- Title: VM-1063
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:31:55 - "WHITES OF THEIR EYES" SPANNING 181 YEARS OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, THE FILM DESCRIBES THE "CITIZEN SOLDIERS" & HIS RESPONSE TO THE NATION'S CALL TO ARMS. COVERS BOTH WORLD WARS & MAJOR U.S. EVENTS FROM 1918 TO THE PRESENT. ARMY RESERVE. HISTORY OF AMERICA. 00:32:00 - NARRATOR TELLS OF THE CITIZEN SOLDIER 'THE MINUTE MEN' THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. HE AGAIN TELLS OF THE ARMY RESERVE. 00:32:40 - MONTAGE- MARCHING RUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN MOSCOW SQUARE, MARCHING NAZI SOLDIERS DURING WWII, SKIES FILLED WITH NAZI PLANES AND THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR SHOWING EXPLODING BATTLESHIP 'ARIZONA'. 00:33:01 - LS- CHEERING CROWD AT TIMES SQUARE AT WAR'S END. 00:33:16 - MS- MAO TSE TUNG CHATTING WITH A FOLLOWER. 00:33:24 - MONTAGE- SMOKE BELLOWING OUT OF FACTORY CHIMNEYS 00:33:34 - CU- THE MINUTEMEN 'LIBERTY OR DEATH' INSIGNA. 00:33:39 - MS- HANDS OF A COLONIAL FARMER HANGING HIS FLINT LOCK, PAN TO POSTER ABOVE FIREPLACE "STRENGTH IN RESERVE" MS- PAINTING OF MINUTE MAN HOLDING A PLOW AND A RIFLE. 00:33:54 - MS- MAN SPRAYING HIS BUSHES WITH A HAND HELD SPRAYER. WITH HIS HEAD DOWN HE STARTS TO CLIP WEEDS AND ALMOST BUMPS HEADS WITH A YOUNG NEIGHBOR DOING THE SAME. 00:35:25 - MS- A NAZI TANK BURNING FIERCELY DURING WWII. 00:35:33 - MONTAGE- DRAWINGS OF COLONIAL AMERICANS DURING REVOLUTIONARY WAR, INCLUDING PAUL REVERE RIDE AND OTHER ACTION SCENES ON LAND AND SEA. 00:37:35 - CU- THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES WITH THE AUTHORIZATION OF AN ARMY OF 80 MEN. 00:37:42 - MS- ANIMATED DRAWINGS SHOW THE ARMY UNIFORM AND TELLS OF THE INCREASING AND DECREASING STRENGTH DURING THE WAR OF 1812, THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR AND THE CIVIL WAR. MS- CIVIL WAR DRAWINGS. 00:38:24 - MS- BLACKS PICKING COTTON IN THE SOUTH. 00:38:45 - LS- WAGON TRAIN BEING ATTACKED BY INDIANS AND THE CAVALRY COMING TO THE RESCUE. 00:39:00 - MS- DRAWINGS SHOWING THE DEVOLOPMENT OF THE CANNON 00:39:10 - MS- CZAR NICHOLAS OF RUSSIA AND HIS CZARINA CLIMB INTO A CARRIAGE AS HIS SUBJECTS WATCH. LS- RUSSIAN SOLDIERS MARCHING BEFORE THE REVOLUTION. 00:39:30 - MONTAGE- WORLD WAR I BATTLE SCENES AND THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF WAR BY WOODROW WILSON. CU- WILSON'S SIGNATURE ON THE DOCUMENT. 00:39:51 - LS- AMERICAN SOLDIERS MARCHING AT THE FRONT. CU- GENERAL JOHN PERSHING SPEAKS TO DOUGHBOY. LS- AMERICANS GOING 'OVER THE TOP', UNDER FIRE. 00:40:00 - MONTAGE- WILD CELEBRATION SCENES IN TIMES SQUARE AT END OF WWI. AERIAL- U.S. TROOPS MARCH DOWN BROADWAY LED BY GENERAL PERSHING ON HORSEBACK. 00:40:02 - MS- DRAWING SHOWS THE AMERICAN ARMY SHRINKING FROM OVER 4,000,000 TO 120,000. 00:40:10 - MONTAGE- WWI ARMY TANKS ARE DISMANTLED AND CUT UP FOR SCRAP WITH WELDING TORCHES. 00:40:20 - CU- A SMILING CHARLES LINDBERGH AND THE 'SPIRIT OF ST.LOUIS' TAKING OFF FOR IT'S FAMOUS RIDE. 00:40:46 - LS- BABE RUTH HITS A HOMER. 00:40:51 - CU- NEWSPAPER HEADLINE IN THE NEW YORK CHRONICLE "CRASH IN WALL STREET". 00:40:53 - LS- HUGE BREAD LINE IN NEW YORK AND DEJECTED MEN EATING A HOT MEAL IN A MISSION. 00:41:00 - LS- ITALIAN ARMY ON PARADE IN 1933 COMPARES WITH THE BEER MARCH IN NEW YORK. 00:41:15 - MS- GERMAN MECHANIZED FORCES ON MOTORCYCLES IN 1934 COMPARES WITH MARCHING U.S. ARMY TROOPS WHOSE BUDGET WAS REDUCED 15 MILLION DOLLARS BY CONGRESS 00:41:29 - LS- JAPANESE TROOPS CHARGE A CHINESE BASTION AS JAPAN INVADES CHINA. MS- A CHINESE SOLDIER CARRIES A WOUNDED BUDDY ON HIS SHOULDERS. AERIAL- WHILE IN THE U.S. THOUSANDS CHEER AS ALABAMA INVADES WEST TO BEAT STANFORD IN ROSE BOWL 00:41:54 - MS- YOUNG BOY WINDS UP AND PITCHES A BASEBALL IN A SAND LOT GAME IN 1936, WHILE RUSSIA MOBILIZES 00:42:09 - LS- FRENCH SOLDIERS RIDE IN RAIL CARS THROUGH TUNNELS OF THE MAGINOT LINE IN 1937. CU- COPY OF MARGARET MITCHELL'S 'GONE WITH THE WIND' IN 1937. 00:42:35 - MS- IRON WORKERS PILE SCRAP IRON HIGH FOR SALE TO JAPAN IN 1938. 00:42:40 - MS- ITALIAN TROOPS WHEEL THEIR BICYCLES AS THEY INVADE ALBANIA IN 1939. LS- THE SPHERE AND PYLON AT THE 1939 WORLD'S FAIR IN NEW YORK. THE THEME 'WORLD'S PEACE'. 00:43:00 - MONTAGE- WAR SCENES OF GERMANY'S CONQUESTS INCLUDE SCENES OF DUNKIRK, GERMAN TROOPS MARCHING INTO PARIS AND THE DEVASTATING BOMBING OF LONDON. 00:44:58 - LS- PRESIDENT FDR SPEAKS TO CONGRESS ON DECEMBER 16, 1940 IN FAVOR OF A DRAFT PASSED BY CONGRESS. 00:45:14 - LS- NUMBERS ARE DRAWN FROM A FISHBOWL TO START THE DRAFT. 00:45:21 - MS- NEW DRAFTEE TRIES ON HIS UNIFORM. MS- SOLDIERS TRAIN WITH A FAKE MACHINEGUN 00:45:42 - MONTAGE- JEEPS BECOME AIRBOUND AS THEY SPEED OVER A RIDGE. MS- SOAP BOX DERBY IN AKRON, OHIO. MS- DEMOLITION DERBY WITH OLD JALOPIES CRASHING INTO EACH OTHER. 00:47:00 - MONTAGE- WORLD WAR SCENES FROM NORTH AFRICA TO D-DAY LANDING ON NORMANDY BEACH, THE MARCHING INTO PARIS AND THE DEFEAT OF THE GERMAN ARMY. 00:49:33 - CU- PAN OF FACES OF BEATEN GERMAN SOLDIERS AFTER SURRENDER. 00:49:45 - MS- GENERAL GEORGE PATTON WITH HIS PEARL-HANDLED REVOLVER WAVES TO ADVANCING TANKS. 00:54:14 - MS- MAN AND HIS YOUNG NEIGHBOR TAKE OFF IN THEIR 2 TONE CHEVY FOR A RIDE TO THE ARMY RESERVE HEADQUARTERS. 00:54:20 - LS- SOVIET LEADERS WATCH A HUGE MILITARY PARADE IN MOSCOW FROM ATOP THE KREMLIN WALL
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1918
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1910s
- File Name: VM-1063