- Title: IG-26
- Summary: YOUR STAKE IN TOMORROW: ARMY RECRUITING FILM TELLS OF "THREE YOUNG MEN WHO FOUND A WAY TO "STAKE THEIR CLAIM IN TOMORROW". THREE YOUNG MEN BECOME SKILLED TECHNICIANS IN COUNTRY'S NEWEST "PERSHING" BALLISTIC MISSILE PROGRAM.
- Description:05:06:40 - VARIOUS SHOTS ARMY MISSILE ELECTRONICS TECHNICIANS SERVICING AND PREPARING MOBILE "PERSHING" MISSILE AT SITE IN WOODED AREA. "MANNED BY A FEW, WHOSE RESPONSIBILITIES ARE ENORMOUS, WHOSE SKILLS ARE THE FINEST". "THE JOB OF EVERY MAN ON THE TEAM, IS VITAL TO THE SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES TODAY. 05:07:22 - 4 TECHNICIANS WITH HEAD PHONES ADJUST THEIR GAUGES IN SMALL CONTROL ROOMS AND PANELS. "THESE FEW MEN COMMAND MORE POWER THAN THOUSANDS OF CONVENTIONALLY ARMED TROOPS. " MEN BUSILY PREPARE MISSILE TO STRIKE TARGET HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY. THEIR'S ARE THE NEW HIGH SKILLED JOBS OF THE SPACE AGE". 05:08:05 - CAMERA FOCUS' ON ONE OF THE THREE YOUNG MEN IN QUESTION. VARIOUS SHOTS SPECIALIST DAVE CONNOR SEATED AT HIS POST *EARPHONES) IN SMALL MOBILE CONTROL ROOM WORKING AT VARIETY GAUGES SURROUNDING HIM. VOICE OVER ASKS "HOW DOES SOMEBODY LIKE DAVE CONOR, WITH ONLY A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA TO HIS CREDIT, FIND A JOB LIKE HIS WITH A REAL FUTURE. 05:08:31 - MS YOUNG DAVE CONNOR WEARING APRON, WORKING AS CASHIER IN LOCAL SUPER MARKET WHERE HE WORKED PART TIME IN HIS SENIOR YEAR IN SCHOOL. MS. "I COULDN'T SEE MYSELF IN THAT KIND OF WORK FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE". 05:09:05 - CONNOR, ALL DRESSED IN SUIT AND TIE ENTERS EMPLOYMENT AGENCY, FILLS OUT APPLICATIONS FOR JOBS. VARIOUS SHOTS AGENTS AT DESKS ASKING CONNOR QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS WORK EXPERIENCE, WHICH HE HAS NONE. "SO YOU GOT A STRONG BACK WITH NO EXPERIENCE", SORRY BUDDY BUT WE BUT YOU JUST DON'T HAVE A SPOT WITH THIS CREW, SAYS CONTRACTOR. 05:09:37 - MS CONNOR IDLY SEATED ON LOG AT EDGE OF POND WITH FISHING ROD THROWING STONED IN POND, WATCHING RIPPLE EFFECT OF STONE THROWN IN POND, THINKING "TALKING ABOUT GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES. I HAD NO JOB EXPERIENCE, SO THERE WAS NO JOB. WITHOUT GETTING A JOB, HOW DO YOU GET EXPERIENCE?" 05:09:54 - MS WHILE LOOKING FOR JOB, DAVE COMES ACROSS U. S. ARMY RECRUITMENT POSTER. HE DECIDES TO HAVE TALK WITH UNCLE CHARLIE WHO SERVED IN ARMY. MS CHARLIE TELLS DAVE ALL TOU HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO DO IS AIM AND PULL A TRIGGER. THOUGH DISAPPOINTED, DAVE DECIDES TO SPEAK TO ARMY RECRUITER ABOUT THOSE PPORTUNITIES THEY TALK ABOUT IN ALL THOSE POSTERS. 05:10:23 - MS DAVE CONNER SPEAKING TO ARMY RECRUITING SERGEANT. RECRUITER HANDS HIM APPLICATION FOR TEST. VARIOUS SHOTS DAVE TAKING TESTS WITH OTHER RECRUITS. 05:10:49 - DAVE AND OTHERS STANDING AND BEING SWORN IN. AFTER TEST AND BEFORE BEING SWORN IN, DAVE IS TOLD HE CAN PICK THE EXACT TRAINING SCHOOL HE WANTED. OF COURSE HE HAD TO GO THROUGH USUAL ARMY BASIC TRAINING. 05:10:58 - MS SQUAD OF SOLDIERS FALLING ALL OVER THEMSELVES AS THEY TRY TO MARCH IN ORDERLY FASHION. MS MACHINE GUNNER FIRING LIVE AMMO OVER GIS CRAWLING UNDER BARBED WIRE FENCES. MS SAME SOLDIERS, INCLUDING CONNER, MARCHING IN PROFESSIONAL MANNER, TOWARDS CAMERA, AFTER COMPLETING BASIC TRAINING. "05 11 19 SIGN I "U. S. ARMY ARTILLERY AND MISSILE SCHOOL". PAN HUGE SCHOOL WORK SHOP WITH ,MISSILE SECTIONS AND STUDENTS LISTENING TO INSTRUCTORS USING POINTER TO SHOW CONNOR AND COTHER STUDENTS CONTROL PANELS TO OPERATE MISSILES. CU RETURN TO CONNOR AT HIS POST IN CONTROL ROOM AT MISSILE SITE. GOOD SHOT "PERSHING MISSILE" MOUNTED ON ITS MOBILE LAUNCHER AND CREW SERVICING IT. 05:12:18 - MS MISSILE SPECIALIST DAVE CONNOR DETECTS A SMALL BUT CRITICAL FAULT IN THE ELECTRONIC CONNECTION, MINUTES BEFORE MISSILE SHOULD BE ON ITS WAY. HE REPORTS IT. WITHIN SECONDS BATTALION HEADQUARTERS IS CALLED, ASKING FOR A DIGITAL COMPUTER REPAIRMAN. THESE SPECIALIST ARE LOCATED MILES FROM MISSILE SITE TO SOFTEN ENEMY COUNTER BLOW. ABOVE VIEW SPECIALIST AT HEADQUARTERS SITE BEING DRIVEN BY JEEP TO HELICOPTER, FOR DELIVERY TO MISSILE SITE. MS SPECIALIST SITS IN HELICOPTER. 05:13:20 - MS ZOOM IN HELICOPTER CREW CHIEF WITH FLIGHT HELMET, TEX GODLY. HE CLIMBS IN. MLS HELICOPTER TAKES OFF. 05:14:09 - VARIOUS SHOT TEX GODLY (COWBOY HAT), RIDING PANEL TRUCK ALONG COUNTRY ROAD. STOPS, GETS OUT, MAKES ADJUSTMENTS UNDER THE HOOD. BEFORE HIS ENTRY INTO SERVICE. "I LEARNED TO DRIVE THE OLD HEAP AROUND THE FARM, LONG BEFORE I LEARNED TO DRIVE AN AIRPLANE. MS TEX ENVIOUSLY WATCHES PIPER CUB RIDE BY OVERHEAD. "NOW FLYING, THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN". 05:15:02 - MS PIPER CUB TAXIING ON RUNWAY OF SMALL AIRFIELD. TEX WORKED AROUND THE AIRPORT WITH HIS OLDER FRIEND DARRYL, "WHO OWNED THE P;ACE". , "I'LL LEARN BY WATCHING". MS DARYL WORKING ON ENGINE OF SMALL PLANE, PAM TO CONVERTIBLE DRIVING UP WITH DARRYLS PRETTY DAUGHTER BRINGING HIM HIS LUNCH. TEX DIDN'T ,MIND THIS. TEX WATCHES AS ARMY PLANE LANDS AT SMALL AIRPORT. TEX SPOKE TO THE AIRMEN AND WAS SURPRISED TO FIND THAT HE TOO COULD QUALIFY FOR FLYING IN THE ARMY. TEX READS SOME ARMY RECRUITMENT BROCHURES, DECIDES TO YAKE APTITUDE TEST, JOIN THE ARMY. 05:16:50 - VARIOUS SHOTS TEX GOING THROUGH BASIC TRAINING IN. CU TEX'S FEET AS HE RESTS DURING HAKE WITH SQUAD. 05:17:05 - CU TEX'S FEET DANCING WITH GIRL IN HIGH HEELS, AS HE DANCES WITH HID FRIEND DARRYL'S DAUGHTER WHILE IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES. 05:17:20 - VARIOUS SHOTS TEX IN CLASSROOMS AT ARMY AVIATION SCHOOL. TEX PUT IN FOR HELICOPTER MAINTENANCE TRAINING. VARIOUS SHOTS TEX AND ARMY BUDDIES WORKING ON TURBINE ENGINES OF HELICOPTER. CU TEX IN HELICOPTER ON WAY TO DELIVER COMPUTER SPECIALIST (BILL EVANS) TO MISSILE SITE. HELICOPTER LANDS, COMPUTER SPECIALIST RUNS TO MISSILE SITE WITH SATCHEL OF TOOLS. CONNOR SHOWS HIM THE PROBLEM AREA ON CONTROL PANEL. 05:19:10 - CU CAMERA FOCUSES ON COMPUTER SPECIALIST BILL EVANS AS HE WORKS ON PROBLEM. VOICE OVER, "LET'S SEE HOW HE (BILL EVANS) GOT HERE". 05:19:17 - VARIOUS SHOTS YOUNG BILL EVANS WORKING ON SMALL RADIOS AND ELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT. "EVEN BEFORE I KNEW WHAT THE WORD MENT, I WAS INTERESTED IN ELECTRONICS, FOOLING AROUND WITH RADIOS AND STEREOS". 05:19:36 - MS BILL EVANS SPEAKING WITH GUIDANCE COUNSELOR AT SCHOOL. MS BILL EVANS SPEAKS ABOUT IT TO MOM AT KITCHEN TABLE. "EVEN IF I COULD WIN A SCHOLARSHIP, YOU SEE MY DAD DIED A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, AND I GOT A COUOLE[ OF KID SISTERS, SEEN IN B/G DOING CHORES. "SO I BECAME THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY". COLLEGE WAS OUT OF THE QUESTION. 05:20:15 - EVANS MEETS AGAIN WITH GUIDANCE COUNSELOR WHO ADVISES HE CONTINUES HIS STUDIES IN THE ARMY, AFTER HE GOT HIS HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA. HE DECIDES HE CAN PICK UP HIS COLLEGE EDUCATION WHEN HIS SISTERS ARE OLDER OR HE CAN BE IN BETTER SHAPE FOR A JOB OUTSIDE AFTER BEING SPECIALIST IN ARMY. 05:20:17 - BILL EVANS IN DREADED BASIC TRAINING. MLS SQUAD LINED UP AT CHINNING BAR AS MEN (GIS) DO CHINS 2 AT A TIME. VARIOUS SHOTS BILL EVANS IN CLASS ROOMS WITH OTHERS, (MEN AND WOMEN, BLACK AND WHITE). GROUPS MEN WORKING ON ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, CONTROL PANELS, IN WORK SHOPS. SOLDERING WIRES IN CONTROL PANELS. ZOOM IN BILL EVANS IN CLASSROOM WITH OTHERS. 05:22:30 - MS BACK AT MISSILE SITE, BILLS COMPLETES HIS OPERATION ON CONTROL PANEL, GRABS HIS EQUIPMENT, RUNS TO WAITING HELICOPTER TO BATTALION HEADQUARTERS WHERE HE WILL BE CALLED ON AGAIN ID NEEDED. MLS HELICOPTER TAKES OFF. 05:23:04 - WITH DEADLINE FOR FIRING ONLY MINUTES AWAY, MEN PREPARE MISSILE, RAISE IT TO FIRING POSITION. ALL CLEAR AREA AS ALARM SOUNDS. MEN MAN THEIR ELECTRONIC FIRING EQUIPMENT ON GROUND, SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM MISSILE. 05:24:50 - LS "PERSHING" BALLISTIC MISSILE FIRING AND IN FLIGHT. 05:25:51 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: IG-26