| Protest, Protest, Protest | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1758 |
| Catalog #: | 425721 | |
| Clip Number: | 425721-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 040-019-07 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Vietnam, Saigon | |
| Year Shot: | 1967 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CROWDS: Demonstrators DEMONSTRATIONS: Misc. LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Germany LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Italy, Rome LOCATIONS/SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela LOCATIONS/SOUTHEAST ASIA: Vietnam (Indochina), South Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) | |
| Description: | Catholics and South Vietnamese refugees protest in the streets of Saigon protesting the intervention of foreign peace makers. The demonstrators insisted on the destruction of all Communist elements by force before peace can be achieved. Effigies of Ho Chi Minh are burned while in contrast Pope Paul IV has pleaded several times for the start of peace talks. In Venezuela the Central University of Caracas has closed indefinitely after a week long demonstrations by some twenty-six-thousand students protesting occupations by soldiers and police, and investigation of Communist and subversive activities on the campus. Gas company workers in Rome stage a sit down strike in the middle of the street demanding higher pay. Police move in quickly but traffic was blocked for one hour. The day before noble Romans were forced to walk to and from their jobs because of a transport and electric workers strike. In Munich Germany, Helmut Ventor strikes terror into the hearts of Lufthansa pilots using potato dumplings for ammunition. Noisy jet planes kept buzzing Ventor's house so he countered with his own version of an anti aircraft battery. He has fired up to 120 homemade k-noodle or dumplings on a specially busy weekend. The firing range is about 180 feet, not enough to hit them but enough to scare them says Ventor. Establishing shot - Demonstrators marching in the streets of Saigon holding torches. CU - Vietnamese man praying holding a Rosary. CU - Two Vietnamese dolls of an older man and woman. CU - A laughing Vietnamese woman. CU - A large bon-fire and there are dolls in the fire being burned in effigies. Caracas, Venezuela hundreds of students pushing down a fence. MS - A crowd of protesting students. In Rome, Italy hundreds of men sitting down in the middle of the street holding up banners printed in Italian. CU - An Italian man blowing a whistle. MS - The police politely helping the men to their feet. Establishing shot - Mr. Ventor sitting with his catapult and Dachshund- dog firing away at the airliners flying overhead. MS - A pot of potato dumplings cooking over a fire in the back yard. CU - Dachshund dog. Low Angle Shot - Lufthansa airliner flying over head. MS - Ventor setting his potato dumpling catapult, loading it with a potato dumpling and firing. MS - Mr. Ventor's Dachshund retrieving the potato dumpling. | |
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