- Title: PA-12
- Summary: FREEDOM HIGHWAY: RE-ENACTMENTS OF FAMOUS EVENTS IN U. S. HISTORY. STARRING MARSHALL THOMPSON, ANGIE DICKENSON, CHARLES MAXWELL, MORRIS ANKRUM, TOMMY KIRK, TEX RITTER (SINGS "FREEDOM ROAD" AND "THE ALAMO")
- Description:01:22:31 - NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN ON HORSE ON SIDE OF CLIFF LOOKING DOWN 01:22:35 - WAGON TRAIN OF PIONEERS TRAVELING ACROSS PRAIRIE 01:22:42 - CAVALRY MEN SCOUTS ON HORSEBACK LOOKING AROUND 01:23:11 - LONG LINE OF NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS ON HORSEBACK CHARGING ACROSS PRAIRIE TOWARDS WAGON TRAIN. 01:23:24 - NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS ATTACK WAGON TRAIN. COVERED WAGONS ATTACKED. DRIVERS SHOOTING RIFLES 01:23:47 - CAVALRY OFFICER ON HORSEBACK SHOT. 01:24:55 - CU WHEEL OF BUS ROLLING. LS GREYHOUND BUS WITH UPPER DECK, ON CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY, ALONG PACIFIC, TOWARDS CAMERA. 01:25:09 - PEOPLE IN BUS SEATED BACK ENJOYING SCENERY INCLUDE YOUNG BOY SCOUT JIMMY ROLANDS, JUMPS AROUND IN HIS SEAT TO LOOK THROUGH BIG PICTURE WINDOWS ON ALL SIDES OF BUS. SPEAKS TO MIDDLE AGED COUPLE IN SEAT BEHIND HIM, WHO TELL HIM HISTORY OF THE AREA. 01:26:15 - LS GOOD SHOT GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. MS BUS GOING OVER BRIDGE TOWARDS CAMERA.. MS VIEW OF BRIDGE UPRIGHTS AS SEEN THROUGH BUS WINDOW AS IT RIDES UNDER IT. 01:27:03 - MLS ABOVE VIEW FAMED SAN FRANCISCO TROLLEY AT TOP OF HILLY STREET. CU STRET SIGNS "MARKET"AND SUTTER" STREETS. MAN TELLS BOY HISTORY OF SUTTER'S MILL. 01:27:33 - RE-ENACTMENT - 1848 JOHN SUTTER DISCOVERING GOLD. CU PAN SUTTER AND OTHERS PANNING FOR GOLD. 01:27:48 - RE-ENACTMENT OF GOLD RUSH - PAN COWBOYS ON HORSEBACK ACCOMPANY LONG LINES OF COVERED WAGONS. ONE WITH SIGN, "CALIFORNIA OR BUST", DRIVE CATTLE, THROUGH RUGGED HILL COUNTRY OF THE WEST. SOME DIDN'T MAKE IT. LS COVERED WAGON ON FIRE RIDES INTO LAKE, PURSUED BY LARGE GROUP OF INDIANS, BACKS TO CAMERA, WIELDING TOMAHAWKS, SPEARS. 01:28:20 - LS ABOVE VIEW MEN LINE SACRAMENTO RIVER PANNING FOR GOLD. CU BOY SCOUT IN BUS LEANS BACK SAYS, "GEE, I CAN ALMOST SEE IT". MCU STRANGER (MARSHALL THOMPSON) SUDDENLY APPEARS SEATED NEXT TO BOY SCOUT, TALKS OF HISTORY AND ARGUES PATRIOTISM WITH MAN ACROSS AISLE. 01:29:19 - PASSENGERS IN BUS, FACING CAMERA, GET UP AS VOICE OVER DRIVER ANNOUNCES PIT STOP AT SAN FRANCISCO TERMINAL. MS PASSENGERS INCLUDING BOY SCOUT EXIT BUS, WHEN MYSTERIOUS STRANGER EXITS, BUS DRIVER LOOKS PERPLEXED, SAYS TO HIMSELF, "WHERE DID I PICK HIM UP?" 01:29:43 - CU LOUD SPEAKERS ON WALL MAKING ANNOUNCEMENTS OF BUS LEAVING. MCU BUS DRIVER PUNCHES TICKETS AS PASSENGERS CLIMB INTO BUS. TELLS OF HIS SAFETY RECORD TO BOY SCOUT (PITCH FOR GREYHOUND) 01:30:17 - MCU BOY SCOUT RECOGNIZES, TALKS TO PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYER (BILL) ABOUT TO CLIMB INTO BUS.. 01:30:25 - MS MARY (ANGIE DICKERSON) HAS TICKET PUNCHED BEFORE CLIMBING INTO BUS. hollywood, movies, 01:30:55 - MS GREYHOUND BUS TRAVELLING L TO R TOWARDS CAMERA ON DESERT ROAD. FOOTBALL PLAYER SITTING IN SEAT NEXT TO DICKERSON, ENJOY FRIENDLY CHAT. HE MAKES PITCH FOR DATE. CU SHE SLIPS ON HER ENGAGEMENT RING, HE BACKS OFF WHEN HE SEES IT. 01:31:14 - CU STRANGER SITS NEXT TO DISGRUNTLED MAN WHO ARGUED WITH HIM ABOUT PATRIOTISM. 01:32:12 - BUS STOPS AT CROSS-ROADS "STOP" SIGN AND SIGN "ROUTE OF THE PONY EXPRESS".SMALL STATUETTE OF HORSE AND RIDER ON SIGN. 01:32:18 - MS BOY SCOUT READS STORY OF PONY EXPRESS TO BILL WHO SITS NEXT TO HIM. 01:32:37 - RE-ENACTMENT PONY EXPRESS - CU WHEEL OF STATION WAGON. TURNING AS IT SPEED ON TROAD, LS STATION WAGON ON DESERT ROAD. TOWARDS CAMERA AND R TO L. 01:32:48 - MS COWBOY ON HORSE SPEEDING THROUGH DESERT COUNTRY (PONY EXPRESS), PASSES STATION WAGON AT HIGH SPEED. MS MAN STICKS HEAD OUT STATION WAGON TO TAKE LOOK. MCU COWBOY ON HORSE GALLOPING AT HIGH SPEED 01:32:59 - PONY EXPRESSMAN JUMPS OFF HIS HORSE AT RELAY STATION AND WITHOUT MISSING A STEP, RUNS AND CLIMBS ONTO MOVING FRESH HORSE HELD BY ANOTHER COWBOY, CONTINUES HIS HIGH SPEED TRIP. 01:33:05 - PONY EXPRESS ENCOUNTERS HOSTILE INDIANS, EXCHANGES SHOTS WITH THEM AS HE CONTINUES ON HIS WAY. HE STOPS BRIEFLY AT BURNED OUT HOMESTEAD EXCHANGES HORSES AT ANOTHER RELAY STATION WITHOUT EVER STOPPING. 01:33:39 - LS GREYHOUND BUS RIDING OVER HIGHWAY BRIDGE OVER RIVER IN DESERT MOUNTAIN COUNTRY. 01:34:04 - ANGRY MAN (MR. SHROEDER) WHO LOST SON IN WAR ARGUES WITH FOOTBALL PLAYER (BILL) WHO, NOT KNOWING ABOUT MAN'S SON, THINKS HIS REMARKS ARE UNPATRIOTIC. MYSTERIOUS STRANGER CALMS ALL DOWN WHEN HE EXPLAINS IT TO BILL, SAYS BOY WAS AWARDED CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR. BILL APOLOGIZES TO SHROEDER, 01:34:44 - MLS BUS DRIVES AT NIGHT, BENEATH LIT UP NEON SIGNS "RENO" "THE BIGGEST LITTLE CITY IN THE WORLD".MIGHT CLUB NEON SIGNS IN B/G MS BILL SEATED, WITH WOMAN (DICKERSON), TRIES TO CONVINCE HER SHE IS TO MARRY THE WRONG MAN, BRIGHT. LIT UP STRIP SEEN THROUGH BUS WINDOW IN B/G. PAN HUGE "NEVADA CLUB" SIGN, PEOPLE WALKING ABOUT UNDER IT, POV MOVING BUS. 01:35:44 - MS COWBOY SINGER TEX RITTER, WITH GUITAR IN HAND SEATED ON BUS WITH BOY SCOUT, BOY RECOGNIZES HIM, ASKS TEX TO SING A SONG. RITTER PLAYS GUITAR AND SINGS "LEGEND OF THE ALAMO", PAN REMAINS OLD ALAMO RUINS AS VOICE OVER RITTER SINGS. hollywood, movies. country music, western music. 01:37:23 - CU RUINS. TILT UP TO FLAG FLYING ABOVE IT, 01:37:30 - RE-ENACTMENT SCENES OF ALAMO BATTLE, TEX RITTER SINGING AS OTHERS IN BUS WATCH. 01:38:08 - RE-ENACTMENT OF BATTLE SHOWS PATRIOTS INSIDE FIGHTING ALONG WALLS. DAVEY CROCKET FIRING LONG RIFLE AT ENEMY, IS SHOT AND KILLED. CROCKET LOOKS LIKE STRANGER ON BUS. MS LONE STAR FLAG OVER ALAMO. 01:38:36 - PEOPLE IN BUS APPLAUD RITTER. 01:38:42 - SHROEDER SPEAKING TO STRANGER ASKS "WHAT GOOD DID IT DO FOR THOSE MEN TO FIGHT ON....."?" 01:39:10 - MORE SCENES MARY WITH BILL SEATED TOGETHER ON BUS. hollywood, movies, theater. 01:39:25 - CU TEX RITTER SPEAKING TO BOY SCOUT. FACING CAMERA. 01:39:33 - GOOD VIEW GREYHOUND BUS SPEEDING ON ROAD, R TO L 01:40:06 - MLS VIEW OF LAKE MICHIGAN WITH CITY OF CHICAGO IN B/G VOICE OVER TEX RITTER TELLING STORY OF LAKE MICHIGAN AND GREAT CHICAGO FIRE TO BOY SCOUT 01:40:16 - RE-ENACTMENT - CHICAGO FIRE OF 1871 - LS CROWDS ESCAPING HUGE FIRE FILL BANKS OF LAKE MICHIGAN, SOME TAKE TO BOATS OTHERS WADE IN RIVER. FLAMING BUILDINGS IN B/G. ABOVE VIEW PEOPLE STREAMING FROM BETWEEN BURNING BUILDINGS TO WATERS EDGE, WHERE THOUSANDS WERE SAVED. MS VARIOUS VIEWS CROWDS JAM RIVERS EDGE INCLUDING HORSES AND WAGONS. VOICE OVER (RITTER) NARRATES. 01:40:33 - LS PAN REBUILT CHICAGO AS SEEN FROM BUS WINDOW, CIRCA 1956. 01:41:10 - MS TEX RITTER EXITS BUS SHAKES GOODBYE WITH STRANGER HE SEEMS TO RECOGNIZE FROM HIS ARMY DAYS. 01:41:14 - BUS DRIVER AT WHEEL, DRIVING ON ROAD LINED WITH TREES, AS SEEN THROUGH LARGE FRONT WINDOW. 01:42:02 - AERIAL VIEW BUS RIDING ON MILES LONG BRIDGE STRETCHING OVER THE OCEAN, CONNECTING THE FLORIDA KEYS. AERIAL VIEW BUS ON BRIDGE APPROACHING KEY WEST. VOICE OVER BILL SPEAKING TO BOY SCOUT TELLS HISTORY OF FLORIDA KEYS, WHICH WERE PART OF OLD SPANISH MAIN. 01:42:28 - RE-ENACTMENT SPANISH SHIPS BATTLING PIRATE SHIPS. MLS PIRATE SHIP HEADS TOWARDS SPANISH MERCHANT SHIP COMING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION. CU CANNONS MUZZLE EXITING TRAP DOORS ON SIDE OF SHIP. CU SHIP CANNONS FIRING. LS TWO MEDIEVAL SAIL WARSHIPS SIDE BY SIDE FIRING CANNONS. CU SAME. 01:42:41 - MONTAGE VARIOUS SCENES HAND TO HAND COMBAT ON DECK, PIRATES SWINGING ON ROPES, PIRATE CHOPS ROPE HOLDING SAIL, SAIL COMES TUMBLING DOWN, MEN ON IT FALLING INTO SEA. TALKING ABOUT TREASURE, BILL, TO BOY, "THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO RECOGNIZE THE TREASURE WHEN YOU FIND ONE" TURNING TO MARY AS HE SAYS IT. 01:43:45 - STRANGER MAKES STATEMENT TO MARY TO HELP HER MAKE UP HER MIND ABOUT BILL. BUS PULLS INTO LOT OF RESTAURANT WITH SIGN "POST HOUSE. "LAST STOP BEFORE PHILADELPHIA" SAYS MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. BOY SCOUT SITS WITH SHROEDER AND STRANGER AT DINING ROOM TABLES EATING, BILL AND MARY ON TABLE IN B/G. STRANGER SPEAKS OF HAPPENINGS IN 1776, CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.. 01:44:33 - RE-ENACTMENT BOSTON TEA PARTY, CONTINENTAL CONGRESS VARIOUS VIEWS DELEGATES IN STATION WAGON AND ON HORSEBACK TOWARDS CAMERA, ON ROADS HEADING FOR CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. . 01:44:42 - MS MINUTEMEN ON BRITISH MERCHANT SHIP, DRESSED AS INDIANS, WIELDING TORCHES, DUMP CARGO ENGLISH TEA OVERBOARD INTO HARBOR. 01:45:02 - VARIOUS VIEWS DELEGATES GATHERING IN BUILDING, STILL STANDING, IN PHILADELPHIA. (COSTUME OF THAT PERIOD).SEATED DELEGATES LISTEN TO MEMBERS WHOO STAND AND MAKE SPEECHES. 01:45:20 - MESSENGER ON HORSEBACK RUNS INTO BUILDING, SHOUTS NEWS, ALL STAND AND CHEER WILDLY. 01:45:34 - FAMED GROUP GATHER FOR SIGNING OF DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, CU VIEW DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, TILT DOWN TO JOHN HANCOCK SIGNATURE, CU BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (ACTOR) AND ANOTHER SIGN DOCUMENT. 01:46:00 - MAN RINGING HUGE LIBERTY BELL, PULLS ROPE TO RING BELL. IS LIFTED OFF GROUND AT EACH RING AS HE HOLDS ONTO ROPE. comedy, oddity 01:46:09 - LS INDEPENDENCE HALL IN PHILADELPHIA. SKYSCRAPER IN B/G. MCU STRANGER HAS TALK WITH SAD MR. SHROEDER AT DINNER TABLE IN RESTAURANT. SPEAKS OF SHROEDER'S WAR HERO SON 01:47:00 - END, (SEE PART 2) 01:47:08 - PHILADELPHIA, TALL BUILDINGS, FOUNTAIN, AS SEEN ROM BUS WINDOW AS IT DRIVES INTO CITY, MS BILL AND MARY (ANGIE DICKERSON) WHO DEVELOPED RELATIONSHIP ON BUS, HOLD HANDS LIKE LOVERS DO. SCENES OF FOUNTAINS OUTSIDE PICTURE WINDOW IN B/G 01:47:26 - MARY (DICKERSON) IN TELEPHONE BOOTH SPEAKS TO HER FIANCEE (WALDO),, UNABLE TO BREAK NEWS OF HER LOVE FOR BILL. hollywood, movies, theater. 01:47:49 - BILL MEETS MARY AS SHE LEAVES PHONE BOOTH, ASKS HER IF SHE TOLD WALDO OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP, SHE SAYS SHE COULDN'T. BILL IMPULSIVELY GRABS MARY AND KISSES HER HARD ON LIPS. MARY SLAPS HIM, RUNS OFF. 01:48:13 - MS WASHINGTON ARCH IN WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK IN NEW YORK CITY. HIGH RISE APARTMENT HOUSES IN B/G. 01:48:18 - MCU MAN (WALDO) IMPATIENTLY WAITING AT BUS STATION FOR MARY. BUS PULLS IN, MARY IS GREETED BY WALDO. SHE GIVES UNENTHUSIASTIC "HELLO, WALDO". 01:48:48 - MARY TELLS WALDO SHE IS LEAVING HIM AND IS GOING BACK TO PHILADELPHIA, MS SIGN ON DOOR, "PHILADELPHIA EAGLES", PRO FOOTBALL TEAM WHERE BILL IS A PLAYER. 01:49:14 - MS MARY SITS IN EAGLE'S OFFICE RECEPTION ROOM. WAITING FOR BILL TO SHOW UP TO SIGN HIS CONTRACT . RECEPTIONIST SPEAKS TO HER. BILL WALKS INTO OFFICE, IS PLEASANTLY SHOCKED TO SEE MARY THERE, 01 450 00 BILL AND MARRY HUG AND KISS PASSIONATELY. 01:50:11 - CU SIGN "GETTYSBURG", "NAMED FOR JAMES GETTYS, ONE OF FIRST SETTLERS, FOUNDED 1789" LS BUS PULLS IN AMID OLD CANNON AND TOMBSTONES. SHROEDER AND STRANGER EXIT BUS, SHROEDER ASKS STRANGER, "WHO ARE YOU ANYWAY?" "I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOUR NAME". 01:50:50 - RE-ENACTMENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN SEATED AT TABLE IN GETTYSBURG HOME OF JUDGE, FRIEND. LINCOLN ASKS JUDGE TO REQUEST BAND OUTSIDE TO PLAY "DIXIE" )REBEL MARCHING SONG).SAYING "I THINK IT WILL BE A FITTING THING AT THIS TIME, AT THIS PLACE". 01:51:29 - JUDGE OPENS WINDOW, TELLS BAND OUTSIDE TO PLAY "DIXIE". ABOVE VIEW CROWD GETTING UPSET, BUT BAND PLAYS "DIXIE" ANYWAY. CROWD LAUGHS AND ENJOYS IT. CU LINCOLN LEANS BACK IN CHAIR ENJOYS THE MUSIC. 01:52:23 - CU PAN CIVIL WAR CANNON AT GETTYSBURG CEMETERY, LS MONUMENT WITH LINCOLN BUST. TO GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. CU BUST, PAN TO ADDRESS CARVED WRITTEN ON MONUMENT. STRANGER SHOWING MEMORIAL TO MR. SHROEDER SPEAKS OF LINCOLN GIVING THE ADDRESS. 01:52:37 - MCU RE-ENACTMENT - LINCOLN GIVING HIS GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. SPEAKS OF GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD AND CEMETERY, CU MR. SCHROEDER READING ADDRESS ON MONUMENT AS VOICE OVER OF LINCOLN RECITES IT. CU MORE OF LINCOLN RECITING ADDRESS. 01:54:30 - MCU STRANGER TELLS SHROEDER, "I'VE SEEN THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE. THEY'RE WORTHY OF EACH OTHER". CU SHROEDER TURNS TO TELL STRANGER THAT HE NOW UNDERSTANDS, AND THAT HE WANTS TO THANK HIM, BUT STRANGER DISAPPEARS 01:55:00 - LS TILT UP FROM POOL TO WASHINGTON MONUMENT ON OTHER SIDE. LS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL, L;S LINCOLN MEMORIAL, TRAFFIC IN F/G. MLS IWO JIMA MEMORIAL MARINES RAISING FLAG ON MT. SURABACHI. LS CAPITOL DOME BUILDING, TRAFFIC IN F/G. 01:55:35 - MR. SHROEDER AND BOY SCOUT STOP AT TOMB OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER. MLS TOMB AND SOLDIER GUARDING IT MARCHING TOWARDS CAMERA. 01:55:40 - SHROEDER POINTS TO CEMETERY WITH THOUSANDS OF GRAVE STONES OF UNKNOWN SOLDIERS FROM CIVIL WAR AND OTHER WARS. LS STRANGER WALKING AMONG THE GRAVES STONES. BUT SHROEDER AND BOY DON'T SEE HIM.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1956
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: PA-12