FIRST ROTATION TROOPS FROM KOREA Part 1

Description

Summary: soldiers walking from gangplank. CU, mother tearfully embraces and kisses her son, a Cpl. The father is there too. MS, pretty girls in grandstand wave to the soldiers as they pass by. CU, soldier embracing a girl. MS, men kissing and embracing their wives. CU, man embracing his mother. Dolly Shot, people in the pier area. Official cars pass the people in pier area. Follow shot, girl twirling a baton on one of the floats. A band playing on the same float. Men pass by in trucks. People on curb. Returning soldiers passing through the city streets in trucks. The streets are lined with people; confetti, streamers. HS, vehicles with soldiers moving through the crowd-lined streets. Young girls pick up handfuls of streamers and confetti and hand them to the men as they pass by. VSs, men in vehicles parading through streets. Girls in the street throwing confetti at the passing soldiers. (Some of this printed dark) More reunion scenes at Camp Lawton: A Sgt and his wife hold their two children. Soldier holding a little blond-headed boy. Negro soldier holding little girl.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities