Interview with Neil Davis Roll 17 (Frontline out takes)

Place Asia: Kampuchea
Accession Number F10491
Collection type Film
Measurement 10 min 49 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 5 February 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 how the Viet Cong combined booby traps and ambushes; dangerous jungle creatures and the story of how an American sentry was carried off by a tiger; awareness of booby traps; crossing rivers; the difference between the war in South Vietnam which was fought in the paddy fields and jungles to that in Camdodia which was fought for the control of the highways; war zone taxi service and noodle sellers in Cambodia. [Interview concludes as sound only after film runs out.]

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