Interview with Neil Davis Roll 5 (Frontline out takes)

Place Asia: Vietnam, South Vietnam, Saigon
Accession Number F10479
Collection type Film
Measurement 10 min 44 sec
Object type To be confirmed
Physical description 16mm/colour (Eastman)/sound
Maker Kim Dong Kyu
Davis, Neil Brian
Bradbury, David
Place made Thailand: Bangkok
Date made 25 January 1979
Access Open
Conflict Period 1970-1979
Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Neil Davis as a cameraman correspondent describes the US media focus; casualty statistics; his reasons for accompanying South Vietnamese forces; how naïve US correspondents misinterpreted and misrepresented events. [Interview concludes as sound only after film runs out.]

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