- Title: VM-1098A
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:02:53 - MS- CHANGING OF THE GUARD AT TOMB OF 3 UNKNOWN SOLDIERS AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, INCLUDING MONUMENTS OF A SOLDIER FROM WWI, WWII & KOREA. 00:03:43 - MONTAGE- MONUMENTS AND STATUES IN VILLAGE SQUARES AND PUBLIC GROUNDS THROUGHOUT THE U.S. OF DATING FROM REVOLUTIONARY WAR MINUTE MAN TO KOREA. 00:04:43 - MONTAGE- REENACTMENT OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR MINUTEMEN FIRING ON BRITISH SOLDIERS FROM THE BRUSH AND CHASING THEM ACROSS CONCORD BRIDGE. 00:05:18 - MS- RAGGED BATALLION OF TROOPS OF ALL AGES MARCH ALONG A FARM ROAD AND BEING JOINED BY TOILING FARMERS ALONG THE WAY. 00:05:44 - LS- GEORGE WASHINGTON ON A HORSE WITH 2 OTHER HORSEMEN LOOKING OUT TO THE BATTLEFIELD ON A HILL 00:05:48 - LS- DRUMMER BOY BEATING HIS DRUM IS SILHOUTTED BY THE EVENING SKY. LS- FARMERS GATHER OUTSIDE FORT AND LINE UP WITH THEIR LONG RIFLES. 00:05:59 - LS- THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS IN SESSION. 00:06:17 - LS- BRITISH SOLDIERS SET UP A SKIRMISH LINE AND FIRE ON A RAGGED ARMY OF AMERICANS ADVANCING TOWARDS THEM IN A FIELD. A BATTLE ENSUES 00:06:35 - LS- WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE IN THE BITTER COLD AND SNOW. 00:06:39 - MONTAGE- CONTINENTAL ARMY MARCH ON A SNOWY ROAD DURING A BLIZZARD. MS- LARGE BELL RINGS SUPERIMPOSED OVER CHEERING COLONISTS AT WAR END. 00:07:09 - MS- ARMY OF COLONISTS MARCH OUT OF FORT FOLLOWED BY RUNNING WOMEN SENDING THEM OFF 00:07:23 - LS- NEW AMERICAN FLAG WITH 13 STARS AND 7 STRIPES IS RAISED OVER A FORT. CU- THE CONSTITUTION AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS IS SUPERIMPOSED OVER A MEETING BY THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. 00:07:55 - MONTAGE- SCENES OF AMRICAN LANDSCAPES AND SEASCAPES. 00:08:11 - MONTAGE- ENACTMENTS OF AMERICAN BATTLE SCENES WITH BRITISH SOLDIERS IN THE WAR OF 1812. 00:08:23 - LS- AMERICAN FIGHTERS SOME WITH COONSKIN HATS CHARGE THE BRITISH AT THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS. 00:08:33 - LS- AMERICAN LAND BATTERIES AT FORT MCHENRY FIRE AT ATTACKING BRITISH WARSHIPS. HERE, THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER WAS INSPIRED BY FRANCIS SCOTT KEY 00:09:00 - CU- THE 15 STAR U.S. FLAG BLOWING IN THE WIND 00:09:20 - MONTAGE- AMERICANS FIGHTING MEXICAN TROOPS AT THE ALAMO, AND THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR (REENACTMENT) 00:10:33 - MONTAGE- REENACTMENT OF BATTLE SCENES OF THE CIVIL WAR, THE MOST TRAGIC OF ALL WARS. 00:10:55 - MS- CHARGING REBEL SOLDIERS SOME PULLING CANNONS AND RETREATING UNION SOLDIERS RUNNING ACROSS A BRIDGE IN THICK SMOKE. 00:11:55 - LS- MEN FALL ON BOTH SIDES AS UNION AND REBEL SOLDIERS BATTLE EACH OTHER WITH BOMBS BURSTING AMID THEM. 00:12:47 - LS- UNION AND REBEL ARMIES FACE EACH OTHER AT THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN WHERE SPECTACULAR PLANS WERE BRILLIANTLY EXECUTED AND MODERN WARFARE WAS BORN 00:13:03 - LS- DEAD CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS LITTER THE FIELD (REENACTMENT) 00:13:24 - MONTAGE- CHAOTIC BATTLE SCENES WITH CAVALRYMEN DUELING WITH SWORDS, ARTILLERY AND INFANTRY FIGHTING LARGE SCALE BATTLES IN TRENCHES. 00:14:05 - LS- COVERED WAGONS AND PEOPLE SETTLING A TOWN (PAN) LS- COVERED WAGON TRAINS ON THE PLAINS. LS- A 14 MULE TEAM PULLING A COVERED WAGON. 00:14:38 - LS- AN INDIAN ON A HORSE AT TOP OF HILL LOOKING OUT ON THE LAND. LS- LARGE INDIAN TRIBE GALLOPING ACROSS THE PLAINS. NATIVE AMERICAN 00:14:58 - LS- A MOTHER RUNS OUT TO PICK UP HER BABY GIRL SITTING ON GROUND NEAR THEIR BURNING HOME, AS ATTACKING INDIAN RIDE BY. 00:15:10 - MS CAVALRY SOLDIER BLOWS BUGLE TO LEAD CHARGE LS- A CAVALRY TROOP CHARGES AND FIRES ON FLEEING INDIANS. CAVALRY AND INDIANS CHARGE AT EACH OTHER. MONTAGE- FALLING BODIES ON BOTH SIDES AND HAND TO HAND COMBAT. 00:16:26 - CU- THE TURNING WHEELS OF A COVERED WAGON. 00:16:42 - LS- CROWDS OF CHEERING PEOPLE AND WORKERS LAYING TRACK AS THE TRAIN SLOWLY PULLS IN TO THE FINISHED TRACKS. 00:16:50 - LS- MEN WITH SACKS OF SEED FOLLOW A PLOW AND BROADCAST SEED BY HAND. 00:17:01 - LS- AMERICAN SOLDIERS FILL THE SHORELINE OF CUBA AS OTHERS ROW IN WITH LONG BOATS DURING THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. 00:17:06 - LS- SOLDIERS AND CUBAN CIVILIANS PULL LONG BOATS STACKED WITH SUPPLIES ONTO THE CUBAN SHORE. 00:17:29 - LS- LONG LINE OF CANNON ON WHEELS IS FIRED AT THE ENEMY. (OLD FILM) 00:17:43 - LS- REENACTMANT OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S DASHING CHARGE UP SAN JUAN HILL BY HIS ROUGH RIDERS. 00:18:18 - LS- AMERICAN SOLDIERS PLACE AMERICAN FLAGS ATOP A BUILDING IN CUBA DURING A BATTLE. (OLD FILM) 00:18:28 - LS- AMERICAN TROOPS RIDE INTO MEXICAN DESERT IN SEARCH OF PANCHO VILLA. ARTILLERY CREWS FIRE CANNONS. 00:18:56 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINE: 'WAR', AS AMERICA ENTERS WWI 00:19:01 - LS- AMERICAN DOUGHBOYS MARCHING OFF SHIP IN FRANCE. MONTAGE- AMERICAN SOLDIERS TRUCKS AND AMBULANCES ON ROADS TO AND FROM THE FRONT 00:19:28 - MONTAGE- REENACTMENT OF DOUGHBOYS CHARGING OUT OF THE TRENCHES AND GERMANS MEETING THEM WITH MACHINE GUN, CANNON AND RIFLE FIRE. 00:20:06 - MONTAGE- MEN FALLING ON BOTH SIDES. AS PLANES SWOOP DOWN. (REENACTMENT) 00:20:46 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINE: 'WAR ENDS'. MONTAGE- HUGE CROWDS WAVING U.S. FLAGS 00:20:55 - LS- THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN TROOPS MARCH IN VICTORY TO HUGE CITY CROWDS. 00:21:22 - LS- ADOLF HITLER SPEAKS TO OVER A MILLION GERMAN PEOPLE FROM A ROOF TOP IN HUGE AMPI-THEATER. 00:22:02 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINE: HITLER INVADES POLAND. MONTAGE-GERMAN TROOPS MARCH INTO POLAND. 00:22:38 - MONTAGE- U.S. GIS TRAINING WITH FAKE MACHINEGUNS AND TRUCKS WITH 'TANK' MARKED ON IT. STACK OF EMPTY BEER CANS ACT AS SHELLS FOR ARTILLERY. 00:22:58 - LS- BELLOWING BLACK SMOKE RISES FROM BATTLESHIP HIT AT PEARL HARBOR BY JAPANESE BOMBERS. 00:23:10 - MONTAGE- GIS KISSING THEIR GIRLFRIENDS GOODBYE. 00:23:59 - MONTAGE- PACIFIC WAR SCENES IN JUNGLES AND GIS STORMING BEACHES UNDER FIRE. 00:24:25 - MONTAGE- GIS AIMING AND FIRING THEIR RIFLES AND AUTOMATIC WEAPONS IN TOWNS AND CITIES OF EUROPE. 00:24:53 - CU- GI WITH A HUGE BANDAGE ON HIS EYE, ANOTHER HAVING HIS CHEST BANDAGED AS HE LIES ON GROUND CU- GI SLEEPING SOUNDLY ON GROUND NEXT TO RIFLE. 00:25:55 - MONTAGE- BELLS RING AND WALL TO WALL CROWDS FILL THE STREETS OF EUROPE AND U.S. 00:26:01 - MS- GIRL KISSES GI IN TIMES SQUARE. MS- TICKER TAPE FILLS THE AIR, SERVICEMEN FILL THE STREETS IN HAPPY CELEBRATION. 00:26:27 - MONTAGE- SOLDIERS COMING HOME ARE GREETED BY HAPPY FAMILIES. 00:26:55 - LS- PEACE-TIME HOME BUILDING. MS- VACUUM CLEANERS ON DISPLAY AS WELL AS REFRIGERATORS AND WASHING MACHINES. 00:27:25 - LS- NORTH KOREAN TROOPS HOLD UP THEIR FLAG AS THEY INVADE THE SOUTH. 00:27:35 - MONTAGE- KOREAN BATTLE SCENES. (LOGGED BEFORE) 00:28:42 - SOLDIERS AT MASS WITH PRIEST ON BATTLEFIELD. SOLDIERS WORSHIP ON BATTLEFIELD 00:29:03 - MONTAGE OF SOLDIERS THROUGH THE AGES. REVOLUTIONARY WAR, CIVIL WAR, CAVALRY CHARGE, WORLD WAR ONE AND WORLD WAR ll. SOLDIER SMOKES PIPE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1890
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1890s
- File Name: VM-1098A