Comments on: Kim Phuc video?

Question: Kim Phuc video?

oxala — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:13:36 -0800

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?

By: ericb

ericb — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:16:57 -0800

"Film footage of Kim Phúc running from her village was shot by British news cameraman Alan Downes, then on assignment for ITN." ^*

By: ericb

ericb — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:19:05 -0800

Downes's video footage here.

By: ericb

ericb — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:19:58 -0800

BTW -- video footage not for the squeamish -- especially the images of the baby with skin hanging off of his body.

By: oxala

oxala — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:21:36 -0800

Thanks, I did search for this intensely on google to no avail.

By: knapah

knapah — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:55:21 -0800

Bloody hell.

I'd never seen the bit with the baby before.

By: jannw

jannw — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:59:35 -0800

that is some fucked up shit!

By: lobstah

lobstah — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:57:29 -0800

I never knew that video existed...haunting.

By: rlk

rlk — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:13:52 -0800

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.

By: aliasless

aliasless — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:13:38 -0800

Just awful.