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Vietnam Symphony

In 1965, as Hanoi faced the threat of massive US bombing, students and teachers from the conservatorium of music fled to the countryside, where they built an entire campus underground: this is their story.
Year : 2005 | Total Duration : 52 Minutes | Producer : Kerry Herman
Director : Tom Zubrycki |
High angle sweeping pan across Hanoi rooftops to traffic and motorbikes on streets below. GS people at newsstand with passing traffic and night shots with flared headlights of evening traffic. WS Vietnamese flag in square at night and motorbike traffic in front of Hanoi opera house lit up.
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Access No. 141472 | 33 secs | 2000s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © NFSA | Colour |
Interior WS of Hanoi String Orchestra performing inside Opera House. MS violinist and rear view of orchestra.
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Access No. 141473 | 14 secs | 2000s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W air to air footage of bombs dropping from plane in clusters against soundtrack of classical music. WS views of same.
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Access No. 141474 | 10 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © NARA | B&W |
Archival B&W WS of bombs exploding on ground.
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Access No. 141475 | 4 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
Archival B&W high angle pan over bombed houses.
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Access No. 141476 | 8 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Archival B&W WS of Vietnamese rescue workers working in rubble from bombings carrying stretcher.
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Access No. 141477 | 3 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
Archival B&W pan across devastated bombed village.
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Access No. 141478 | 8 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Archival B&W footage of Vietnamese pushing bicycles and carrying belongings across shoulders as they walk down road past bombed buildings.
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Access No. 141479 | 6 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
VS Hanoi String Orchestra performing in Opera House and LS to orchestra on stage from back of theatre. GS audience.
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Access No. 141480 | 38 secs | 2000s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS paddy fields with man walking along road and cyclist in distance. WS Xuan Phu Village, Northern Vietnam with rice paddies in foreground. GS children and villagers in street.
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Access No. 141481 | 22 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilts to Hanoi String Orchestra performing on stage of Opera House. VS students setting up instruments outdoors. GS Professor Vu Huong, a former wartime evacuee and GS of his son Tuan. WS villagers gathered for outdoor concert with sunset behind them. WS orchestra playing on outdoor stage and WS large audience, some bathed by light from stage.
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Access No. 141482 | 44 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Busy Hanoi street traffic past camera. Opening titles. High shot over traffic and city. Unsteady track of Professor Vu Huong negotiating traffic on motorbike with cello strapped to his back. GS arriving at building and VS Huong playing cello in apartment. Voice-over and interview with Huong talking about being a music student then coming to teach in Vietnam. VS of Huong feeding his song bird.
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Access No. 141483 | 1 min 30 secs | 2000s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W American Universal Newsreel entitled "Step Up Viet Raids: Carrier Planes Strike Red Bases" with Voice: Ed Herlihy. Quick succession of shots of US briefing 1965, map of North Vietnam, planes preparing for air raid on aircraft carrier, bombs being loaded onto planes, plane taking off.
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Access No. 141484 | 15 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © NARA | B&W |
Archival B&W Vietnamese newsreel with English subtitles showing enemy guns, lines of youths, soldiers carrying missiles and lines of marching students with backpacks, one carrying guitar. Army vehicle with plant camouflage past camera.
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Access No. 141485 | 27 secs | 1960s | North Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with Professor Vu Huong recalling evacuating to the country.
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Access No. 141486 | 22 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W GS of Music Conservatory building exterior. CU pianist's hands playing grand piano. WS audience. MS female pianist playing.
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Access No. 141487 | 21 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
CU then high angle shot over Tran Thi Tuyet Minh seated with young female student at piano. Voice-over then MS interview with Minh talking about how the war affected her as a 20 year old.
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Access No. 141488 | 36 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Vietnamese people leaning out of train windows and pan to those on platform farewelling them. MS face of young woman. WS bus leaving. WS of people on bicycles on streets as bus passes by.
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Access No. 141489 | 20 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with Vu Thi Mai Phuong talking about being evacuated from Hanoi during the war.
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Access No. 141490 | 11 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Vietnamese people waving from train windows. CU train passing camera. GS musicians inside train with fellow students singing. High angle shot of train through countryside. WS scenery past train. WS students leaning out train windows. WS trail of steam coming from train. CUs train wheels. Voice-over of Vu Thi Mai Phuong.
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Access No. 141491 | 29 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
B&W photograph of a young Vu Thi Mai Phuong.
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Access No. 141492 | 11 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Vu Thi Mai Phuong | Colour |
MS subtitled interview with Vu Thi Mai Phuong crying as she talks about being evacuated from Hanoi as a thirteen year-old during the war.
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Access No. 141493 | 11 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Vietnamese school children walking across paddy fields carrying their belongings.
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Access No. 141494 | 12 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
CUs Vu Thi Mai Phuong playing stringed instrument. MS Professor Vu Huong talking about the taking of musical instruments during war evacuations.
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Access No. 141495 | 24 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Vietnamese boys pushing cart with piano on board.
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Access No. 141496 | 16 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
CU bamboo leaves and green grass against misty white light. WS people riding bicycles in mist in green countryside. WS woman walking with dog through village.
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Access No. 141497 | 16 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © NFSA | Colour |
MS subtitled interview with Do Van De recalling childhood memories about evacuations. GS man cycling past woman in paddy field with white mist in background. WS villagers and boy leading cow along footpath. Subtitled interview with elderly Do Van Cong about the arrival of students in his village during the war and having to find accommodation for them. WS of Do Van Cong and his wife as he describes the students. MS interview with Nguyen Xuan Nghiem about the differences between the students and the villagers.
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Access No. 141498 | 1 min 15 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS villagers on road going about everyday business walking, driving, cycling. VS street life. MS subtitled interview with Professor Vu Huong talking about why the village of Xuan Phu was chosen for the music students during the war. Interview with Nguyen Xuan Nghiem pointing out where trenches were and underground buildings were dug as he walks around the village accompanied by children.
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Access No. 141499 | 1 min | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of villagers carrying bales of hay and zoom into young men rendering wall with mud and twigs. VS thatching roof of house.
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Access No. 141500 | 25 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS Tran Thi Tuyet Minh describing the process of building houses. GS Nguyen Xuan Nghiem also describing the way village houses were built. MS Professor Vu Huong talking about how students were fed but teachers had to fend for themselves.
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Access No. 141501 | 33 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W high shot over young schoolchildren during Vietnam War in bunker being seated at long desks then GS rising as teacher walks in. MS teacher at blackboard leading children into song. Pan to children with CUs of their faces.
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Access No. 141502 | 35 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS Professor Vu Huong talking about teaching cello during the war.
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Access No. 141503 | 6 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of young Professor Vu Huong teaching cello to male student with VS of both professor and student and Prof. Huong annotating music sheets on student's stand.
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Access No. 141504 | 17 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS Tran Thi Thinh talking about the teaching of academic and singing classes at Xuan Phu during the war.
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Access No. 141505 | 9 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of three music students with one playing violin, another on piano with the third conducting. MS female student playing violin intercut with footage of fighter plane in sky. High angle shot of student playing piano in bunker with singer next to her intercut with jet plane high in sky seen through tree branches. CUs of singer and piano student's faces. CUs of hands over piano keys.
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Access No. 141506 | 39 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS Tran Thi Tuyet Minh sitting at piano talking about how the piano would be used in the bunker during the war and the shifts that were taken.
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Access No. 141507 | 7 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W high shot over young girl playing grand piano in bunker during the war with teacher at her side correcting her. CUs teacher and student's faces, sheet music and hands on piano. Various shots around room as students read, study and practice at piano. CU young pianist's face.
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Access No. 141508 | 24 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
CU Tran Thi Tuyet Minh's hands playing piano. CUs of her face as she plays. MS Professor Ngo Van Thanh talking about the villagers reactions to the various instruments being played by the students during the war ranging from pleasure to fear.
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Access No. 141509 | 1 min 18 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W WS of villagers walking across rice paddies. CU young man conducting orchestra and stilted pans of several assembled students playing instruments outdoors.
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Access No. 141510 | 23 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with Professor Vu Huong talking about the wartime audience the student orchestra received. WS villagers cycling away from camera in mist. WS of cyclists. MS Do Van De talking about growing up with the music school in Xuan Phu and VS of him performing with during orchestra rehearsal. Interview with Do Van Cong, De's father. GS villagers in rice fields.
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Access No. 141511 | 1 min 51 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W WS of village music students walking into jungle and helping to harvest. MS young woman towards camera wiping her face.
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Access No. 141516 | 11 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS Tran Thi Tuyet Minh talking to camera about her inexperience as a young music student during the war of shouldering a pole for harvesting. MS subtitled interview with Do Van Cong about asking for harvesting help from the School of Music and their inexperience.
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Access No. 141517 | 29 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Artillery unit marching through village accompanied by local children. WS anti-aircraft gun on hill with chickens in grass nearby. GS artillery soldiers looking at map on ground.
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Access No. 141518 | 13 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitles interview with Professor Huong describing the arrival of various military presence in the village and the reaction of the young music students to them.
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Access No. 141519 | 4 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Anti-aircraft gun being wheeled into place with pan along large rocket on it. VS soldiers playing with village children on anti-aircraft gun allowing them to aim gun. CUs childrens' smiling faces. GS soldiers watching young student playing violin in army helmet. VS soldier's faces and GS young boy showing soldier his stringed instrument.
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Access No. 141520 | 30 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with Pham Hung describing how as a young student during the war he performed for soldiers. He relates what it was he performed, how he put all his heart into it and why.
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Access No. 141521 | 11 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W Vietnam war footage of soldier carrying zither followed by soldiers and young music students. VS of soldiers, villagers and fellow students watching young Pham Hung performing solo piece on his stringed instrument seated below rocket on anti-aircraft gun.
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Access No. 141522 | 37 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS Pham Hung singing musical piece he performed as a young student during the war for the soldiers.
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Access No. 141523 | 47 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W Vietnam war footage of CUs soldiers behind guns.
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Access No. 141524 | 9 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
Archival B&W American Universal Newsreel from 1967 of jet plane in sky and US Navy footage of view from plane to bombs exploding on ground below. GS view through cockpit window looking down to track over exploding targets and aerial view of bombing close to Hanoi. Tracking colour US Air Force footage of explosions on ground in green fields seen from plane.
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Access No. 141525 | 35 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © NARA | Colour |
Archival B&W Vietnam war footage of explosions dropping onto ground seen through tree branches. WS plane in sky and WS rocket being launched into air. WS jets in air with dark vapour trails. WS explosion hitting ground near anti-aircraft gun.
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Access No. 141527 | 19 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with Professor Huong talking about the bombings near his village during the Vietnam war.
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Access No. 141528 | 13 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W Vietnam war footage of jet planes flying overhead.
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Access No. 141529 | 6 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with Professor Huong talking about the bombings near his village during the Vietnam war.
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Access No. 141530 | 8 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W pan down from sky to GS children helping to build tunnel during Vietnam War bombings. VS men digging and men in trenches.
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Access No. 141531 | 23 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with Professor Huong describing the network of underground passages and bunkers he helped build with fellow students during the Vietnam war. Interview with elderly Do Van Cong and his wife about the warning drills devised to assist villagers during the war.
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Access No. 141532 | 39 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W tilt tracking jet plane flying overhead in wartime Vietnam.
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Access No. 141533 | 6 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS Tran Thi Tuyet Minh playing piano. Tilt to her fingers on keyboard.
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Access No. 141534 | 9 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W CU of small girl playing piano. WS jet wartime in sky.
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Access No. 141535 | 7 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS Tran Thi Tuyet Minh sitting by her piano talking to camera about her fearfulness during the war as a child.
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Access No. 141536 | 18 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W shots of young music students practicing outdoors. CU young girl playing cello. MS student playing cello with teacher at his side seen outdoors from behind.
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Access No. 141537 | 10 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS Tran Thi Tuyet Minh sitting by her piano talking to camera about playing piano to calm herself during the war and WS of her playing piano. MS interview with professor Huong talking about the School of Music's development during the Vietnam War.
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Access No. 141538 | 40 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W GS of students riding in front of truck. Pan from truck along road across mountains to paddy fields in valley.
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Access No. 141539 | 12 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with former music student Nguyen Thuy Ha talking about travelling to various music venues during the Vietnam war.
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Access No. 141540 | 11 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W WS of students walking through jungle. VS students and soldiers arriving by bicycle and on foot for student performance. MS a young Nguyen Thuy Ha singing solo and with male partner. CUs faces watching.
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Access No. 141541 | 33 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with former music student Nguyen Thuy Ha talking about the dangerous and frightening nature of performing during the Vietnam war.
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Access No. 141542 | 22 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of crowds in street and soldiers behind firing line during Vietnam war conflict. WS villagers fleeing bombing on bicycles followed by army truck down street. MS of Nguyen Thuy Ha as a student singing.
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Access No. 141543 | 29 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with former music student Nguyen Thuy Ha talking about the fan mail she received from soldiers after she sang for them as a young music student during the Vietnam war and satisfaction she felt.
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Access No. 141544 | 15 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W WS of crowd of soldiers and villagers applauding.
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Access No. 141545 | 7 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
GS Nguyen Thuy Ha performing musical number for camera with young male piano accompanist. MS subtitled interview with Thuy Ha talking about the difference between young singers in Vietnam today compared to those during wartime.
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Access No. 141546 | 51 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W young music students in uniform carrying instruments past camera. MS large group of female students holding bunches of flowers clapping. MS rear view of Ho Chi Minh in front of students.
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Access No. 141547 | 21 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with Pham Hung talking about meeting Ho Chi Minh (Uncle Ho) as a student.
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Access No. 141548 | 13 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W CU of North Vietnam President Ho Chi Minh listening to performance by students from the School of Music. MS children playing violins next to singers then pan across seated orchestra. CU girl playing cello. Gs Ho Chi Minh in audience of children. WS orchestra and audience. GS Ho Chi Minh giving young girl sweets and pulling her towards him for a kiss. MS Ho Chi Minh surrounded by girls. VS of him receiving and kissing children.
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Access No. 141549 | 41 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS Pham Hung talking about meeting the aged Ho Chi Minh. CU Vu Thi Mai Phuong playing zither.
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Access No. 141550 | 17 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W CU of young girl playing zither with teacher at her side.
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Access No. 141551 | 7 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
CU subtitled interview with Vu Thi Mai Phuong crying as she talks of the starvation she experienced as a student.
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Access No. 141552 | 10 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W CU of fingers with extensions playing zither.
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Access No. 141553 | 3 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
CU Vu Thi Mai Phuong playing zither.
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Access No. 141554 | 5 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W CU of young girl playing zither.
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Access No. 141555 | 7 secs | 1960s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
CU subtitled interviews with Vu Thi Mai Phuong and Tran Thi Tuyet Minh talking about their lives as a music students during the Vietnam war.
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Access No. 141556 | 19 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W WS of people crossing bridge over river and closer shot of people wheeling bicycles across. Pan across burning recently bombed open area.
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Access No. 141557 | 15 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with Tran Thi Tuyet Minh talking about leaving her village as a young student with other students during the Vietnam war to get back to Hanoi. She talks of the routes they took and of sheltering from air raids on the way.
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Access No. 141558 | 13 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of students carrying musical instruments running down slope, one tripping, during air raid alert during the Vietnam war.
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Access No. 141559 | 37 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with Tran Thi Tuyet Minh talking about leaving her village with other young students during the Vietnam war to get back to Hanoi. She talks of the routes they took and of sheltering from air raids on the way.
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Access No. 141560 | 21 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Very good archival B&W footage of young girls hiding in foxhole during bombing alert during the Vietnam war.
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Access No. 141561 | 5 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
Archival B&W footage from 1972 looking up to jet plane in sky and VS clusters of bombs being dropped from planes. GS bombs falling. WS bombs through air and exploding on impact with ground. VS bombs exploding.
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Access No. 141562 | 20 secs | 1970s | Vietnam | © NARA | Colour |
Zoom into CU of Van Thanh playing violin. Subtitled interview with him as he talks about running away to see the bombings in Hanoi as a young music student during the Vietnam War. VS of Van Thanh playing violin.
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Access No. 141564 | 38 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W WS of bomber in sky and aerial views from plane of bombs exploding on bridge.
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Access No. 141565 | 4 secs | 1970s | Vietnam | © NARA | Colour |
WS archival B&W footage of bombs exploding at night flashing in darkness during the Vietnam war.
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Access No. 141566 | 2 secs | 1960s | Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS subtitled interview with Van Thanh talking about his experiences during the bombing of Hanoi during the Vietnam war.
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Access No. 141567 | 9 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
VS archival B&W footage of extensive bomb damage around area of Hanoi including Hue Street and Dong Anh. VS of corpse on ground, injured civilians being carried on stretchers and pans across refugees, smoking buildings and rubble.
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Access No. 141568 | 29 secs | 1960s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS of Van Thanh playing violin.
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Access No. 141569 | 6 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
GS archival B&W footage of young woman being rescued from air raid shelter and WS of man carrying injured or dead body of child.
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Access No. 141570 | 8 secs | 1960s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS of Van Thanh playing violin.
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Access No. 141571 | 6 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS subtitled interview with Van Thanh talking about his experiences during the bombing of Hanoi during the Vietnam war.
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Access No. 141572 | 22 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W WS of night time bombardment and blazing plane wreckage falling from night sky.
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Access No. 141573 | 17 secs | 1970s | Vietnam | © NARA | Colour |
GS archival B&W footage of villagers carrying pieces of plane wreckage.
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Access No. 141574 | 7 secs | 1960s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
VS of plane wreckage from Vietnam war in present day green surface of pond in park. MS Professor Vu Huong at the park with his grandson telling him the story of how the plane came to be in the pond. VS of the wreckage including fuselage with American star and tyres.
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Access No. 141575 | 29 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of American prisoners in striped prison garb being lead past Vietnamese media.
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Access No. 141576 | 21 secs | 1960s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS Vu Thi Mai Phuong speaking of her feelings for Americans.
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Access No. 141577 | 20 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival colour footage of US President Richard Nixon speech from 23 January, 1973 announcing agreement to end Vietnam war. Archival B&W Paris Conference newsreel with presidential car arriving to banners in french and people waving Vietnamese flags in street. VS politicians and zoom into Dr Henry Kissinger and CU of Special Advisor Le Duk Tho.
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Access No. 141578 | 28 secs | 1970s | Vietnam; Paris, France | © NARA Nixon Archive | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Vietnamese women on bicycle carrying flowers at end of Vietnam war. VS Vietnamese soldiers with flowers and VS smiling faces. WS and CU Vietnamese female soldiers singing and street marches with men carrying banners in Vietnamese street followed by marchers. WS crowds under jet and VS Vietnamese celebrating.
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Access No. 141579 | 29 secs | 1970s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
MS Vu Thi Mai Phuong speaking of her mixed feelings at the end of the Vietnam War. Nguyen Thi Ly in her garden speaking of her village missing the School of Music students. MS Nghiem listening then also speaking. MS interview with village women talking about her lost opportunities by rejecting interested male students during the war years. MS interview with Professor Vu Huong talking about reaching Hanoi at the end of the war.
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Access No. 141580 | 2 mins 11 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of soldiers running behind truck at night. GS people celebrating return to Hanoi with faces lit up at night. CU man playing flute and GS of playing with piano accordionist.
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Access No. 141581 | 18 secs | 1970s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
WS Hanoi skyline and high angle tilt across sea of buildings to Hanoi Conservatory. GS student arriving on motorbikes and push bikes with musical instruments strapped to their backs. Tilt down facade of conservatory to students entering. CU crowd of students with one writing notes on pad on another's back. VS Professor Vu Huong teaching cello in classroom to female student. High shot of students from upper floor window.
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Access No. 141582 | 1 min 1 sec | 2000s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of the School of Music building in Hanoi.
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Access No. 141583 | 15 secs | 1970s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © Vietnam Archive | B&W |
WS Hanoi city street at night with pan from busy traffic and lights to entrance of jazz club. CUs neon signs. VS Vietnamese jazz musicians from Red River Jazz Band with MS of saxophonist and double bass, Vu Anh Tuan. WS of club looking towards stage. VS extended family of Professor Huong, his son Vu Anh Tuan and family eating around square table. CU interview with Professor Huong expressing his regret that his son hasn't followed in his profession.
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Access No. 141584 | 1 min 33 secs | 2000s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
High angle shot over television studio and WS of studio audience clapping and holding up banners. VS Vu Anh Tuan hosting game show Tro Choi Am Nhac. GS multiple video screens in control room. VS contestants standing in groups and Tuan with microphone reading out questions.
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Access No. 141585 | 34 secs | 2000s | Hanoi, Vietnam | © Tro Choi Am Nhac | Colour |
CU B&W photographs of Professor Vu Huong holding his son Vu Anh Tuan as a baby and photograph of Professor and Mrs Huong with Tuan.
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Access No. 141586 | 9 secs | 2000s | Vietnam | © Professor Vu Huong | B&W |
WS 4WD car arriving in leafy street to apartment to be met by Professor Vu Huong. VS Australian daughter-in-law unloading grandchildren from car. WS family entering building. MS interview with Vu Anh Tuan talking about the unfolding of his father's story of the Vietnam war. Interior of car carrying various men and views over bridge and through countryside from inside car as they return to the village of Xuan Phu. View from car of villagers cycling along street, soldiers walking. VS inside car as men exchange stories of their time there as music students during the war. WS gates of the People's Committee of Xuan Phu County.
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Access No. 141587 | 2 mins | 2000s | Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
GS Professor Vu Huong, Ngo Vanh Thanh and Huong's son Vu Anh Tuan standing on road comparing the old school to how it was when they were there during the war. Professor Huong walks through gate and greets Nguyen Van Ban who he introduces to his son and the others. VS other former students arriving and reacquainting themselves to each other. CUs old village woman greeting the visitors. VS of the men recounting stories of the war to Tuan as they sit around table. Conversation with villager Nguyen Thi Ly.
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Access No. 141588 | 2 mins 19 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
WS buses and vans leaving old School of Music and GS people alighting bus with VS musicians. VS unloading grand piano and VS adjusting legs with VS of onlookers. VS of former students greeting each other. MS interview with Vu Anh Tuan talking about his father's relationship with his former pupils. VS Tuan talking to villagers and musicians about the tunnels they used during the war. WS Tran Thuy Ha rehearsing operetta with pianist on stage. GS boy on bicycle stopped to watch rehearsal.
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Access No. 141589 | 1 min 52 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU Tran Thi Tuyet Minh having make-up applied to her face. MS Tran Thuy Ha rehearsing operetta hitting shrill higher notes. WS schoolboys arriving for concert. VS musicians setting up instruments on stage, performers talking and group of children seated waiting. WS over concert audience at night sitting on ground with spotlights washing over them. MS Master of Ceremonies at microphone at front of stage introducing the School of Music concert. VS of performers playing instruments and singing. VS of audience and faces of people watching and laughing, smiling and clapping. MS pair of soldiers enjoying concert. GS Professor Vu Huong being present with floral bouquet.
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Access No. 141590 | 4 mins 21 secs | 2000s | Xuan Phu, Vietnam | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
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