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Title:AMMUNITION DUMP EXPLOSION IN SAIGON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 573
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Footage of ammunition dump exploding in Saigon, capital of French Indo-China (Vietnam), and of the aftermath.
Description: An Annamite (Vietnamese) civilian family sitting in an alleyway; camera pans down the alley to show other people and a few soldiers are present. Shots showing utter devastation, with areas reduced to rubble, window frames blown out of buildings and scattered ammunition of various sizes. A deserted market stall with debris everywhere. A cow eats abandoned food. A deserted stall with scattered ammunition. Damaged building. A massive cloud of drifting smoke. Shop fronts. Shell lying in the road with damaged shop buildings behind. Rapidly drifting smoke. Distant view of smoke with a secondary explosion; a fireball and smoke can be seen. A mushroom cloud of smoke with smoke trails from ordnance or debris falling to earth. A clear shot of a fireball generating a mushroom cloud.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
Povey, P W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: Saigon, French Indo-China (geography)
Allied Occupation of French Indo-China, Allied Occupation of South East Asia post-August 1945 (event)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
