HO CHI MINH FILM

 

 

 

French Indochina, Vietnam War

1940's through 1961

8 x Movies, 8mm transferred to DVD

You Get, 8 x 8mm Movies plus their transfer onto DVD

 

 

 

 

This is part of an incredible grouping  of Viet Minh Operative, DINH VAN SAM.

to my knowledge, there is no other movie of this day. This chapter lasts 3 minutes 36 seconds.

(I have added an image to photos above which shows the people in this first reel, later in the day, more dressed up).

2. Chapter 2.

Black and White, 4 mins 16 seconds long. Shows a group of people leaving on an bus, well dressed, obviously wealthy Vietnamese, Beautiful women. Truck is an old French Military Truck. Everyone having a great time, approx 50 people including Ton Duc Thang and Pham Van Dong. Party visits a pottery makers, they then have a picnic beside a stream, sing some songs, play guitar and wash up in the stream.

Chapter 3.

4 minutes 21 seconds. At the side of the road sits a burnt out car and a building in total dis-repair looking as if destroyed in a bombing of some sort. Some of the men from previous two chapters. They unload materials from trucks and commence building. At the end of the day they hoist a banner, 'Relief Committee for Education', they have a built a school, not a power tool in sight.




Chapter 4.

3 Minutes 46 Seconds. - Visit to Nguyen Thi Suot. -

This is identified by legend on box that contained reel and shows a group visit the house of a very old, 'Mother Nguyen Thi Suot'. I would date this reel to the mid 1960's. Visit includes Suot's daughters around her house. After the visit to her house, the movie shows the groups departure on Suot's famous boat.


(I have added a Vietnam image of Thi Suot to photos above)

Mother Nguyen Thi Suot (1906 - 1968), was a labor heroine in the Vietnam War, a 60-year-old woman, who risked her life doggedly ferrying Vietnamese soldiers and artillery in a small wooden-boat to the other side of the river bank of Nhat Le river during the years 1964 - 1967.

This is the story of a humble heroine – Me Suot ( The mother named Suot).

She was born in 1906 in My Canh hamlet, Bao Ninh commune of Dong Hoi, Quang Binh Province. She was born in a poor fishing family, grew up and worded for a landowner for 18 years.

Me Suot married a fisherman, with whom she had five children. Before the war escalated in the north Me Suot plied the same trade, boating people across the river in the 1960s. Often she was paid in rice, but in small quantities because rice was a precious commodity then. Other times she was paid with yam or cassava.

When the US bombed the wharf and surrounding areas, all the other ferrymen left. Only Me Suot bravely stayed to help the soldiers across the river.
The US planes rained down bombs at the two wharves in hope of eliminating this transportation artery. But in between attacks Me Suot continued to cross regardless.

Her name became known throughout the country. She was officially deemed a heroine of Vietnam and asked to travel to the country’s Congress of Heroes and Congress of Emulative Soldiers in Hanoi.

On October 11, 1968, Me Suot was killed in the attack by two steel-pellet bombs of the U.S jet. It’s said that a few days after the attack,two US planes and one vessel were destroyed by villagers and guerrillas.

Nowadays, the Me Suot statue stays on a small bar by the Nhat Le River, a short distance away, the newly-built Nhat Le Bridge, spanning Dong Hoi town with Bao Ninh commune, straddles both sides of the river, casting its lights along the silver water.

Chapter 5.

Dentified as Gia Dinh (Saigon) 1957 by legend on box. 3 minutes 40 seconds long.

Shows group of people, including some from first previous reels in a visit to Saigon. Includes Children, a perfect view of Saigon in 1957, markets, houses shops, beautiful girls, women in the traditional Ao Dai, a boy practicing marshal arts.



Chapter 6.

Three minutes 41 Seconds.  Nha Trang, 1959 - Color Reel.

Beginning of Chapter shows a group of children, women and men walking the streets, then boarding a large ferry boat. Some Buddhist Nuns and Nun children shown. Boat carries a banner I am unable to read. To the background are the beaches of Nha Trang. Later part of reel shows children playing rock pools, eating lunch, later a playground.



Chapter 7 - Long Hai. Three minutes 47 seconds

Children on Beach, playing on sand, into tyre tubes and into the water, tennis on the beach, fishermen pulling in nets in background, another day out.






Chapter 8 - 12 Minutes 34 Seconds Long. - Battleship Potemkin

I am keeping this with this set as it came with them, obviously appropriated somewhere along the line by the owner of the other reels.

This is the first 12 and a half minutes of the 1925 Russian Propaganda Movie, Battleship Potemkin. This reel revised in 1950 (subtitles dates 1950, original movie 1925) by the Russians with French Subtitles. The idea of this movie being translated was to assist in the fight for Communism allowing it to be shown and understood by the French Speaking Vietnamese, Viet Minh forces fighting the capitalst French.

Battleship Potemkin ( Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Po'tyomkin), sometimes, and more accurately, rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian Battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime.

Battleship Potemkin has been called one of the most influential propaganda films of all time, and was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World Fair in 1958.

After its premiere in the Soviet Union, Potemkin was shown in the USA. It was shown in an edited form in Germany, with some scenes of extreme violence edited out by its German distributors. A written introduction by Leon Trotsky was cut from Soviet prints after he ran afoul of Joesph Stalin. The film was banned in West Germany, Britain (until 1954 and X-rated until 1978), France, and other countries for its revolutionary zeal.

Today, however, the film is widely available in various DVD editions. However, in 2004, a three-year restoration of the film was completed. Many excised scenes of violence were restored, as well as the original written introduction by Trotsky. The previous titles, which had toned down the mutinous sailors' revolutionary rhetoric, were corrected so that they would now be an accurate translation of the original Russian titles in the film.

In April 2011, Battleship Potemkin was re-released in UK cinemas. On its re-release, Total Film magazine gave the film a five-star review, stating: "...nearly 90 years on, Eisenstein’s masterpiece is still guaranteed to get the pulse racing."

From my reading, Dinh Van Sam was an Artillery, radio, Forward Artillery Support Operative for the Viet Minh throughout the 1950's into 1960 - 1961. Dinh was a collector of Post Cards, Photographs, friends and Women. He was a bit of an artist, obviously an avid photographer and in later period, an 8mm Motion Camera enthusiast.

A Committed revolutionary with KY NIEM, repeatedly noted on his documents ( KY NIEM - RESIST) who fought on many fronts. Photos and letters, documented actions are noted form North Vietnam ( Hanoi ), down as far at least as Cholon (Saigon). A rare and historical set and should not be missed.

 

 

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