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Norman Lloyd's Shakey's Hill is one of the most talked-about documentaries of 2007. Created from footage he shot as a CBS News combat cameraman in Vietnam and Cambodia in the early 1970s,...
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Norman Lloyd in Vietnam. The former CBS cameraman went along with the men of Bravo Company of the 5th Battalion 7th Cavalry into the Cambodian jungle 40 years ago. His footage shows them in action as they discovered NVA weapons and supply caches and wound up in a sharp fight at a place called Shakey’s Hill.
Norman Nathan Lloyd (né Perlmutter; November 8, 1914 – May 11, 2021) was an American actor, producer, director, and centenarian with a career in entertainment spanning nearly a century. He worked in every major facet of the industry, including theatre, radio, television, and film, with a career that started in 1923.
THE TWINKLE IN NORMAN LLOYD’S EYES disappears when he recalls his combat assignments for CBS News during the Vietnam War. “So many guys were killed or wounded. It was a terrible, terrible...
In 1970, Norman Lloyd followed a battalion of American soldiers into the jungles of Cambodia. The film contains interviews from the field, in 1970, as well as retrospective interviews with the soldiers collected in 2004, exploring not only the events leading up to the mission’s success, but also the after effects of war, on the soldiers, some ...
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Nov 12, 2007 · The Khmer Rouge had fired a mortor and knocked the whole crew ground. This took place in about 1972 or '73. Norman Lloyd has a towel he was going to wrap around Ed Bradleys wound.
Jun 17, 2007 · “Norman Lloyd's documentary on the 5th Battalion 7th Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam is a masterpiece, one of those films that haunt you for weeks and weeks. Rarely has a movie-maker reached this deep into the soul, the fear, the love-of-friend that emerge from the terrors of battle.
