- Title: VM-1043B
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:31:20 - "AIRBORNE TO BATTLE" THE HISTORY & DEVELOPMENT OF THE AIRBORNE ARMY 00:31:40 - NARRATOR TELLS ABOUT AVIATION AND THE AIRBORNE TROOPS STARTING FROM TURN OF THE CENTURY TO PRESENT. 00:32:27 - MS- PARATROOPS SIT IN THE PLANE WITH THEIR CHUTE PACKS IN THEIR LAPS. 00:32:40 - LS- BALLOON WITH MAN IN IT WAS A SPECTACLE TO BEHOLD AT TURN OF CENTURY (EARLY FILM). 00:32:45 - LS- EARLY FLIGHT IN 1903. MEN HAND TURN PROP TO GET ENGINE STARTED. 00:33:10 - LS- ARMY SOLDIERS ROLL OUT AN EARLY MODEL FOR TEST FLIGHT. AERIAL- VIEW OF GROUND AS SEEN FROM ARMY BI-PLANE. PHOTOGRAPHER LEANS OVER COCKPIT TO TAKE PICTURES. 00:33:21 - MS- DAREDEVIL STANDS ON WING WITH PARACHUTE ON AND THEN JUMPS TO THRILL A SUNDAY CROWD. PARACHUTIST LANDS IN WATER. 00:34:04 - MONTAGE- PARATROOP TRAINING HAS MEN SLIDING DOWN CABLES AND LANDING WITH A SOMMERSAULT. LS- TROOPS JUMPING OUT PLANES, SLOWLY DESCENDING IN CHUTES 00:34:47 - LS- GERMAN PLANES DISCHARGE THEIR CARGO OF PARATROOPS OVER THE ISLE OF CRETE DURING WWII. THEY QUICKLY GATHER THEIR CHUTES WHEN THEY LAND. 00:35:56 - AERIAL- SICILIAN CHILDREN LOOKING UP AT CAMERA AND APPLAUDING, BAND PLAYS AND ALSO LOOKS UP 00:36:10 - MONTAGE- HITLER VISITING COASTAL DEFENSES. 00:37:04 - LS- PARATROOPS DESCENDING OVER FRANCE ON D-DAY 00:38:00 - LS- GLIDERS LINE A FIELD IN ENGLAND. MONTAGE- LOGOS AND DRAWINGS ON GLIDERS. MS- A JEEP BEING DRIVEN INTO THE GLIDER FOLLOWED BY SOLDIERS FOR THE INVASION OF HOLLAND IN WWII. 00:39:32 - MS- GLIDERS LANDING IN A DUTCH FIELD FOLLOWED BY A SKY FILLED WITH PARATROOPS. 00:40:49 - MS- A GI LOOKS AT A BODY OF A GERMAN SOLDIER NEXT TO A SHATTERED CANNON THEN, WALKS AWAY. 00:41:14 - MS- GENERALS MCAULIFFE AND GENERAL TAYLOR WALK BY A SIGN 'BASTOGNE' WHICH THEY SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED DURING THE BATTLE OF THE 'BULGE'. 00:41:49 - LS- GIS SITTING ON GROUND ARE SHOWN HOW TO USE A PARACHUTE BY INSTRUCTOR USING ANOTHER GI AS MODEL MS- HE WALKS AND PULLS THE CHUTE OUT OF ITS HARNESS UNTIL IT IS FULLY EXTENDED. 00:42:36 - LS- TRAINEES HOOK UP THEIR CHUTES ON WIRE AND GO THROUGH THE PROCEDURES OF JUMPING FROM PLANE, INSTEAD THEY JUMP OFF A SHORT PLATFORM TO GROUND. 00:43:10 - LS- THE TRAINEES JUMP FROM A HIGH PLATFORM BUT THE FALL IS BROKEN SHORT OF THE GROUND 00:44:11 - MONTAGE- SCENES OF PARATROOPS JUMPING IN THE PACIFIC THEATER AGAINST THE JAPANESE. 00:53:15 - MS- AN OFFICER INSPECTS THE INSIDE OF A TRANSPORT PLANE TO SEE TO THE SAFETY OF PARATROOPS BEFORE THEY JUMP. 00:56:53 - MS- THE STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURE OF THE PARATROOP AS HE JUMPS FROM PLANE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1890
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1890s
- File Name: VM-1043B