- Title: VM-1062
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:03:20 - "MILITARY JUSTICE" THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE. HOW THE ARMY'S LAWS BEGAN, WHO MADE THEM & WHO CONTINUES TO MAKE THEM. HIGHLIGHTS STAGES COURTROOM SEQUENCES. COURT MARTIAL. 00:03:25 - EIGHT OFFICER-JUDGES SIT AT PODIUM IN A COURTROOM AND HEAR A CASE. 00:03:55 - WITH THE GI DEFENDANT & HIS OFFICER LAWYE PRESENT THE COURT COMES TO ORDER AND TRIAL STARTS 00:05:05 - MONTAGE REENACTED SCENES OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS WEARY AND BADLY CLOTHED, MARCHING & FIGHTING LED BY GENERAL WASHINGTON. 00:05:37 - BELLS RINGING SUPERIMPOSED OVER THE SIGNING OF THE CONSTITUTION. 00:05:41 - CU AMERICAN ARTICLES OF WAR OF 1775 DOCUMENT. 00:05:49 - BETSY ROSS SEWING THE FLAG. CU JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL'S CORP ENSIGNIA. 00:06:31 - CONGRESS IN SESSION. CU THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE BOOK CREATED BY CONGRESS. 00:07:01 - ARMY & NAVY MILITARY POLICEMEN CHECK SOLDIERS CREDENTIALS ON A TRAIN. 00:07:49 - AN OFFICER READS DOWN A GI & GIVES HIM WARNING FOR BEING CAUGHT OUT OF UNIFORM 00:08:40 - AN OFFICER GIVES ANOTHER GI MORE SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR BEING DRUNK AND DISORDERLY & RECORDS IT IN THE UNIT PUNISHMENT BOOK 00:08:44 - AN OFFICER TELLS A GI HE IS RECOMMENDING TRIAL BY COURT MARTIAL. THE GI SITS IN COURTROOM WITH THE MILITARY JUDGES. 00:09:39 - AS GI DEFENDANT WATCHES, GI WITNESS IS SWORN IN & CROSS EXAMINED. 00:10:10 - NARRATOR EXPLAINS 3 TYPES OF COURT MARTIALS. THE SUMMARY, SPECIAL AND GENERAL COURTS-MARTIAL 00:10:13 - ONE COMMISSIONED OFFICER HEARS A CASE IN SUMMARY COURT MARTIAL THE GI SITS AT THE OFFICERS DESK & IS GIVEN MINOR PUNISHMENT 00:10:37 - A SPECIAL COURTS-MARTIAL WITH 4 OFFICERS HEARS A MORE SEVERE CASE WITH THE GI ASSIGNED A COUNSEL & THE ARMY, A PROSECUTOR. 00:10:58 - EIGHT OFFICERS SIT AT A GENERAL COURTS-MARTIAL AND IS PRECEEDED BY AN INVESTIGATION. 00:12:10 - THE INVESTIGATING OFFICER QUESTIONS A WITNESS IN HIS OFICE WITH THE ACCUSED COUNSEL PRESENT 00:12:39 - THE INVESTIGATING OFFICER SITS AT HIS DESK, LIGHTS UP A CIGARETTE & READS HIS DOCUMENTS HE RECOMMENDS CONVENING A COURT MARTIAL. 00:13:13 - QUALIFIED ATTORNEY KNOWN AS THE LAW OFFICER GUIDES THE COURT AND INSTRUCTS THEM ON THE LAW. 00:14:52 - AN OFFICER EXPLAINS THE BASIC RULES OF THE COURT TO THE STANDING GI-DEFENDANT 00:17:15 - THE UNITED STATES COURT OF MILITARY APPEAL. 00:17:28 - COURT CLERK BANGS GAVEL & INTRODUCES THE 3 CIVILIAN JUDGES OF MILITARY APPEAL AS THEY TAKE THE BENCH. 00:17:39 - CU BANGING GAVEL 00:17:51 - THE JUDGES HEAR A MILITARY OFFICER MAKE AN APPEAL FOR HIS GI CLIENT WHO WAS FOUND GUILTY AT THE COURTS-MARTIAL. 00:19:03 - ON HIS WAY TO WORK, TOM DECIDES TO GO FISHING IN A BROOK FROM A SMALL BRIDGE. 00:19:33 - TOM ARRIVES LATE TO WORK & HIS BOSS GESTURES TO HIS WATCH AND YELLS AT HIM. 00:19:42 - CU BESSIE SMITH POUNDS HER TYPEWRITER AT GREAT SPEED. SHE GETS UP AND ASKS HER BOSS FOR A RAISE AFTER VERBALLY BLASTING THE BOSS SHE QUITS. 00:21:10 - HARRY, TIE SALESMAN IN A DEPARTMENT STORE, TELLS OFF HIS MANAGER & IS FIRED. 00:22:01 - THE SAME HARRY AS A GI REFUSES TO OBEY HIS LIEUTENANT IN A BUNKER RESULTING IN DEATH OF OTHER GIS. 00:22:54 - BESSIE THE TYPIST, NOW IN UNIFORM DECIDES SHE SHOULD GET A PROMOTION. SHE TELLS HER LIEUTENANT. SHE QUITS AND WALKS OUT WHEN HE DENIES HER. 00:23:47 - CU HER UNATTENDED TELETYPE MACHINE SENDS 3 IMPORTANT URGENT MESSAGES WHICH DO NOT GET THROUGH. 00:24:42 - WHILE ON A HIKE DURING BASIC TRAINING, TOM & HIS SQUAD SIT ON THE GROUND FOR A REST HE SPOTS A STREAM & GOES FISHING AND STAYS ALL NIGHT. 00:25:33 - TOM SPRUCES HIMSELF UP BEFORE HE ENTERS HIS BARRACKS. DID HE AND THE OTHERS DO WRONG? NARRATOR EXPLAINS ARMY LAW OF MILITARY JUSTICE. 00:28:17 - CU HONORABLE DISCHARGE DOCUMENT SUPERIMPOSED OVER SCENES OF A GI RETURNING HOME.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1955
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1062