Miscellaneous footage relating to US Cold War relations with Communist states 1950-1962.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

• Module I

Language:

English

Genre:

• Internet videos.
• Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (video file 0:19:22) : Sound, Black and White.

Place of Publication:

• 1950-1962.
• Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2011.

Summary:

Map of world highlighting Communist countries. Close-up frontier between north and south Korea. 1950, Korea. Woman working in field. Sound of blast can be heard. Cut to soldiers running in trenches, firing rifles and machine guns. Back to map showing divide between Communist north and non-Communist south Korea. United Nations Security Council filled with delegates. Cut to military vessel with armed troops from many nations filing out to help the South Koreans. General Douglas McArthur steps off plan and greets people on ground. Footage of stormy sea. Officials look through binoculars as army vehicles drive through water on beach. Tanks demonstrate flame throwing. Scenes of fighting and tanks. UN army (mainly from US) herding captured civilian prisoners in North Korea. Chinese troops entering Korea to lend support to Commuist fight. Close up of Chinese soldiers. Planes dropping bombs. Soldiers firing missiles from ground. Images of Korean refugees feeling warzone. Korean officials in uniform. Camera pans through graveyard of white wooden crosses. Back to map of world showing alliance of SEATO and CENTO forming a ring around Communist countries. Communist soldiers marching in formation. Tanks and armed military vehicles pass through streets. 1959, USA. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev with President Dwight D. Eisenhower smiling for cameras. 1960, Paris. Khrushchev leaving summit conference in open-top car. Western leaders following suit. Press conference. At microphone, Khrushchev launches 'violent tirade' against Americans, shouting and gesticulating. Applause. 1961, Washington D.C. Exterior shot of White House. Photograph of John F. Kennedy and footage of tanks as his speech about the Cold War is heard. US Air Force planes, plane taking off from aircraft carrier, US submarine. Russian tanks driving through streets as crowds look on, demonstrating Russia's military strength. More footage of aircraft and submarines. Image of cloud caused by hydrogen bombs. President Eisenhower sitting at his desk. Close-up of button that signals US nuclear weapons to be launched. Map of world zooming in on Cuba. 1962. Footage of rockets being sent to Cuba from Russia by sea. US Navy forming blockade. US aircraft flying overhead, shot of pilots.

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed on 16 November, 2018).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.