1975-1985IMMIGRATION
BOAT PEOPLE, ASIAN REFUGEES, Late 1970s
Story of the Vietnamese refugees and immigrants who came to America after the Vietnam War and settled in California.
Story of the Vietnamese refugees and immigrants who came to America after the Vietnam War and settled in California.
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Reel Opens - Asian Refugees
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Asian male teacher in a classroom with adorable Asian children. He leads the children in singing a song about Vietnam.
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| 01:00:10 10.35 |
CU on an adorable little Asian girl about 7 or 8.
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| 01:00:12 12.92 |
Cutaway from face of Asian child to large paper map tacked to the wall. Pan out from the map to the Asian kids, mostly girls, in a class sitting around a table writing in their books. Narrator ,unseen, talks about the schools in California where the Asian children re-learn the language and customs of their motherlands which have been forgotten
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| 01:00:21 21.97 |
Cutaway to aerials of the vast farmlands in California and immigrants from Laos, Cambodia or Vietnam are seen working in the fields.
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| 01:00:27 27.04 |
Southeast Asians sitting on the floor around a low lying table and sharing a meal and drinking tea.
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| 01:00:33 33.86 |
CU shot of a Cambodian or Vietnam older woman wearing a scarf on her head
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| 01:00:41 41.79 |
Cutaway to military helicopter taking off from the parking lot of the US Embassy in Saigon. WS of the Embassy building as helicopter flies above
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| 01:00:50 50.57 |
Hundreds of Southeast Asian men and women walking toward camera carrying all their belongings on their backs and heads. Unseen narrator explains that since the Vietnam War ended many of them fled to the United States, more than half of them to California.
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| 01:01:00 60.88 |
Cutaway busy street corner in the Bay Area of California, a fruit & vegetable stand is seen and several Southeast Asian peds walking about. Reporter walking towards camera introduces the story he's about to tell about a Vietnamese man who fled to the United States with his family after the Vietnam War. He eventually settled in the Bay Area of San Francisco.
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| 01:01:25 85.41 |
CU on the face of a Vietnam man, Hai Nimh (sp?). He talks into camera about his dream of coming to the U.S. to have a peaceful place to live - not for more money and material things.
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| 01:01:45 105.59 |
Cutaway back to Southeast Asia - shots of people crowded around a bus, saying goodbye. Passengers on the bus at the windows reaching their hands out - woman is seen crying.
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| 01:01:59 119.49 |
Back to CU of Hai Nimh. Unseen narrator explains how he didn't leave right away and hung on as long as he could. Hai Nimh talks about how the North and South came together but didn't like the Communists even though they were all now "brothers and sisters"
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| 01:02:25 145.32 |
The streets of Saigon, people riding. bikes, carrying baskets., little boy turns and looks at camera.
Unseen narrator explains how Hai Nimh hung on there until he found out he would be sent to a "re-education camp." |
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Cutaway to a map depicting Vietnam and Malaysia. Animated white line is drawn from Vietnam to Singapore. Faded barely seen overlay of several people crowded on a small boat.
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| 01:02:55 175.55 |
CU on Hai Nimh explaining how the boat filled with water quickly as he threw life jackets to his family and saved them. He laughingly says the last thing he saw was a little mouse.
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| 01:03:21 201.52 |
Several boats overloaded with Southeastern Asian refugees known as "The Boat People"
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| 01:03:29 209.28 |
CU Nimh talking about trying to forget about leaving his home country. but states more importantly is to focus on today and planning for tomorrow
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| 01:03:59 239.55 |
Computer screen with video game - looks and sounds similar to Pac Man
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| 01:04:01 241.69 |
(Nine years later) Nimh is seen sitting behind an array of computer screens and equipment in his own video arcade game repair store in Virginia
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| 01:04:08 248.19 |
Hand adjusts dial on a vintage video game screen
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| 01:04:26 266.51 |
Teenage daughter Kim speaks with unseen interviewer about how she would come home from American school and give her father her history book that he would translate for her
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| 01:04:42 282.65 |
Southeast Asian family sitting around dinner table in dining room of their home - Narrator talks unseen about the six children in the Nimh family, some in college and some in high school
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| 01:05:00 300.16 |
cutaway - Vietnamese people working in a rice paddy in Vietnam. Fade out to a lush mountain range
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| 01:05:12 312.59 |
CU Nimh talks about the dreams his father had that were unfulfilled compared to his own.
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End
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Reel Ends.
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