- Title: VM-1104B
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:32:07 - "THE CODE OF THE FIGHTING MAN" A STUDY OF THE SOLDIERS CODE OF CONDUCT - AN OUTLINE OF THE U.S. ARMYS SOLDIER'S MORAL OBLIGATION TO HIS COUNTRY. 00:32:12 - MS- GIS IN THEIR FOXHOLES AWAIT ATTACK BY ENEMY WHO HAS THEM SURROUNDED AND CUT OFF (PAN) 00:34:00 - MS- THE COMPANY COMMANDER INFORMS HIS MEN THAT THEY ARE CUT OFF AND THEY WILL STAND AND FIGHT 00:34:30 - MS- A BLACK AND WHITE GI HAVE A SMOKE IN THEIR FOXHOLE AND WAIT FOR THE ATTACK. 00:35:03 - CU- A YOUNG GI BEGINS TO SHOW FEAR WHICH IS NOTICED BY A SEASONED VET, ALSO A POW. HE TRIES TO CHEER UP THE YOUNG GI. 00:36:29 - LS- THE GIS COME UNDER HEAVY FIRE WHICH THEY RETURN. CAPTURED GIS WITH THEIR HANDS ON THEIR HEADS, AS SEEN THROUGH BINOCULARS (REENACTMENT) 00:37:12 - MS- CAPTURED GIS WITH THEIR HANDS ON HEAD WALK DOWN A DIRT ROAD.THE GIS ATTACK THEIR CAPTORS. 00:37:52 - MS- THE GIS AND THE GUARD ROLL DOWN AN EMBANKMENT STRUGGLING WITH A GUARD AS ANOTHER GI PULLS THE BODY OF ANOTHER GUARD OFF THE ROAD (ENACTMENT) 00:38:08 - MS- THE 2 GIS AND THE GUARD LAND IN THE WATER WHERE THEY DROWN HIM. 00:38:23 - LS- AN ENEMY SOLDIER TAKES A BEAD ON THE RUNNING GIS AND HITS ONE IN THE LEG. A RUNNING GI WITH BULLETS HITTING THE GROUND AROUND HIM 00:39:36 - MS- A RAGGED GI POW WITH HEAD BANDAGED STANDS IN A CLEARING, IS INTERROGATED BY AN ENEMY OFFICER. 00:40:10 - MS- THE ENEMY OFFICER CALLS FOR THE NEXT PRISONER AND A BLACK GI IS QUESTIONED WHILE STANDING. HE GIVES HIS NAME, RANK, SERIAL NUMBER, DATE OF BIRTH AND NO MORE. 00:41:29 - MS- A WHITE SERGEANT IS NEXT AND HE REFUSES TO TALK AND GIVES THE SAME ANSWERS AS THE BLACK GI. 00:42:05 - MS- AT THE ENEMY HEADQUARTERS THE SAME PRISONERS ARE QUESTIONED INDIVIDUALLY AND IN DEPTH. 00:42:12 - CU- EYES OF THE INTERROGATING OFFICER. CU- HE MAKES A NOTATION ON A FORM 00:42:35 - CU- PAN FROM FEET TO FACE OF BLACK GI BEING QUESTIONED. REFUSING TO ANSWER, HE QUOTES THE ARTICLES OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION. 00:43:36 - MS- THE COCKY SERGEANT RILEY ALSO QUOTES THE GENEVA CONVENTION BUT HIS ATTITUDE ANGERS THE ENEMY OFFICER. 00:44:14 - CU- FACE OF SERGEANT RILEY AS HE QUOTES GENEVA. CU- EYES AND THEN LIPS OF THE INTERROGATOR WHO THREATENS THE SERGEANT WITH EXECUTION. 00:45:55 - CU- THE OFFICER WRITES "SECURITY CONSCIOUS, RECOMMEND FURTHER INTERROGATION". 00:47:26 - CU- THE BLACK GI SWEATS AS HE AGAIN STICKS BY HIS GUNS UNDER INTERROGATION. 00:47:54 - MS- ONE OF ESCAPING GIS COMES TO A STREAM AND SITS DOWN EXHAUSTED, BUT STILL BEHIND ENEMY LINES 00:49:14 - CU- SERGEANT RILEY IS AGAIN QUESTIONED AND TOLD TO SIT. WHEN HE TRIES TO SIT IN A CHAIR THE OFFICER ANGRILY TELLS HIM TO SIT ON THE FLOOR. 00:50:13 - MS- WHILE THE BLACK OFFICER IS BEING INTERROGATED BY AN OFFICER, ANOTHER SITS BEHIND A TWO WAY MIRROR AND TAPE RECORDS THE CONVERSATION. 00:51:24 - MS- INTERROGATOR TRIES TO TRICK THE BLACK GI IN FILLING OUT A FORM, BUT THE GI ONLY PUTS DOWN HIS NAME, RANK, SERIAL NUMBER AND DATE OF BIRTH 00:52:53 - MS- AN ESCAPING SERGEANT RUNS AND CRAWLS THROUGH THE BRUSH AND QUICKLY RUNS ACROSS AN OPEN ROAD 00:54:50 - LS- ESCAPING GI TRIPS AND FALLS INTO A DITCH INJURING HIS ARM, BUT CONTINUES DOWN A ROAD. HE HIDES ALONG THE ROAD AS AN ENEMY CONVOY PASSES 00:56:36 - MS- 2 GIS GUARDING U.S. LINES SPOT THE CRAWLING ESCAPEE JUST AS HE PASSES OUT. HE IS RESCUED.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1958
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1104B