Only the Beginning: PT3
Only the Beginning: PT3
Only the Beginning: PT3 - A mix of B/W & color footage documenting the war in Vietnam.
Only the Beginning: PT3
B/W: Aviation air combat montage w/planes flying, shooting guns, dropping bombs, explosions, people fleeing, burning buildings, aftermath damage. MS pan building in a pile of rubble due to bombing. GV pan Buddhist shrine damaged by bombing.
Only the Beginning: PT3
B/W: Great air-to air shot of military airplane flying over Vietnamese farm parcels. POV looking through gun scope of plane. LS pan smoldering building hit by bombs. Quick POV looking through gun scope of plane. Quick POV bomb dropping from plane. GV Vietnamese woman & her young children walking through rubble of destroyed buildings. Low angle view of plane flying. MCUs Vietnamese children w/ severe burn wounds on face & chest. MS pan Vietnamese children lying on hospital beds. Low angle looking up at military planes flying in formation. POV bombs hitting ground as seen from low altitude flying plane.
Only the Beginning: PT3
B/W: GV interior eerie looking classroom void of children, open books on desks flutter from a breeze. MS row of dead Vietnamese children. MCU pan faces of the dead children. CU religious painting & crucifix in wreckage of destroyed Christian church. MS boy sifting through rubble of the church. MS American POW being helped to his feet by two other American prisoners. MCU American pilot (prisoner) walking while someone off screen holds a knife at his throat. CU air force identification card. Air shots of military planes flying, chemtrails, releasing napalm or Agent Orange.
Only the Beginning: PT3
Color: Low altitude tracking shot of Vietnamese landscape as seen from helicopter. B/W: MS pan down stem of charred tree. MS dying duck floating on its back in water. LS pan silhouetted landscape of charred trees.
Only the Beginning: PT3
DO NOT USE: Stills of Vietnamese women w/children.
Only the Beginning: PT3
B/W: MS Vietnamese woman w/ toddler aged child on her lap. GV hospital room w/ nurses & crying child. Several MSs Vietnamese nurses working with toddler aged boy w/ physical deformities (birth defect), born to mother sprayed by defoliants (Agent Orange). CU hands of child w/ physical deformities.
Only the Beginning: PT3
B/W: View of plane. CU foot of child born w/ six toes due to mother's exposure to defoliants (Agent Orange). CU deformed feet of child (birth defect). Air shot of U.S military plane dropping bombs. CUs Vietnamese child born w/ physical deformities (birth defects). MS Vietnamese woman seated on hospital bed holding her infant child born w/ physical deformities due to defoliants. Low angle view of U.S. military plane flying overhead. POV bombs dropping from belly of plane. MCU young Vietnamese boy crying & wiping tears from his eyes. MS Vietnamese children crying, pan to open child size coffin w/ body dressed in cloth. Air shot of U.S. military plane dumping an insane amount of bombs.
Only the Beginning: PT3
B/W montage of North Vietnamese combat: aiming, loading, firing anti-aircraft guns, North Vietnamese running w/ camouflage branches on their backs.