FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

High angle WS of fields with LS of Vietnamese farmers harvesting. VS farmers harvesting by hand. VS woman tapping tree for rubber collecting. VS boats working busy river. VS women sitting with their fruit and vegetable produce at markets. GS woman counting money in banknotes. MS elderly woman holding up her fingers. MS Vietnamese man shovelling peanuts into basket by hand then filling hessian sack, women at village well and people walking along road carrying implements over their shoulders. Quicktime clip available.

RAAF helicopter flying over head with rifle aimed out of door. CU of rifle and aerials from helicopter over fields and forests of countryside. Aerials from helicopter over river, fields and forests of countryside South Vietnam as RAAF helicopter comes in to land in village. Helicopter landing with armed military keeping post inside. MS Vietnamese children and VS villagers. WS of Australian army personnel greeting man on lawn in front of church with circle of onlookers watching. WS pan across tents and personnel in military camp set up in South Vietnamese village. GS army jeep driving towards and past camera. Quicktime clip available.

Montage of B&W photographs showing destruction and displacement on Vietnamese villages by the Vietcong targeting community development services. WS pan across abandoned fields. GS peasants driving ox-driven carts loaded with timber and possessions along road and GS peasants walking along roads. VS tank and other military vehicles on tarred roads. GS military truck travelling along busy road emitting clouds of black exhaust fumes. Quicktime clip available.

VS of crowded streets of city centre showing horse-drawn and motorised transport, markets, street life and various signs in both English and Vietnamese. CUs boys playing pool. GS people walking through busy market street and WS heavy street traffic with cars and people riding bicycles in streets of Saigon. VS crowd of motorcycles and tuktuks along roads. VS Vietnamese people in roadside markets selling goods and food. GS woman squatting at edge of street eating from bowl and VS people riding bicycles and rickshaws on street. Quicktime clip available.

VS of signs for clubs and bars and GS women on street. Various street scenes and VS women doing work traditionally done by men such as digging, building and labouring due to shortage of men caused by war. VS traffic. High angle shot over Saigon street with pan to Director of Research & Planning in the Government of the Republic of Vietnam who speaks to camera about the war South Vietnam were fighting and how the government aims to help the country. Quicktime clip available.

WS exterior of government building with zooms to flags flying. Fighter jets flying in formation over head. WS helicopter landing amidst troops and tanks in war zone. VS troops with battalions, MS soldier talking on telephone, army trucks and MS soldier holding machine gun. GS pair of soldiers looking at Vietnamese women's papers. WS soldiers firing from barricades. Quicktime clip available.

VS retraining program at Trung Tam Chieu Hoi with GS of Vietcong sitting in rows outdoors being addressed watched by Australian Major Phillip Burns. MS Burns. VS Australian Major Phillip Burns overseeing Vietcong going through retraining program helping Vietcong learn carpentry. GS Headquarters of the 1st Australian Task Force. MS Task Force Commander Brigadier O.D. Jackson addressing camera about the way the task force helps the people of South Vietnam. 1st Australian Task Force. MS Task Force Commander Brigadier O.D. Jackson addressing camera about the way the task force helps the people of South Vietnam. WS Australian Task Force meeting villagers and CU of soldier talking to three small smiling boys. CU mother and child. MS soldier pouring grain into bowls of queuing villagers and medical officers looking at children. MS medical officer listing to chest of small boy with stethoscope. Quicktime clip available.

WS truck arriving and VS of Civic Action team unloading roofing material to villager who needs to rebuild his home. VS Australian sponsored Vietnamese carpenters at work on new school. VS grader road building. VS Australian team member teaching Vietnamese students in open air classroom. VS children being taken for helicopter ride. Aerial over the children's village Quicktime clip available.

WS coast of Viet Trung with pan from small boat to beach with refugee villagers preparing nylon fishing nets and GS villagers setting up boat. CUs villagers and child sewing nylon. WS villagers setting net in sea. WS Queenslander Robert Kelly holding outdoor English class to Vietnamese students at Saigon University. CUs of young Vietnamese women listening and VS Kelly teaching class vowels. WS Hanoi street with grand sandstone building with sign "Bou-Dien". VS two Vietnamese men in telephone exchange in front of electronic panel with Columbo Plan trained man teaching his companion. VS Vietnamese men at work in the exchange. CUs wiring. WS women collecting water from well in buckets carried at each end of stick. WS Holden car driving along provincial Benh-Vien street and tilt up water tower. VS Australian engineer Ralph Pennington working with Vietnamese engineer looking at plans and inspecting initial foundations for new water works. Quicktime clip available.

GS ambulance van along street and arriving at Benh-Vien hospital. CU sign in Vietnamese on door of Benh-Vien hospital. Tilt down to baby sitting on stone floor. MS of sole doctor in hospital attending patient and VS around hospital with patients and families waiting to be seen. MS Australian team leader Paul Large addressing camera to outline the hospital's problems. VS Dr Large performing operation aided by other Australian doctors all gowned up. GS crowded post-operative recovery ward in Benh-Vien hospital. VS Australian nursing sisters attending to patients in crowded conditions and VS patients' families sitting by their beds fanning them and assisting staff. VS injured babies and children. MS Australian doctor examining child in cot with small girl watching. VS Vietnamese nurse and VS families eating meals in hospitals. Quicktime clip available.

VS exterior of large white hospital building Binh-Vien Long-Xuyen. VS Australian and Vietnamese women looking into microscopes in pathological laboratory. VS Australian and Vietnamese attendants in x-ray facility taking x-rays of small boy. MS surgeon and medical team in operation. MS woman looking at her newly operated on hare lip in hand mirror. MS Director of Vietnamese Press sitting at large desk smoking and addressing camera about the many problems Vietnam faces. He speaks of the help that Australia among other nations has given Vietnam. WS busy Vietnamese shipping harbour and GS container ships and VS cargo with cargo handlers. VS wooden container boxes on wharf with high angle shots of them being hoisted onto ship. Tilt to WS of harbourside town. Quicktime clip available.

MS busy shopping street in South Vietnam. CUs of elderly woman in checked head scarf, older man with white goatee and children. GS food seller sitting on grassy verge eating from bowl and GS family eating on street. VS female workers carrying goods on poles and hand harvesting. WS cultivated field and end titles. Quicktime clip available.