- Title: V-2380
- Summary: FLYING CADETS: FILM DOCUMENTING AIR CORPS PILOT TRAINING IN 1928 AT BROOKS FIELD, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
- Description:00:11:12 - IRIS OPEN COMPANY OF AIR CORPS CADETS STANDING AT ATTENTION WITH RIFLES FACING DRILL SERGEANT IN FRONT OF BARRACKS. DRILL SERGEANT MAKES ABOUT FACE & DISMISSES COMPANY 00:12:05 - CU CRUDE SIGN PAINTED ON BACK OF VINTAGE MODEL-T FORD: "BROOKS FIELD OR BUST". 00:12:10 - CU STEAM SHOOTING FROM RADIATOR CAP OF OVERHEATED ENGINE. 00:12:15 - SIGN ON RADIATOR: "WATER WORKS". SIGN ON HOOD WITH ARROW POINTING TO RADIATOR CAP: "KEEP CORKED". BROKEN-DOWN CAR 00:12:28 - YOUNG MAN SEATED ON RUNNING BOARD OF DISABLED CAR AT SIDE OF RURAL DIRT ROAD USES HAT TO FAN HIMSELF AS HE LOOKS FRUSTRATED AT HIS CAR. SIGN ON CAR DOOR BEHIND HIM: "PRAY AS YOU ENTER". 00:12:38 - MAN JUMPS UP AS HE SPOTS APPROACHING AUTO. RAISES ARM TO STOP APPROACHING CAR. 00:12:44 - AFFLUENT YOUNG MAN DRIVING FANCY SPORT ROADSTER STOPS BY MAN. OFFERS MAN RIDE. 00:12:54 - MAN GETS HIS LUGGAGE OUT OF DISABLED JALOPY & PLACES IT IN BACK SEAT OF ROADSTER. CLIMBS IN FRONT PASSENGER SEAT ALONGSIDE DRIVER. 00:13:06 - TWO MEN BEGIN CONVERSATION. POV LOOKING THROUGH FRONT WINDSHIELD OF CAR. PASSENGER STARTS EATING SANDWICH 00:13:31 - TWO MEN IN FRONT SEAT TALK 00:13:44 - RICH DRIVER TAKES OUT BUSINESS CARD FROM JACKET & HANDS IT TO PASSENGER. 00:13:49 - PASSENGER MUNCHES ON SANDWICH AS HE READS CARD. 00:14:32 - SIGN ON ROAD: "BROOKS FIELD U.S. GOVERNMENT RESERVATION, SPEED LIMIT 20 MILES PER HOUR". 00:14:37 - ROADSTER RIDING THROUGH ENTRANCE PORTALS. 00:14:39 - CROWD OF YOUNG MEN CARRYING LUGGAGE. SOCIETY BOY CARRIES GOLF CLUBS WITH LUGGAGE. 00:14:44 - NEW RECRUITS GET OUT OF VARIETY OF VINTAGE VEHICLES & WALK UP PATH TO BARRACKS. 00:14:54 - CADETS SUDDENLY THROWN BACK BY BURLY SERGEANT WHO LINES THEM UP ON WALK. 00:15:09 - SERGEANT FACES RICH BOY THEN WAVES HIM OFF. 00:15:24 - ALL QUIETLY ENTER BARRACKS. 00:15:44 - LONG LINE CADETS IN COVERALLS & ARMY CAPS LINE UP OUTSIDE TWO-STORY BUILDING WITH SPANISH TYPE ROOF FOR CLASSES. 00:15:58 - RECRUIT SEATED ON SWIVEL CHAIR IS SPUN AROUND ON IT AS FOUR TRAINERS WATCH & CHECK HIS RESPONSE. 00:16:08 - RECRUIT STRIPS TO WAIST AS RECRUITER CHECKS HIS VISION & HEARING OUTDOORS. EYE CHART ON WALL IN BKGD. 00:16:19 - CADET SITS IN CHAIR WITH TWO STRINGS WHICH HE USES TO LINE UP TWO STICKS ON RACK IN FRONT OF HIM. 00:16:42 - TRAINER SITS IN CHAIR NEXT TO RECRUIT WHO SITS IN OPEN COCKPIT-LIKE BUCKET ATTACHED TO RACK WHICH ALLOW TRAINERS TO SPIN THE RECRUIT AROUND IN ALL DIRECTIONS 00:16:54 - CU ARMY SERGEANT PLACES WHISTLE IN MOUTH & BLOWS HARD 00:16:59 - RECRUITS EXIT BARRACKS FOR RIFLE DRILL. 00:17:09 - SERGEANT SHOWS PROPER WAY TO RAISE RIFLE FROM SIDE TO FORWARD POSITION. 00:17:14 - RIFLE SLIPS OUT OF RECRUIT'S HANDS & FLIES UP & ON GROUND. 00:17:19 - CU SERGEANT. FLAILS HIS ARMS ANGRILY. 00:17:24 - VARIOUS VIEWS SQUAD. RECRUITS JOGGING, DOING CALISTHENICS ON FIELD 00:17:32 - RECRUITS EXIT SCHOOL BUILDING WITH ARMS FULL OF BOOKS. ONE DROPS BOOKS. 00:17:47 - CU TITLE OF BOOK AS HE PILES THEM ON FLOOR. 00:17:57 - MORE OF BOOKS BEING PILED AS HE PICKS THEM UP. 00:18:19 - RECRUITS IN FRONT OF HANGAR WATCH TRAINER PACK UNRAVELLED PARACHUTE WHICH OPENS AS WIND CATCHES IT. 00:18:24 - CU HAND OF INSTRUCTOR OPENS FOLDED PARACHUTE 00:18:30 - VARIOUS VIEWS VINTAGE BI-WING PLANES BEING ROLLED OUT TO RUNWAYS FOLLOWED BY RECRUITS BEING MARCHED OUT TO FIELD. 00:18:52 - VETERAN AIRMEN WITH THEIR FLIGHT COSTUMES SIT AROUND ON FIELD AWAITING THE RECRUITS. 00:19:02 - VETERAN PILOT LIEUTENANT WITH HELMET & GOGGLES SALUTE EACH OTHER & STAND AT ATTENTION. 00:19:12 - VETERAN PILOTS SITS ON GROUND & WATCHES. 00:19:29 - TWO LARGE GROUPS OF BI-PLANES TAKING OFF AT SAME TIME. FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER GROUP. 00:20:09 - PILOT IN FRONT COCKPIT TALKS OVER PA SYSTEM TO STUDENT IN REAR COCKPIT WHILE IN FLIGHT (OPEN COCKPITS) 00:20:19 - PILOT SIGNALS FOR STUDENT TO RAKE OVER. 00:20:24 - AERIAL VIEW MOVING SHADOW OF PLANE SWAYING ROAD BELOW AS RECRUIT HAS TROUBLE KEEPING PLANE STEADY. 00:20:45 - GROUPS OF BI-PLANES COMING IN, SHAKY LANDINGS. 00:20:54 - SQUAD OF STUDENTS MARCH TO BARRACKS AS THEY ARE DISMISSED. 00:20:59 - STUDENT RUNNING WILDLY ON FIELD JUMPING AROUND CRAZY. 00:21:09 - STUDENTS TACKLE HIM & HE YELLS, "I SOLOED!". 00:22:39 - BI-PLANE COMING IN FOR LANDING. 00:22:44 - PILOT IN FRONT TURNS TO STUDENT IN REAR & GESTURES HIM TO GET OUT OF PLANE. 00:22:49 - STUDENT WEARING PARACHUTE CLIMBS OUT OF REAR COCKPIT TO GROUND 00:22:54 - PLANE TAKES OFF LEAVING STUDENT STANDING IN FIELD. 00:23:29 - STUDENTS WALK REJECTED ON COUNTRY DIRT ROAD TO AIRFIELD. ALMOST HIT BY CAR SPEEDING BY. 00:23:39 - CU YOUNG DEJECTED STUDENT LIES ON STOMACH IN GRASS LEANING ON FOLDED ARMS SADLY CONTEMPLATING HIS FUTURE. 00:24:00 - BI-PLANE LANDING IN FIELD. PILOT GETS OUT & WALKS OVER TO STUDENT LYING IN GRASS. 00:24:09 - PILOTS ASKS STUDENT FOR CIGARETTE. CU VETERAN FLYER LIGHTS CIGARETTE 00:24:19 - STUDENT GETS OFF GROUND & TALKS TO PILOT. GIVES STUDENT ADVICE ABOUT FLYING. 00:26:03 - VETERAN FLYER PUFFS ON CIGARETTE . 00:26:16 - STAFF CAR APPROACHES. OFFICER GETS OUT & SALUTES GENERAL 00:26:24 - OFFICER & GENERAL WALK TO CAR AS STUDENT STANDS RIGIDLY AT ATTENTION. 00:26:29 - CU FEELING FOOLISH STUDENTS SNAPS HIS FINGERS & THINKS HARD 00:26:35 - INSTRUCTOR GETTING OUT OF COCKPIT WITH STUDENT STAYING IN REAR. GESTURES TO STUDENT TO TAKE PLANE UP BY HIMSELF (SOLO). 00:26:40 - STUDENT LOWERS HIS GOGGLES & TAKES OFF 00:26:54 - BI-PLANE COMING IN FOR LANDING. 00:27:09 - CU VIEW OF LANDING AS SEEN BY STUDENT. 00:27:19 - PLANE LANDING, TAXIS ON FIELD 00:27:29 - INSTRUCTOR APPROACHES PLANE. PATS SMILING STUDENT ON BACK. PILOT CLIMBS INTO PLANE. 00:28:00 - VARIOUS SCENES BI-PLANE IN SKY DOIN VARIETY OF ROLLS, LOOPS, DIVES & OTHER AEROBATICS. 00:28:39 - CU BACK OF PILOT & VIEW OF GROUND DURING AEROBATICS. 00:29:59 - AERIAL VIEW BI-PLANE SWEEPING LOW TO GROUND & LANDING. 00:30:04 - BI-PLANES TAKING OFF IN FORMATION. 00:30:30 - PILOT MANUALLY TURNS PROP AS GROUND CREWMAN IN PLANE STARTS ENGINE. 00:30:35 - PILOT CLIMBS INTO PLANE AT NIGHT 00:30:40 - BI-PLANES LINED UP FOR NIGHT TAKE OFF & FLIGHT TAKING OFF ONE AT A TIME. SOLDIERS MANNING HUGE FLOOD LIGHTS TO LIGHT UP AREA & SKY. 00:31:33 - PILOTS WITH PARACHUTES DANGLING FROM BEHIND CLIMB INTO LARGER BI-PLANES AS OTHERS WATCH. 00:32:27 - TWO FLYERS HAVE CONVERSATION TRYING TO DECIDE WHICH BRANCH OF SERVICE THEY WISH TO FLY IN. 00:32:39 - ONE DRAWS DESIGN IN DIRT AS OTHER ONE WATCHES. WRITES WORD "PURSUIT" ON PIECE OF PAPER & HANDS IT TO OTHER. 00:32:54 - PILOT IN PLANE LOOKING DOWN AT SQUADRON OF ENEMY BI-PLANES FLYING BELOW. SIGNALS TO SQUADRON TO PEEL OFF & ATTACK. WAR GAMES 00:33:09 - SQUADRON BI-PLANES PEEL OFF FOR ATTACK. 00:34:02 - VARIOUS SHOTS DOG FIGHT BETWEEN RIVAL SQUADRONS. 00:34:19 - HAND HOLDS PIECE OF PAPER WITH WORD "OBSERVATION" 00:34:29 - "ENEMY" CONVOY ON ROAD AS SEEN BY OBSERVATION PLANE. 00:34:39 - TWO MEN IN PLANE LOOK OVER SIDE AT CONVOY. RADIO POSITION TO ARTILLERY. 00:34:49 - AERIAL VIEW SHELLS FROM ARTILLERY BARRAGE EXPLODING AROUND TARGETS, CONVOY OF ARMY TRUCKS. 00:34:59 - TWO PILOTS IN PLANE LEANING OVER TO WATCH. CHEER THEIR SUCCESSFUL RESULTS. 00:35:09 - CU PILOT'S HAND TAPPING OUT MORSE CODE ON TELEGRAPH IN PLANE. 00:35:33 - CU STUDENT READS WORD "BOMBARDMENT" ON PIECE OF PAPER HE IS HANDED. 00:35:43 - VARIOUS VIEWS BI-PLANE IN FLIGHT POV ANOTHER ALONGSIDE. BOMBARDIER IN PLANE RAISES GOGGLES TO PEER THROUGH BOMB SIGHT INSTRUMENT. 00:36:09 - AERIAL BRIDGE OVER RIVER. 00:36:14 - CU RACK OF BOMBS UNDER WING. HAND PULLS LEVER. BOMBS DROP FROM PLANE TO TARGET BELOW. 00:36:24 - HUGE EXPLOSIONS ON BRIDGE. 00:36:34 - DESTROYED BRIDGE. 00:36:36 - CU "ATTACK" WRITTEN ON PAPER. 00:36:41 - VARIOUS SCENES GROUND CREWS GASSING UP BI-PLANE AS OTHERS LOAD BOMBS ON 00:36:54 - VARIOUS AERIAL VIEWS SQUADRON ATTACK BI-PLANES ATTACKING ARMY UNIT ON GROUND. BOMBS EXPLODING, SMOKE RISING. 00:37:24 - ABOVE VIEW RESULTS OF ATTACK SHOWS DESTROYED VEHICLES, BODIES OF SOLDIERS LYING ABOUT. 00:37:58 - CU HAND HOLDS PAPER WITH WORDS "PURSUIT", "OBSERVATION", "BOMBARDMENT", "ATTACK". 00:38:03 - CADET PLACES EACH WORD IN SQUARE HE DREW IN DIRT. 00:38:13 - CADETS WALKE SEVERAL PASES AWAY & TOSS SMALL ROCK INTO SQUARE TO SEE WHERE IT LANDS. 00:38:23 - BOTH LANDED IN "BOMBARDMENT". THEY SHAKE HANDS. 00:38:58 - TITLE: "GRADUATION DAY". COMMANDING GENERAL WITH TWO OFFICERS SEATED BEHIND HIM & TWO HUGE U.S. FLAGS COVERING WALL BEHIND HIM ADDRESSES CLASS OF GRADUATES. 00:39:45 - CADETS SEATED IN ROWS OF SEATS WITH ARMS FOLDED LISTEN TO GENERAL. ALL APPLAUD AT END OF SPEECH. 00:40:20 - GRADUATING CADETS EXIT AUDITORIUM IN SNAPPY NEW UNIFORMS WITH DIPLOMAS IN HAND. PAT EACH OTHER ON BACKS. 00:40:39 - LONG LINE OF BI-PLANES AS FAR AS EYE CAN SEE WITH PILOTS STANDING AT ATTENTION IN FRONT 00:40:59 - VARIOUS VIEWS BI-PLANES IN FLIGHT, DOING STUNTS. 00:41:17 - TWO MEN LOOKING DEJECTEDLY SHAKE HANDS 00:41:40 - LARGE GROUP OF REGULAR PILOTS SITTING AROUND OUTSIDE BARRACKS WATCH AS NEW RECRUITS MARCH TOWARDS THEM. 00:41:50 - TWO PILOTS LOOK THEM OVER & SMILE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1928
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: V-2380