ROVING REPORT NO 16

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: ITN 153).

Synopsis

Report in two sections.

1. Film of the specialised jungle warfare training which US conscripts receive before being posted to Vietnam. After basic training, soldiers are taught how to search a typical native house set in a reconstructed Vietnamese village at Fort Gordon, Georgia, and shown how to counter typical Viet Cong booby-traps and ambushes. Fate which awaits captured GIs, according to their instructors, is torture and humiliation or death, vividly illustrated at a replica Viet Cong interrogation camp. Prisoners are broken physically and mentally (cable-drum and oil-drum tortures demonstrated) in order to force them to sign a propaganda statement attacking US involvement in the war. Interviewed draftees unanimously declare it is their patriotic duty to fight in Vietnam. 2. Islanders from Tristan da Cunha who spent two years in Britain after a volcanic eruption in 1961 have now arrived back in England where they intend to settle. Emigration may ease the employment situation for those who remain on the island, now provided with a new protected harbour and fish-freezing plant, but may also eventually destroy the little South Atlantic community established in 1817.

 

Titles

  • ROVING REPORT NO 16 (Other)
 

Technical Data

Year:
1966
Running Time:
22 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Sound
Footage:
783 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
Production company
Independent Television News
reporter (Southampton etc)
Lindley, Richard