Only the Beginning: PT1
Only the Beginning: PT1
Only the Beginning: PT1 - A mix of B/W & color footage documenting the war in Vietnam.
Only the Beginning: PT1
Color: MS young Vietnam War veteran w/long hair, shaggy beard & wearing sunglasses standing at podium reading his honorable discharge paper to crowd, pan out to GV as he wads the paper up and throws it over wall, crowd cheers. MSs young veterans in jungle green military fatigues angrily throwing their medals & such over fence, protesting the war in Vietnam by tossing their decorations towards US Capitol (Operation Dewey Canyon III).
Only the Beginning: PT1
Color: MS helicopter cockpit w/pilot at controls, lush Vietnam landscape w/dirt road seen below. POV from helicopter of military convoy moving along dirt road. MS helicopter pilot at controls, pan right to view of mountainous Vietnamese landscape.
Only the Beginning: PT1
B/W: TLS American GIs walking through tall grass. LS GIs approaching thatch roof home. MS armed soldier cautiously entering thatched roof house. MS soldier crawling out of underground bunker. GV American GIs apprehending Vietnamese man, tying his hands behind his back. MS soldier tying blindfold over eyes of Viet Cong man in custody. Color: MS soldier placing hood over Vietnamese woman in custody. MS tank w/ "War is Hell" written on it rolling past camera.
Only the Beginning: PT1
B/W: TLS Vietnamese women & children walking along path. MS American GIs setting fire to Vietnamese village. MSs houses engulfed in flames. MCU distraught Vietnamese woman crying while holding infant in her arms. MS distraught Vietnamese man lifting his naked infant. MS distraught Vietnamese women w/their children.
Only the Beginning: PT1
DO NOT USE: MS veteran speaking about racism behind the war.
Only the Beginning: PT1
B/W: MS American soldier having target practice w/ targets that look like Viet Cong military officer. Various shots of Vietnamese men & women fleeing by row boat, carrying belongings, pulling carts. MSs dead bodies of Vietnamese in boat, American GI walk by.
Only the Beginning: PT1
DO NOT USE: Still photo of dead Vietnamese woman. MS veteran speaking about racism behind the war.
Only the Beginning: PT1
B/W Vietnamese Hospital: MS nurse wrapping leg wound of man in Vietnamese hospital. MS doctor wrapping wound of child amputee. MS doctor examining glands of young boy seated on woman's lap. MCU doctor / nurse in scrubs. MCU person w/ eyes bandaged & severe burns over entire chest. MSs wounded being moved.
Only the Beginning: PT1
DO NOT USE: Veteran speaking about the war.
Only the Beginning: PT1
B/W: LS aftermath of apparent massacre, GIs standing over bodies on the ground. MCU American military officials conversing. GV soldiers standing over bodies on the ground.
Only the Beginning: PT1
DO NOT USE: Veteran speaking about the war.