Kim Phuc video?
April 21, 2007 5:13 PM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

Is there video of Kim Phuc and the napalm attack as well as the world famous photograph?

It apparently stars with a road and in the distance a temple in the trees where Kim Phuc and her family are hiding. There is an explosion /fireball then after a while figures emerge and run towards the camera in the manner of the iconic photograph.

I don't doubt there might be footage, but I've never seen it and I can't find any reference to this online, let alone the actual footage which I presume would be online by now. Does it exist or is the person who told me about this getting mixed up? If it exists is there a reason it isn't more widely publicised given that plenty of other disturbing war footage exists in the public domain?
posted by oxala to media & arts (9 comments total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
"Film footage of Kim PhĂșc running from her village was shot by British news cameraman Alan Downes, then on assignment for ITN." *
posted by ericb at 5:16 PM on April 21, 2007


Downes's video footage here.
posted by ericb at 5:19 PM on April 21, 2007 [2 favorites]


BTW -- video footage not for the squeamish -- especially the images of the baby with skin hanging off of his body.
posted by ericb at 5:19 PM on April 21, 2007


Thanks, I did search for this intensely on google to no avail.
posted by oxala at 5:21 PM on April 21, 2007


Bloody hell.

I'd never seen the bit with the baby before.
posted by knapah at 2:55 AM on April 22, 2007


that is some fucked up shit!
posted by jannw at 5:59 AM on April 22, 2007


I never knew that video existed...haunting.
posted by lobstah at 6:57 AM on April 22, 2007


I've seen other film of this too. At about 0:55 there's a man on the left filming. I'm pretty sure I've seen that video (black-and-white) somewhere. More clear in this second film are the two soldiers up the road. The one on the right is taking a photo with a still camera.
posted by rlk at 7:13 AM on April 22, 2007


Just awful.
posted by aliasless at 2:13 AM on April 23, 2007


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