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gov.dod.dimoc.30120 · Beat 33 · permalink

Road

9:55–10:19 Released 1959

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Frame at 10:0110:01Frame at 10:1110:11Frame at 10:1310:13Frame at 10:1710:17

Play from 9:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 61–66. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • crowd of civilians, many carrying bundles or pulling carts, dressed in heavy clothing, indistinct ages and builds due to distance and grain visible
Seen happening
  • A military truck is visible on a road near a sign and a tree. [frame:1]
  • A dense crowd of civilians with bundles and carts is shown from above. [frame:2]
  • A long line of people and carts stretches along a road, viewed from a distance. [frame:3]
  • A chaotic scene of people, carts, and animals moving along a road, with some individuals carrying large sacks. [frame:4]
Seen
military truck [frame:1], carts [frame:2, frame:4], bundles and sacks [frame:2, frame:4], road sign [frame:1], hills [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and somber; themes: mass displacement, civilian hardship during conflict, movement and migration under duress; style notes: grainy black-and-white footage, high-angle shots to show scale of movement, static camera capturing chaotic motion

A large group of civilians is shown moving along a road with carts and bundles, in a scene described by the transcript as a desperate flight southward from advancing communists. The setting is outdoors, with hills and a road visible, and the crowd appears dense and burdened.

“But for hundreds of thousands of civilians trying desperately to outrun the advancing communists, the journey southward was a nightmare of cold, weariness, and confusion.” 10:03 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 10:01 (passage 9:55–10:19); US record: US Government work

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