961-1975

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