- Title: VM-1046
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:02:00 - "TIME TO GO" "OBSOLETE FILM". THE SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM & THE NEED FOR MILITARY PREPAREDNESS 00:02:45 - NARRATOR TELLS THE STORY OF THE SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM IN THE U.S. DURING PEACETIME. 00:03:47 - MAJOR GENERAL LOUIS B. HERSHEY, DIRECTOR OF THE SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM SPEAKS AND EXPLAINS IT'S MISSION. 00:05:20 - MS- A SQUAD OF DRAFTED SOLDIERS PRACTICE DRILLS. MS- AFTER THE GRUELING DRILLS 2 DRAFTEES SIT ON THEIR COTS AND CHAT ABOUT THE PROS AND CONS OF BEING DRAFTED DURING PEACETIME 00:08:30 - MS- A YOUNG CIVILIAN ENTERS A LOCAL SELECTIVE SERVICE OFFICE TO REGISTER FOR THE DRAFT. HE SITS AT THE DESK OF A FEMALE WORKER WHO INTERVIEWS HIM AND TYPES UP ALL THE PERTINENT INFORMATION. 00:09:20 - MS- THE FEMALE WORKER EXPLAINS THE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS AND ADVISES HIM OF ALL HIS OPTIONS AND THE APPEAL SYSTEM. 00:15:12 - MS- 4 MEMBERS OF THE APPEAL BOARD MEET IN AN OFFICE TO DISCUSS A CASE. CU- A MEMBER OPENS THE BALLOTS AFTER A VOTE BY THE 4 MEMBERS. 00:15:44 - MS- A GOVERNMENT APPEAL AGENT, A LAWYER, PERUSES FILE OF A CLIENT HE REPRESENTS IN AN APPEAL CASE, FREE OF CHARGE. 00:16:09 - MS- WOMEN AT THEIR DESKS AT A BUSY SELECTIVE SERVICE OFFICE. 00:16:23 - LS- NEW YORK CITY & WASHINGTON, D.C. CITYSCAPES. 00:16:46 - MS- AN AGENT EXPLAINS THE POLICY OF DEFERMENT FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THEIR OPTIONS. 00:17:13 - MS- THE DRAFTEE SITS IN THE LIVING ROOM WITH A TV AND DISCUSSES HIS COLLEGE DEFERMENT AND THE ROTC WITH HIS FATHER. 00:20:32 - LS- HUNDREDS OF WORKERS SITTING AT THEIR DRAFTING TABLES IN A PLANT. MS- SPARKS SPEWING OUT OF A BLAST FURNACE IN A STEEL MILL AND SCIENTISTS LOOKING THROUGH A LARGE TELESCOPE ALL QUALIFY FOR DEFERMENT OF THE DRAFT. 00:21:17 - MS- A FARMER RUNS HIS TRACTOR THROUGH THE HIGH CORN STALKS, ANOTHER FEEDS THE CHICKENS. MS- PIGLETS SUCKLE A SOW. MS- A FARMER MILKS A COW. 00:22:04 - A GROUP OF DRAFTEES ENTER AN INDUCTION CENTER AND GO THROUGH THE PROCEDURES INCLUDING PHYSICAL EXAMS, I.Q.TESTS, SIGN LOYALTY OATHS. 00:23:38 - MS- DRAFTEE RECEIVES HIS NOTICE ANF PHONES HIS GIRL FRIEND. SHE RESPONDS FROM HER OFFICE DESK. 00:25:08 - MS- THE DRAFTEE SHAKES WITH HIS FATHER AND KISSES HIS MOM GOODBYE. MS- A WAVES GOODBYE TO HIS HOUSE. MS- HE KISSES HIS GIRL GOODBYE OUTSIDE THE INDUCTION CENTER. 00:25:08 - MS- THE DRAFTEES ARE SWORN INTO THE ARMY AT THE CENTER PLACED ON BUSES AND DRIVEN TO CAMP. 00:27:00 - MONTAGE- NEW DRAFTEES GOING THROUGH BASIC TRAINING (PREVIOUSLY LOGGED). 00:31:00 - "THE 24TH INFANTRY DIVISION IN KOREA" THE STORY OF THE 24TH INFANTRY DIVISION. THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF SIX DIVISION HISTORIES TO BE COVERED IN SUBSEQUENT ISSUES. 00:31:23 - NARRATOR TELLS THE STORY OF 24TH INFANTRY DIVISION AS OCCUPATION FORCES IN JAPAN AND THEIR HEROIC DUTY IN KOREA. HE SHOWS THEIR LOGO. 00:32:18 - LS- A GI UNCOVERS A MONUMENT TO THE 24TH INFANTRY DIVISION ON A HILLTOP AT ORSAN, KOREA. MS-A KOREAN VIP PLACES A WREATH AT BASE OF MONUMENT. MS- AN HONOR GUARD FIRES VOLLEYS AND A BUGLER SOUNDS 'TAPS' 00:33:35 - MS- GENERAL MACARTHUR SALUTES AS HE WALKS OUT OF HIS HEADQUARTERS IN JAPAN. LS- A U.S. MP DIRECTS TRAFFIC IN TOKYO AND JAPANESE POLICE RIDE IN A JEEP WITH U.S. MPS. 00:34:10 - MONTAGE- NORTH KOREAN TROOPS AND TANKS PREPARE TO INVADE SOUTH KOREA. 00:34:50 - LS- THE UNITED NATIONS IN SESSION FOLLOWING THE INVASION. 00:35:12 - LS- MEN OF THE 24TH INFANTRY DIVISION BOARD PLANES TO KOREA, BEING THE 1ST U.S. FORCE TO GO. 00:35:57 - LS- LONG COLUMNS OF INFANTRY OF THE 24TH TAKE TO THE ROADS IN KOREA PASSING UNSMILING PEASANTS IN VILLAGES AND GHOSTLY EMPTY TOWNS. 00:36:40 - MONTAGE- BATTLE SCENES SHOWN HAVE BEEN LOGGED PREVIOUSLY. 00:37:35 - MS- THE REST OF THE 24TH DIVISION BOARD SHIPS IN KYUSHU WITH MEN AND WEAPONS FOR KOREA. 00:38:24 - MS- A BARE CHESTED GI DIGS A FOXHOLE FOR A STAND AGAINST ADVANCING REDS 00:38:47 - MS- LT. GENERAL WALKER, COMMANDER OF THE 8TH ARMY AND MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM DEAN COMMANDER OF THE 24TH DIVISION PERUSE A MAP AT THE FRONT. 00:40:33 - LS- TRAPPED GIS OF THE 24TH FIGHT IN THE STREETS OF TAEJON. GENERAL DEAN IS AMONG THEM AND IS SUBSEQUENTLY CAPTURED. 00:41:35 - LS- A DEAD GI LIES SLOPED BACK IN THE DRIVERS SEAT OF HIS JEEP 00:44:00 - MS- AFTER 55 DAYS OF COMBAT MEN OF THE 24TH RELAX AND LIE DOWN ON GROUND TO SLEEP, TAKE BATHS IN A LOCAL STREAM AND CHANGING THEIR SOCKS. 00:46:43 - MONTAGE- SCENES OF THE INCHON LANDING BY MACARTHUR, THE MARCH TO THE YALU THE CHINESE ENTRY IN THE WAR AND THE SUBSEQUENT TRUCE FOLLOWS ALL PREVIOUSLY LOGGED. 00:47:40 - MS- (PAN) CROWDS OF CHILDREN AND PEASANTS HAVE PUZZLED LOOKS ON THEIR FACES AS THE MEN OF THE 24TH RE-ENTER TAEJON, THE CITY OF THEIR MOST HEARTBREAKING DEFEAT. . 00:57:20 - LS- THE 24TH DIVISION MARCHES FOR THE LAST TIME IN KOREA ON NOVEMBER 9, 1954. KOREAN PRESIDENT RHEE AND OTHERS WATCH PARADE.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1954
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1046