- Title: VM-1097B
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:01:01:00 - "AERIAL MOBILITY" EXPLORES NEW TACTICAL USES OF HELICOPTERS WHICH HAVE BEEN ARMED WITH ROCKETS AND MACHINE GUNS. 01:01:03 - NARRATOR QUEEN TALKS OF ARMY AVIATION AND IT'S ROLE IN THE 3 ESSENTIAL FACTORS FOR VICTORY IN WAR. MOBILITY, FIRE POWER AND COMMUNICATION 01:02:20 - MONTAGE- WWI AND WWII BATTLE SCENES DEMONSTRATING FIRE POWER INCLUDING A-BOMB BLAST AND MISSILES. 01:05:36 - LS-HOME OF ARMY AVIATION AT FORT BRUCKER, ALABAMA 01:06:02 - MS- A GRADUATING CLASS OF ARMY PILOTS, BLACK AND WHITE SIT IN SEATS AWAITING THEIR DIPLOMAS. THEIR FAMILIES WATCH AS THEY RECEIVE THEM 01:08:34 - MONTAGE- GIS WALK ACROSS RAGING STREAM CARRYING THEIR EQUIPMENT ON THEIR SHOULDERS. LS- GIS STRUGGLING UP A STEEP ROCKY HILL. MS- A PATROL WALK ALONG A MUDDY ROAD. ALL AT MERCY OF TERRAIN 01:09:15 - MONTAGE- TRUCKS STRAIN THROUGH DEEP LIQUIDY MUD MAKING SLOW HEADWAY. MONTAGE- THE HELICOPTER OF ARMY AVIATION SPEEDS UP THE MOBILITY OF TROOPS 01:12:19 - AERIAL- SQUADRON OF HELICOPTERS FLIES OVER HEAVY FOREST, AS SEEN FROM CAMERMAN FLYING ABOVE THEM. 01:15:03 - LS- A HELICOPTER LIFTS AN L-19 LIGHTPLANE WITH CABLES AND TRANSPORTS IT TO ANOTHER SITE. A JEEP AND AN ARTILLERY PIECE IS ALSO AIRLIFTED. 01:16:01 - MONTAGE- ARMY L-19 PLANES TAKING OFF AND LANDING DURING TRAINING MISSIONS (LOGGED PREVIOUSLY) 01:17:10 - MS- ARMY PILOTS IN TRAINING SIT IN CLASSROOM WEARING EARPHONES AND WATCHING AN ANIMATED MINITURE BATTLEFIELD AND MAKING NOTES. 01:21:00 - MS- GROUND CREWMAN ARMS A HELICOPTER MACHINE GUN 01:22:00 - MONTAGE- ENACTMENT OF AN ARMY L-19 LIGHTPLANE'S ROLE IN A SIMULATED BATTLE. 01:23:48 - MS- SEVERAL HELICOPTERS HOVER NEAR THE GROUND AND OPEN FIRE WITH ROCKETS AND MACHINE GUNS.THEY DUCK DOWN, RISE, FIRE AND DUCK DOWN AGAIN. 01:24:47 - LS- A LARGE AREA IS OBLITERATED BY THE HELICOPTER GUNFIRE. LS- OTHER HELICOPTERS LAND AND DISCHARGE TROOPS WHO RUN ACROSS THE FIELD.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1917
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1910s
- File Name: VM-1097B