KOREAN INDEPENDENCE DAY, KYUNG JU KOREAN AND HANG NAM, KOREA Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 7257 111 SOURCE: AFCF (A-2278) Card 1 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 702' ea Silent 7257-1 KOREAN INDEPENDENCE DAY Kyung Ju Korean and Hang Nam, Korea 15 August 1948 MSs, MCUs, Koreans wearing costumes dancing in the village street, beating drums and singing. Crowd watching. MS, giant figure of what looks like an American officer (possibly Gen MacArthur( being pulled along the street. A poster with a picture of Snygman Rhee on a wagon. VS, young girls singing; man playing a piano. An unidentified Korean speaking to a crowd. Groups of people standing in the park, carrying banners, wearing costumes. Children carrying flags, walking in park. Man riding a bicycle with a little child on the handlebars. MCUs, little girls wearing cardboard noses, wave flags and sing. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave, LIC 1, NY ERBS/mle Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210 Signal Corps ADC 7257 111 SOURCE: AFCF (A-2278) Card 2 of 2 ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 702' ea Silent 7257-2 KOREAN INDEPENDANCE DAY Cont'd Kyung Ju Korean and Hang Nam, Korea Cont'd 15 August 1948 Cont'd Citizens on parade, a huge papier mache figure of a tiger is carried through the streets. VS, people dancing crazily in the streets, carrying banners, wearing paper masks, etc. Huge assemblage of people in a park. Cuts of older Koreans wearing traditional dress. MS, several infants seated on the ground. Men wearing paper hats beating drums, dancing around a pole. CUs, giant figures carried in parade. LS, country road leading from village. Group of people walking. (Note: Fungus marks in reel) ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/mle Record Group 111 Accession III-NAV-210

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities