Korean Newsreel #19 Part 2

Description

SUMMARY: Whang Hai Steel Factory: CUs, Korean and Russian flags. VS, Korean and Russian officials inspecting steel factory. VS, workers forcing molten steel out of furnace. Exterior scene of the steel factory. Writers and Artists Meeting: VS, Korean writers and artists meeting in Mo Ran Bong theater. VS, Kim Il Sung and other officials addressing the meeting. MLS, Entire group posing for still pictures. South Korean Soldiers join the People's Republic: A short story on welcoming celebration for the South Korean 1st & 2nd Army group, headed by Batt. Comm. Cho Dong Wham, who deserted the South army to join the North Korean Peoples Republic. VS, companies of former South Koreans lined up on field. Commander Wham addressing the men. CU, faces. VS, soldiers receiving new insignias and sewing them on their clothes. Companies of former South Korean soldiers parading past review stand. Narrator states that these men hated the American collaborators and the Syngman Rhee government. Soviet and Mongolian Culture Group: VS, Soviets and Mongolians at Pyongyang airport bidding farewell to Koreans before boarding plane. Group enter plane and take off. Soviet and Korean Treaty Ratification: VS, Shitkov and unidentified Korean official at treaty ratification. Shitkov and Korean seat themselves and sign documents. VS, Russian and Korean officials seated at table talking and drinking a toast. Horse Racing: VS, horse racing in North Korea.

Collection

National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized

Series

Motion Picture Films From G-2 Army Military Intelligence Division