- Title: VM-1106B
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:31:42 - "THAYER OF WEST POINT" LOWELL THOMAS NARRATES THIS STORY OF THE 'FATHER OF WEST POINT'. AN OUTSTANDING CAST RECREATES THE LIFE OF SYLVANUS THAYER AT THE ACADEMY 00:31:47 - MONTAGE- OLD PICTURESQUE BUILDINGS THAT MAKE UP THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT. 00:31:50 - MS- STUDENTS SIT ERECTLY DURING A SERVICE IN THE WEST POINT CHAPEL 00:32:11 - MS- CADETS CARRYING BOOKS MARCH TO CLASSES 00:32:23 - MS- STATUE OF COLONEL SYLVANUS THAYER, FATHER OF THE MILITARY ACADEMY. (ZOOM IN ON HIS FACE) 00:32:58 - MS- PAINTING OF WEST POINT IN THE EARLY 1800'S. 00:33:10 - MS- A CADET DURING THE EARLY 1800'S BRUSHES HIS HAIR BEFORE A MIRROR IN HIS ROOM (A REENACTMENT) OLIVER, A SNOBBISH RICH BOY WALKS IN WITH CANE AND TOP HAT IN HAND STATES, "I'M BACK"! 00:33:20 - MS- OLIVER IS UPSET ABOUT THE NEW SUPERINTENDANT THAYER, PLACING A PUBLIC NOTICE IN NEWSPAPER ORDERING ALL STUDENTS BACK TO THE ACADEMY. 00:33:42 - MS- THE ROOMMATE READS OTHER NEW RULE BY THAYER, WHICH INCLUDES, "NO CADET SHALL HAVE A WAITER,A HORSE OR DOG". 00:34:24 - CU- IN ASTONISHMENT, OLIVER SAYS, "I WONDER IF THAT INCLUDES A VALET" 00:34:50 - ANGRY OLIVER STATES "SOMETHING MUST BE DONE, I SHALL NOTIFY FATHER". 00:34:55 - MS- AN ANGRY FATHER FACES SUPERINTENDENT THAYER (BACK TO CAMERA) ASKING WHY HIS SON CANNOT LIVE IN HIS ACCUSTOMED MANNER. HE THREATENS THAYER WITH HIS "INFLUENCE IN HIGHER PLACES". 00:35:05 - MS- WHEM THAYER IS NOT IMPRESSED, THE FATHER ANGRILY LEAVES THE ROOM. 00:35:19 - A STUDENTS (ACTOR GEORGE SEGAL) SITS RESTLESSLY IN A CLASSROOM AND THROWS A SLATE PENCIL AT THE TEACHER WHO IS WRITING ON A BLACKBOARD. 00:36:52 - MS- THE STUDENT (SEGAL) MAKES GESTURE OF DISBELIEF WHEN THE TEACHER PICKS HIM OUT AS THE CULPRIT. 00:37:00 - MS- THE STUDENT MAKES A GESTURE OF BOREDOM AS HE GOES BEFORE THAYER WHERE HE IS DISMISSED. 00:37:21 - MS- A STUDENT SITS AT HIS DESK AND WRITES LETTER, WITH A QUILL PEN, TO HIS BROTHER. 00:38:09 - CU- A CADET BEATING ON A SNARE DRUM ANNOUNCING DRILL. CU- MARCHING FEET AS WORK INTENSIFIES UNDER THAYER WITH EVERY HOUR BEING UTILIZED 00:39:21 - MS- A CADET NEATLY ARRANGES HIS CLOTHING ON SHELVES IN A SPECIFIC MANNER. 00:39:30 - MS- A CADET WRITES A LETTER HOME, PAN TO HIS FEET IN A POT OF HOT WATER. 00:41:12 - CU- PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG THAYER AFTER GRADUATION FROM DARTMOUTH WITH HIGHEST HONORS. DRAWINGS OF THE WAR OF 1812 WHERE THAYER SERVED AS ENGINEER. 00:41:32 - MS- DRAWINGS OF NAPOLEON REVIEWING CADETS AT FRENCH ACADEMY. 00:42:00 - MS- DRAWINGS OF NAPOLEON'S BATTLE AT WATETRLOO. MS- DRAWING OF THE FRENCH MILITARY SCHOOL WHERE THAYER TOURED. 00:42:48 - MS- DRAWINGS IN BOOKS, OF FRENCH MILITARY ARCHECTURE, WHICH THAYER SENT BACK TO THE U.S. 00:44:00 - MS- AIMING AT INTENSIFYING TRAINING AT THE ACADEMY. THAYER PROMOTES A FRENCH TEACHER TO PROFESSOR BECAUSE ALL THE BEST MILITARY BOOKS WERE IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. 00:44:55 - MS- THE ACADEMIC BOARD ESTABLISHED BY THAYER MEETS IN SESSION. 00:45:20 - LS- THE ACADEMY LIBRARY ONE OF THE OLDEST BUILDINGS THERE, A SYMBOL OF THAYER'S EFFORTS. 00:45:40 - MS- ENGINEERING PROFESSOR SHOWS CADETS VARIOUS PROJECTS AS THAYER ESTABLISHES THE FIRST SYSTEMATIC ENGINEERING COURSE IN THE U.S. 00:46:20 - MONTAGE- STUDENTS OF YORE STUDY THEIR ENGINEERING PROJECTS LATE INTO THE NIGHT. 00:46:55 - MS- A STUDENT COVERS HIS WINDOW WITH A BLANKET SO HE CAN CONTINUE STUDYING WITHOUT DETECTION. 00:48:00 - MS- THE CADET ADMITS TO THAYER THAT HE STAYED UP AFTER HOURS TO COMPLETE HIS STUDIES. THAYER HAS HIM REPORT FOR PUNISHMENT. 00:49:08 - LS- MODERN CADETS MARCH AT THE ACADEMY'S PARADE GROUND. MS- PAN OF A CADETS NEATLY KEPT ROOM. 00:49:30 - MONTAGE- CADETS AT STUDY HALLS AND IN CLASSROOMS. 00:50:22 - MS- STUDENTS EXIT THAYER HALL. 00:50:50 - MS- PORTRAIT OF SYLVANUS THAYER. 00:51:18 - MS- OLD PAINTINGS OF THE OLD WEST PRAIRIES AND PIONEERS STRUGGLING THROUGH THE SNOW. 00:52:18 - MONTAGE- OLD DRAWINGS OF THAYER'S MEN SETTING OUT TO FIND ROUTES FOR FUTURE RAILROADS. CU- DRAWINGS OF A BIRD'S LEG, FISH AND SNAKES WERE ALL BROUGHT BACK TO THE ACADEMY BY THE ACADEMY PIONEERS. 00:53:53 - MS- DRAWINGS OF THEIR CONTACTS WITH INDIANS AND RAILROAD BUILDING AT THE TIME. DRAWING OF A HUGE HERD OF BUFFALO NEXT TO A RAILROAD TRAIN. 00:55:00 - MONTAGE- HUGE FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS, BRIDGES & GREAT DAMS. 00:55:05 - MS- DRAWINGS OF THE MEXICAN WAR AND CIVIL WAR 00:56:38 - CU- PHOTOS OF GENERALS GRANT, LEE, STONEWALL JACKSON AND SHERMAN. 00:56:48 - FILM OF GENERALS PERSHING, MACARTHUR, EISENHOWER, CLARK AND BRADLEY. IKE 00:57:55 - LS- CADETS AND LEADERS STAND AT ATTENTION AT THE STATUE OF COLONEL SYLVANUS THAYER
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1910
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1910s
- File Name: VM-1106B