- Title: VM-1349
- Summary: ECHO OF GRENADA: PROPAGANDA FILM ABOUT UNITED STATES ROLE IN GRENADA AND LEBANOIN INVASION. - (ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM)
- Description:00:12:41 - PAINTING OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS' SHIP DISCOVERY OF GRENADA. LS PAN PICTURESQUE GRENADA AND HARBOR.. COLUMBUS CALLED IT "THE SPICE ISLAND. "A PARADISE IN THE CARIBBEAN". VARIOUS VIEWS OLD FORTS AND CANNONS FROM EARLY FRENCH AND SPANISH DOMINATION. 00:13:14 - LS U. S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN GRENADA WATERS AS SEEN FROM SHORE. CU FOREIGN MINISTER WHITEMAN OF GRENADA SPEAKING OVER TV CLAIMS THAT "PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN IS PLANNING AN AGGRESSION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY AGAINST GRENADA......". 00:13:51 - LS WHITE HOUSE WITH FOUNTAIN ON FRONT LAWN. CU RONALD REAGAN SPEAKING, READING FROM PREPARED TEXT, "THE UNITED STATES SERIOUSLY OPPOSES THE USE OF FORCE BY ONE NEIGHBOR AGAINST AMERICA IN CENTRAL AMERICA......". ANIMATED MAP OF CARIBBEAN AREA SHOWING TINY ISLAND OF GRENADA OFF SOUTH AMERICAN NORTHERN COAST. TITLE IN RUSSIAN: "ECHO OF GRENADA". 00:14:23 - MLS ZOOM AWAY FROM CRUISE SHIP OFF SHORE TO INLAND COVE WITH SMALL HOMES ALONG BEACH. PAN QUAINT CLAY ROOF HOMES ALONG SHORE LINE OF GRENADA. LS PAN SPEED BOAT RIDING PAST SAIL BOATS AND OTHER PLEASURE CRAFT IN HARBOR AS VOICE OVER SINGER SOUNDS LIKE BELEFONTE SINGING ONE OF HIS "TALLYMAN -TYPE" ISLAND SONGS. AERIAL PAN PICTURESQUE HARBOR WITH MARINAS AND PLEASURE BOATS.00 15 11 VARIOUS VIEWS NATIVE GRENADIANS, CHILDREN, SCHOOL KIDS, HAPPILY GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS. YOUNG BLACK BOYS MEETING ON STREET CORNER. BLACK FEMALE WORKER CLEANING BANANAS IN WASH TANK. ELDERLY WOMAN WORKER SMILES AS SHE HANDLES BANANAS. CU HAND USING MACHETE TO OPEN COCONUT.. 00:16:00 - HORIZON AT DUSK AS SEEN THROUGH PALM TREES ON SHORE. CU SMILING SHIRTLESS YOUNG MAN PULLING NET, WAVES TO CAMERA.. YOUNG BLACK MAN WITH DREADLOCKS (HAIR STYLE) SMILES WITH CIGARETTE DANGLING, AS HE WORKS. TWO BOYS UNDER WATERFALL FACING CAMERA. AS ANOTHER IN F/G BOBS UP AND DOWN UNDER WATER., TILT UP WATERFALL ROLLING DOWN HIGH MOUNTAIN. 00:16:32 - TITLE "OCTOBER 25, 1983". LS LARGE U. S. TWIN ROTOR HELICOPTERS, WITH U. S. RAPID DEPLOYMENT FORCES OF RANGERS AND MARINES CIRCLING LOW OVER ISLAND. VARIOUS SHOTS U. S. TROOPS INSIDE HELICOPTERS. ZOOM IN CAPTAIN BEN MORRIS, (VOICE OVER) "A VETERAN OF THE "DIRTY" WAR IN VIETNAM". "HIS 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION LEFT A TRAIL OF BRUTALITY AND INTERVENTION IN VIETNAM....". (PROPAGANDA). HELICOPTER LANDING. U. S. ARTILLERY UNIT FIRING. LS GROUP OF PALM TREES BLOWING UP. MARINES FIRING BAZOOKAS. RIFLES. TROOP[S RUNNING DOWN ROAD, PATROLLING THROUGH JUNGLE. 00:17:38 - MS PHOTOS OF PRESIDENT REAGAN IN PAJAMAS, SPEAKING ON PHONE. SPEAKING TO AIDES AT HIS DESK AND WARSHIPS AT SEA. 00:17:54 - VARIOUS SHOTS U. S. MARINE UNITS WALKING DOWN BOTH SIDES OF STREET IN RESIDENTIAL AREA AND FROM STORE TO STORE IN EMPTY BUSINESS DISTRICT. ABOVE VIEW MARINE MANNING MACHINE GUN ON JEEP AS IT PATROLS AREA. SOLDIERS PATROL DOWN NARROW BUSINESS STREET AS NATIVES GO ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS. MS PRIME MINISTER BISHOP IS HUGGED BY CITIZEN AS HE WALKS AMID THEM SMILING, HUGGING, SHAKING HANDS. (JULY 1983). VOICE OVER "HE EMBODIED THE HOPES OF GRENADA". 00:20:09 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "BISHOP IS DEAD", ZOOM IN PHOTO BISHOP ON FRONT PAGE. 0019 143 MCU BISHOP SEATED ON ROCKS BY SEASHORE SPEAKS OF HIS PLANS FOR GRENADA AND THE REGION. VARIOUS SHOTS LITTLE BLACK KIDS IN TINY SCHOOL ROOM WITH BLACK MALE TEACHER 00:20:15 - SMALL GROUP OF YOUNG MEN IN VARIETY OF CIVILIAN WEAR, PRACTICE MARCHING AND DRILLS WITH RIFLES. GRENADA ARMED FORCES NUMBERED ONLY 1200 MEN 00:20:17 - PRESIDENT REAGAN SPEAKING OF GRENADA, "IF WE DO NOT ACT PROMPTLY AND DECISIVELY IN DEFENSE OF FREEDOM, NEW CUBAS WILL ARISE FROM THE RUINS OF TODAY'S CONFLI........". AERIAL VIEW GRENADA 10,000 FOOT AIRPORT. UNDER CONSTRUCTION (BY CUBAN WORKERS, SOVIET FINANCING). VOICE OVER, "SO IT SEEMS THAT IF A CIVIL AIRDROME IS PHOTOGRAPHED BY A SPY IN THE SKY, THEN IT BECOMES A SECRET MILITARY OBJECTIVE". "....DOES AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY HAVE THE RIGHT TOO HAVE AN AIRPORT?" VARIOUS VIEWS NATIVE BLACK WORKERS SHOVELLING HOT ASPHALT, AS STEAM ROLLER SMOOTHS IT DOWN. PAN SCENIC VIEWS SEASHORE AND PALM TREES TO MR. BISHOP SPEAKING OF HIS PLANS OF THE AIRPORT. MORE SCENIC SHOTS OF GRENADA AS VOICE OVER BISHOP SPEAKS. 00:22:41 - MCU CLOCK ON CHURCH TOWER. MS ZOOM AWAY FROM ALTAR IN CHURCH TO NATIVE PEOPLE OF GRENADA ATTENDING MASS. CU PRIEST GIVING SERMON SPEAKS OF THANKING GOD FOR THE AIRPORT, ASKING GOOD TO BLESS THE AIRPORT. AND "TO BLESS ALL THOSE WHO WORK FOR THE AIRPORT." PAN PEOPLE SINGING HYMNS. 00:23:25 - MS REPORTER INTERVIEWS SHIRTLESS BRITISH WORKER WHO SAYS HE IS FROM LONDON, ASKS HIM IF HE THINKS THE AIRPORT HE IS HELPING TO BUILD IS A MILITARY BASE ? THE MAN ANSWERS, "NO!" 00:24:20 - CU PRESIDENT REAGAN SPEAKING TO CAMERA, "WE HAD TO ASSUME THE CUBANS WORKING ON THE AIRPORT WERE MILITARY RESERVES", 00:24:33 - MS YOUNG BLACK NATIVE GRENADIANS DANCING TO ISLAND ROCK MUSIC ON CROWDED DANCE FLOOR. 1980S HAIR STYLES, DANCE. AS VOICE OVER REAGAN SPEAKS OF THE DANGERS GRENADA POSES TO DEMOCRACY. CU FACE SHOT REAGAN "WE GOT THERE JUST IN TIME". VARIOUS VIEWS U. S. MARINES PATROLLING THE ISLAND. HANDCUFFING CIVILIAN MEN. VARIOUS VIEWS CIVILIAN (CUBAN ?) WORKERS IN CUSTODY. 00:25:48 - AIRLINE LANDING IN CUBA IS GREETED BY FIDEL CASTRO HIMSELF AND THE CUBAN WORKERS RETURNING HOME ARE GREETED LIKE HEROES. CASTRO GREETS MEN ON STRETCHERS AMBULANCES LEAVE AIRPORT UNDER POLICE MOTORCYCLE ESCORT WITH SIRENS SCREECHING. 00:26:38 - VARIOUS VIEWS AMERICAN MARINES GUARDING BLINDFOLDED PRISONERS SEATED ON GROUND. VARIOUS SHOTS CUBAN GOOSE STEPPING (SOVIET STYLE) HONOR GUARDS CARRYING COFFINS DRAPED IN CUBAN FLAGS, OFF PLANE, AS FIDEL AND RAUL CASTRO WATCH. MCU FIDEL AND RAUL CASTRO SALUTING. CU YOUNG WOMAN DRYING TEARS FROM EYES. ANOTHER HOLDS HANDKERCHIEF TO MOUTH AND CRIES..PROCESSION OF PEOPLE VIEWING COFFINS WITH PHOTO OF EACH DEAD CUBAN SITS IN FRONT OF COFFIN. ABOVE PAN HUGE CROWD MOURNERS FILL CUBAN SQUARE, FIDEL WALKS AMONG THEM TO PODIUM, MAKES SPEECH CONDEMNING THE UNITED STATES. 00:29:00 - VARIOUS VIEWS U. S. TROOPS ON THE MOVE IN TRUCKS . VARIOUS VIEWS PLANES , INCLUDING RADAR PLANE TAKING OFF FROM U. S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER. 00:29:42 - VARIOUS VIEWS U. S. MAINES AND HONDURAN TROOPS IN JOINT MANEUVERS, MAKING AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT ON CARIBBEAN COAST OF HONDURAS. LESS THAN 200 MILES FROM NICARAGUA IN SHOW OF FORCE TO INTIMIDATE NICARAGUAN SANDINISTAS. VARIOUS VIEWS SOLDIERS THROWING GRENADES, FIRING MACHINE GUNS AND CHARGING THE BEACH. 00:31:35 - CU DAD FACED LITTLE GIRL AND OTHER CHILDREN AMID ANTI-GOVERNMENT GUERRILLA FORCES IN MOUNTAIN HIDEAWAYS. MORE OF U. S. SOLDIERS (ADVISORS) ON MANEUVERS IN JUNGLE, FIRING BAZOOKAS, MORTARS. LS BATTLESHIP NEW JERSEY FIRING ON LEBANON."IS AN ECHO OF GRENADA 00:32:40 - HEAVY BLACK SNOKE RISES FROM BURNING BUILDINGS IN LEBANON. PEOPLE FLEEING THROUGH THE STREETS. LS PEOPLE SEEN THROUGH WINDOWS OF BURNING APARTMENT BUILDING CALLING FOR HELP. WOMAN SCREAMING. BURNING CARS IN STREETS, BOYS RUNNING PAST THEM.. MAN RUNS THROUGH STREETS WITH LADDER TO ASSIST TRAPPED PEOPLE IN BURNING BUILDINGS. GRIEF IN WOMAN'S FACE. MLS CHILD IS HELPED OVER RAIL OF BALCONY TO RESCUE WORKERS BELOW. MAN RUNS THROUGH STREET WITH INJURED BOY IN ARMS. DEAD CARRIES ON STRETCHERS. 00:34:07 - PRESIDENT REAGAN SPEAKS ON LEBANON. SAYS STABILITY OF ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST IS THREATENED IN LEBANON. CU VARIOUS SHOTS AMERICAN ARMED MARINES ON THE ALERT.. 00:34:41 - MLS AMERICAN B-52 BOMBER LANDING AT U. S. BASE IN ENGLAND. CROWD OF ENGLISH PROTESTORS OUTSIDE CHAIN LINKED FENCE AT BASE , PROTESTING THE INTRODUCTION OF CRUISE MISSILES AT THE BASE. PROTESTORS BEING REMOVES PHYSICALLY BY BRITISH POLICE AS THEY SIT IN SLOWE DURING BLIZZARD. LS TRUCK WITH LONG FLAT BED CARRYING MISSILES ON BRITISH ROAD. MORE OF PROTESTORS BEING CARTED OFF. VARIOUS VIEWS EUROPEAN, JAPANESE, SOUTH AMERICAN CROWDS PROTESTING. 00:37:00 - VARIOUS VIEWS ORGANIZED JAPANESE PROTESTORS WITH HELMETS MAKE HUMAN WEDGE TO TRY TO BREAK THROUGH POLICE BARRICADES. UNCLE SAM DUMMY IS HUNG IN EFFIGY IN NICARAGUA (?) CU MAN CALLING OUT SLOGANS OF PROTEST OVER MIC. 00:37:52 - CU AMERICAN FLAG IS LIT ON GROUND, THEN HELD UP TO BURN. MS PAN GRAPHIC VIEWS DEAD CIVILIANS LITTER STREET. VOICE OVER. "AMERICA IN LEBANON". SOUND OVER OF CHOIR SINGING "AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL AS VIEWS OF AMBULANCE WORKERS CARRYING DEAD AND WOUNDED ON STRETCHERS; PHOTO OF GI POSING WEITH PHOTO OF REAGAN; VARIOUS PHOTOS ARMED MARINES POSING; MARINES SEARCHING CIVILIAN PRISONERS, GUARDING PRISONERS LYING FACE DOWN WITH HANDS CUFFED BEHIND THEM; MORE PHOTOS DEAD. IN STREETS. PHOTOS AMERICAN FAMILIES AT FUNERAL OF DEAD U. S. SOLDIERS, ETC. AS THE CHOIR SINGS AND ENDS WITH MOVIE POSTER OF RONALD REAGAN IN COWBOY HAT WITH MARILYN MONROE (?) IN B/G 00:41:07 - ABOVE VIEW UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL IN SESSION AT ROUND TABLE WITH GRENADIAN AMBASSADOR TO UNITED NATIONS, JACOBS, SPEAKING ON OCTOBER 26, 1983, THE DAY AFTER U. S. INVASION OF GRENADA. CONDEMNING THE U. S.. VOICE OVER, "THE WORLD WILL NOT ACCEPT THE RULE OF THE STRONG, THE TUMBLE OF GRENADA APPEALS FOR JUSTICE". 00:41:21 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1983
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1980s
- File Name: VM-1349