Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Korean War, luncheon is held in Culver City, CA, for entertainers leaving for various countries to put on shows for US troops
Title "Stars bring good cheer to troops" superimposed over close shot of flashing star images / overhead shot of guests sitting and eating at tables at luncheon inside California National Guard Armory / closer shot of celebrities eating...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Korean War, UN official leaving place in South Korea where Indian soldiers have just arrived
Official sitting in US helicopter as its rotor blades start spinning / helicopter taking off and flying away / Note: exact month/day not known
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Korean War: Army Transportation Corps
Korean War / LS train / United States Army soldiers work on train cars / train engineer waves / train engine reads Transportation Corps and train car reads United States Army / train moving / Note: exact day not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
South Koreans in Seoul turn salvaged tin into material for roofing and walls of buildings
Title "Seoul, Korea" superimposed over people walking back forth in front of store with roof made of tin / man cutting up beer cans with cutter as his daughter watches / two shots of man cutting long strips of salvaged tin with cutter /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Parade for wounded Korean War veterans down Broadway's Canyon of Heroes, December 1953
Title "Operation Homecoming - 114 Wounded Korean Vets Get N.Y. Welcome" superimposed over parade / jeeps parade down Broadway's Canyon of Heroes, crowds line streets / camera follows merchant and official NYC host Grover Whalen; General...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Navy battleship USS Missouri sailing into San Francisco harbor on way to reserve or "mothball" fleet in Bremerton, WA
Title "'Mighty Mo' joins the mothball fleet" superimposed over shot from boat of USS Missouri sailing into San Francisco harbor / three shots from boat of USS Missouri sailing into San Francisco harbor / two shots from boat of fireboat...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
First days in Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea after Armistice ends Korean War
Title "Korea - First days of the truce" superimposed over panning shot of empty trench in Demilitarized Zone / shot of former battlefront / empty trench / US soldiers clearing out bunker / US soldiers stacking machine guns and boxes of...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Harrison and Nam Il sign truce; Clark and Taylor in Munsan
Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 100" / title card: "Films for History-The Actual Signing of Korean Truce" superimposed over truce bldg / soldiers, officers outside bldg / jeeps enters guarded area / Military Police jeep with "Truce...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Korean War, demonstration in Seoul against armistice negotiations and for continuing to fight for unification of Korea
Banner across front of building "Mass meeting for advancing north and unification" / South Korean soldier standing at microphone reading statement / group of South Korean demonstrators looking a camera, two of them holding banner "Give...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Korean War, North Korean and Chinese Communist workers at Panmunjom, North Korea, construct new building for signing of armistice
Wide panning shot of tents, old building where peace talks have been held and new building under construction / VS workers constructing new building / workers sitting and resting / workers building / two wide shots of building under...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Former American Korean War POWs being fed and treated at US medical facility at Panmunjom
MS GI POW eating, smiling at camera / CU POW eating / MS POW holding a cup, talking / CU POW smiling at camera / MS POW who lost an arm sitting at table talking to another soldier / CU POW talking and smiling at camera / MS POW sitting...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Farewell ceremony in Washington, DC for retiring US Army General James Van Fleet, former Commander of 8th US Army in Korea
Title "Gen. Van Fleet - Farewell to Army life" superimposed over soldiers marching in formation towards and past camera / standing from right to left reviewing soldiers: Gen. James Van Fleet, Undersecretary of Army Earl Dallas Johnson,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Parade for Gen. Douglas MacArthur in New York City after Pres. Harry Truman dismissed him from command of US troops in Korean War
Title card that looks like newspaper headline: "The MacArthur dismissal, News sensation of the year"/ close shot of Gen. Douglas MacArthur saluting superimposed over aerial shot of New York City / tilt down confetti flying through air...
British Movietone
MR TRUMAN'S BROADCAST
In the course of President Truman's recent broadcast, he made references to the forces fighting in Korea. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the...
British Movietone
KOREA - OVER 38TH PARALLEL
The American 24th Division, returning to Taejon, must have been delighted to find so many Russian built tanks littering the approach to the town. Now, with United Nations sanctions, come the crossing of the 38th Parallel to finish the...
Sky News
Views of the National World War II Memorial and Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington DC
CLEAN: Exterior shots of the National World War II Memorial and the Korean War Veterans Memorial, including shots of an inscription commemorating the attack on Pearl Harbour and the United States flag flying against a clear blue sky on...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Korean War anti-Communist Chinese POWs board landing ship tank during Operation Comeback
WS POW with Taiwanese flag walking across rail track, two women serving tea to POWs, crowd holding signs and banners behind rope barrier in distance along rail track / side view of POWs with belonging on back, waving flags / CU POWs...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
South Korean prisoners of war released
North Korea releases three South Korean prisoners of war / prisoners walk behind North Korean officer / photographers line area as prisoners walk / hand over between North Koreans and American military / released prisoners, South Korean...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Chinese and US films shown to the UN of pilot John Quinn confessing to using germ warfare in North Korea then repudiating confession
Chinese POW films and US films shown to UN by US UN Rep Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.--Chinese film: MS Chinese guard and pilot John Quinn sitting at table facing camera, microphone in front of Quinn, other Chinese at table writing down Quinn's...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Chinese and US films shown to the UN of airman Paul Kniss confessing to germ warfare in North Korea then repudiating confession
Chinese POW films and US films shown to UN by US Ambassador to UN Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.--Chinese film: Asian guard and American Airman Lieutenant Paul Kniss in interrogation room, Kniss sits down / Kniss at interrogation table with two...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Demilitarized zone sign separates North and South Korea
CU sign reads "South Limit Demilitarized Zone, Do Not Enter" in three different languages: English, Korean and Chinese / PAN barbed wire fence into hillside covered by bushes / repeat the same shot / Note: exact day not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US and Korean soldiers during the Korean War walk through mud, traverse river, carry wounded, and fire artillery in 1951
MLS trucks and jeeps pulling artillery driving up muddy road to camera, two US soldiers in fgd, hill ridge in bkgd / High angle group of soldiers in rain ponchos and helmets / group of soldiers walking up road toward camera, a couple...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Korean War: military planes
Korean War / film narrated by Gregory Abbott / tanks firing / jeep with soldiers, field radios / planes on tarmac being serviced with gas, rockets, ammunition and napalm / pilot briefing / CU pilots / Note: exact day not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Quiet battlefield at Bunker Hill in the early days of the Korean War armistice
Unsteady shot of a desolate, hilly landscape, a quiet battlefield / a single, shirtless man walks in an empty slit trench lined with sand bags on Bunker Hill / a group of UN troops atop a trench; pan right to a couple of Chinese...