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gov.dod.dimoc.30120 · Beat 32 · permalink

Harbor

9:28–9:55 Released 1959

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Frame at 9:319:31Frame at 9:399:39Frame at 9:509:50

Play from 9:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 58–60. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
harbor (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • Smoke rises from the water near a large docked ship. [frame:1]
  • An explosion erupts on a distant shoreline. [frame:2]
  • A map overlay shows a coastline with labeled towns and ships at sea. [frame:3]
Seen
large ship, crane, explosion, map overlay
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: military evacuation, coastal conflict, strategic retreat; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots, documentary-style map overlay

A harbor is shown with smoke rising near a docked ship, followed by an explosion on a distant shoreline, then a map overlay showing coastal locations. The transcript describes the harbor as a 'ticking time bomb' and mentions an evacuation convoy heading to Pusan and Pohang.

“When we left, the harbor was one big ticking time bomb.” 9:28 · “The evacuation convoy steamed southward toward the free ports of Pusan and Pohang. Their troops would re-land, re-group, and move back to engage the enemy.” 9:33 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

US Government work The record names a federal body as the creating agency. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act). This says nothing about copyright outside the United States, or about music, stock footage or other material the film may incorporate. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from gov.dod.dimoc.30120 (1959) at 9:31 (passage 9:28–9:55); US record: US Government work

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