The Marcellus Hartman Collection consists of over 300 Super 8 films made by Hartman, a Texan, while serving in the military in Vietnam in the early 1970s. The films document everyday life on his base, capturing the comings and goings of soldiers and others who worked on the base, helicopters arriving and taking off, and images of the surrounding landscape from Hartman’s visits to cities and other military locations in Vietnam. This film captures scenes of soldiers’ arrival in Vietnam, with overhead footage shot from the plane. It also features a look around the Freedom Hill camp, from the military barracks to Vietnamese tenement housing to the Pacific Stars and Stripes Bookstore.

TFC army military soldier United States Army US Army army post post military base base

war Vietnam Vietnam War 1970s 1970's home movie airplane plane airport countryside

coast coastline overhead shot flight boat ship city landing tarmac airfield

uniform cigarette smoking military checkpoint hospital takeoff departure deployment cargo MP

military police loading unloading shovel construction housing camp military camp barracks tenement housing

slums Freedom Hill Freedom Hill Exchange river marsh marshland motorcycle local market telephone

telephone pole technician disembark