Interview with Neil Davis Roll 21 (Frontline out takes)

Place Asia: Cambodia, Phnom Penh province, Phnom Penh
Accession Number F10495
Collection type Film
Measurement 12 min 1 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 events during the siege of Kompong Selai, Cambodia; how besieged government troops hunted the Khmer Rouge as food; the tenacity of the Cambodian Government troops in the defence of Phnom Penh; United States desertion of Cambodia; his feelings towards the communists after a rocket attack on a primary school, and his reasons for continuing filming this. [Interview concludes as sound only for 1 min 27 sec after film runs out; original negative cut for use in 'Frontline'; title filler 'Scene extracted' spliced in where the cuts was made.]

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