https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8ce3c89c-f975-409f-a9ab-9d655cd13ab4 This black & white film promotes financial relief for the people of South Korea, who are in desperate need of assistance due to the outbreak of the Korean War. In particular, the film emphasis the need to donate to help displaced civilians, refugees and orphaned children of that war ravaged country. The film offers a personal appeal by President Dwight Eisenhower. Copyright 1954. Opening titles: Helping Koreans To Help Themselves (:07-:46). Artillery is fired, explosions abound. Troops on the move. American soldiers fire guns. Homes on fire. Rubble and destruction is everywhere. Dead Koreans. Child walk. Refugees on the move. A Korean child. Orphans homeless (:47-2:02). Innocent orphaned children. Koreans try and clean up. American soldier shakes hands with a Korean man. Our host speaks to the viewer about Korea and what the people of that country need. Dr. Howard A. Rusk speaks about what Koreans need (2:03-4:06). Korea being fixed up. Livestock. A man stands among rubble. Sick in a hospital. Injured people. Donations can be sent to the American Korean Foundation. Dr. Rusk speaks about donations. Rally for the American Korean Foundation. Korean and American flags fly. A rally to get money for Korea. A 'Help Korea' train leaves the terminal in New York City (4:07-5:44). Other trains are also collecting items for Korea. San Francisco Bay. Supplies are loaded into a ship bound for Korea (5:45-6:44). Henry C. Alexander speaks. An American mother speaks on helping the people of Korea. James Van Fleet speaks, he was a U.S. Army officer during World War I, World War II and the Korean War. U.S. soldiers fighting during the Korean War. Injured American soldiers (6:45-8:43). Statue of Liberty. Korean children near James Van Fleet. Children sing. Orphaned Korean children in America. Bus load of the children drives off. Children play with Korean nuns. Children eat. James Van Fleet speaks about helping the Koreans (8:44-10:53). White House in Washington, D.C. President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower speaks on the gifts of America being sent to Korea. He talks in length on what is being done (10:54-12:24). End credits (12:25-12:32). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgPetS9TKKE Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:29:05 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8ce3c89c-f975-409f-a9ab-9d655cd13ab4 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.