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Saigon Vietnam 1939 stock footage and images

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Port Construction in South Vietnam.River traffic. Ship labelled "States Marine Lines."

An aircraft flies over Mekong delta in Saigon and a few ships are seen including a United States ship labelled 'States Marine Lines'. Aircraft flies over areas of port construction where numerous small boats are anchored at the port as other ships come in and move away. Vehicles pass over a bridge built over the river as aircraft flies over derricks and cranes. (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1966, July 14
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037331
French troops prepare for defense and airplanes drop bombs on a field in Vietnam, French Indo China.

French troops prepare for defense in Vietnam. French paratroopers trained in American planes and methods, train for future action in Indo-China. Low- flying American-made planes drop napalm bombs, score a major victory over the communists near Hanoi. Soldiers help the civilians after the bombarding and destruction in Saigon. Destroyed vehicles on street.

Date: 1952, January 28
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045434
50th Anniversary of the Douglas DC-3 passenger transport aircraft. Scenes of the aircraft in use over the years.

Original design document of the DC-3. View of a Douglas DC-3 suspended from the ceiling of the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in Washington, DC. View of DC-3 plane taking off and in flight. 'Bonanza' written on the plane. Historic views of military use of the DC-3 over the years, including use in WWII for dropping paratroops, for carrying cargo, such as the Berlin Airlift, and as a gunship in the Vietnam War. Personnel inside a C-47 "Gooney Bird" operating M134 rotary-barreled machine gun miniguns. A newspaper headline reads 'US Depends on Air to Ship Berlin Freight' referring to use of the aircraft in the Berlin Airlift. Interior view of the DC-3 as a luxury passenger aircraft, circa 1939. Discussion with a current executive of the McDonnell Douglas aircraft Company, Michael Burch. Scenes of DC-3 aircraft being manufactured by war production workers in large factory plants during World War 2 era. Various scenes of vintage DC-3 aircraft, crews, passengers, DC-3 at airports, and interior and exterior views over the years. A DC-3 passenger airplane at a commercial airport taxis on a runway.

Date: 1985
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675024214
Crew on USS Midway push helicopters overboard to clear deck for emergency landing of a Cessna O-1 with evacuees

Fall of Saigon and evacuation of Americans and South Vietnamese escaping Vietnam at end of Vietnam War. US Navy crew members seen pushing UH-1D/H Huey helicopters and a CH-47 helicopter over the side of the ship, to make room on the deck for a Cessna O-1 (unseen), with evacuees, seeking to land.

Date: 1975, April 29
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069508
Activities of United States Information Service in various foreign countries

Opening scene shows a U.S. Information Agency (USIA) secretary provides a couple in Germany with information about American schools. Views of students in Saigon, South Vietnam, attending USIA English language classes. View of London, England, showing the Art Deco BBC Broadcasting House at Portland Place (Portland Pl, London W1A 1AA, UK) and All Souls Church, Langham Place (All Souls C of E Church, 2 All Souls' Pl, London W1B 3DA, UK). A man is seen delivering a can, containing the USIA monthly film documentary, to the BBC. View of Broadcasting House of BBC in Marylebone, England. In Iran, a Douglas DC-4 passenger plane takes off, carrying newspaper reporters and Iranian officials to look over an American technical assistance project which is seen from the air. In Tokyo, Japan, a man working in a private publishing company begins translating an American book. The book is open on his desk and contains an illustration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. A page of the book, written in Japanese, is shown being reproduced on a type of mimeograph machine.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024537
A Vietnamese refugee man being interviewed after his arrival in in the United States.

Vietnamese refugees being resettled in the United States, soon after the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. A middle-aged Vietnamese man seated in a park-like setting, and being interviewed. (Interviewer not seen.) Other people walking in the park in background. The man speaks.

Date: 1975, May
Duration: 7 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050944