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gov.dod.dimoc.30120 · Beat 36 · permalink

Field

11:02–11:21 Released 1959

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Frame at 11:0311:03Frame at 11:0611:06Frame at 11:0911:09Frame at 11:1611:16

Play from 11:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 85–88. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • soldier in heavy winter coat and helmet, crouching visible
Seen happening
  • soldier handles wires and explosive device on bridge structure [frame:1]
  • soldier's hands tie wire to pipe [frame:2]
  • explosion erupts in open field with smoke and debris [frame:3]
  • aerial view shows crowded port with ships and industrial structures [frame:4]
Seen
explosive device [frame:1], wires [frame:2], pipe [frame:2], ship [frame:4], industrial structures [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent, destructive; themes: military withdrawal, scorched earth, logistics of evacuation; style notes: black-and-white, documentary-style framing, wide aerial shot for scale, close-ups on hands and action

A soldier prepares explosives on a bridge structure, followed by a distant explosion in a field, and an aerial view of a crowded port with ships. The transcript mentions evacuations from Seoul and Incheon and destroying infrastructure to deny its use to the enemy.

“out of Seoul, blowing the Han River bridges behind them. Incheon, like Hoongnam, was evacuated by sea. Here, too, we took pains to leave nothing behind which the enemy could use.” 11:03 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 11:03 (passage 11:02–11:21); US record: US Government work

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