The Vietnam Memories program was made from 1,510 television reports (more than 6,000 minutes of documentary film) about Vietnam in the years 1964-1981, converted to digital film from 16mm film material purchased from Nihon Dempa News (NDN) Television Company of Japan. The only and priceless color film footage about Hanoi in particular and northern Vietnam in general during this special historical period. NDN Film Company has been present in Vietnam since the early 60s of the last century and its cameramen have diligently filmed every aspect of Vietnamese society during those turbulent and heroic years. Like historians in the language of documentary cinema, they have continuously made films about the lives of Vietnamese people from day to day, year to year, for 17 years and this source of film has been carefully preserved with very good quality. Viewers of all generations, especially young people, will be brought back to emotional memories of the past, from images of queuing during the subsidy period to the joyful faces of children on the first day of school, the jubilant scene of the Independence Day on September 2nd, students wearing straw bomb-proof hats on the way to class, quickly entering bomb shelters or scenes of couples dating and weddings taking place next to anti-aircraft guns when the gun smoke had not yet cleared. A Hanoi bustling with joy is also shown through the image of the Trung Tu prefabricated apartment complex that was newly opened during the years when the North was building socialism. In addition, the filmmakers also introduced the old photo studios in the Hoan Kiem Lake area and the Hang Luoc flower market on Tet holiday in 1973 right after the days of B52 carpet bombing, from which viewers can better understand a thousand-year-old Hanoi of culture, gallant and elegant during the war, but also very simple and full of humanity. It was also a difficult subsidy period with long lines of food stores and state-owned trade stores, people lining up from morning to evening, patiently receiving ration stamps for each bunch of vegetables, fish, yard of cloth, matchbox... Despite the hardship, people were still full of optimism, still aiming for a noble goal of supporting the front line "All for the beloved South" and unifying the country.
According to editor Xuan Tung of Vietnam Television, who contributed to bringing documentary films and precious memories from Japan to Vietnam, buying the copyright was a very coincidental and lucky thing. In particular, the Japanese Film Company helped enthusiastically and did not focus on the cost when transferring this film archive. After four years of negotiating the copyright, VTV bought the exclusive rights to this film archive in 2010. After a long time of watching and exploiting the precious film archive, Vietnamese documentary filmmakers have filtered 208 episodes and built the program Vietnam Memories. Each episode is a little-known story of a simple but great historical period, heroic fighting and full of love spanning many fields of politics, history, culture, and the daily life of our people.
Broadcasting the program Vietnam Memories will help today's generations appreciate more the glorious historical past and better understand what strength made our nation's victory in the war against the US to save the country in the past and in the early period of building and defending the Fatherland after the country's reunification in 1975.
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