- Title: VM-1107B
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:32:24 - "THE EISENHOWER STORY" RAYMOND MASSEY NARRATES THIS FILM BIOGRAPHY OF GENERAL EISENHOWER WHICH IS CLIMAXED WITH D-DAY IN EUROPE. 00:32:29 - STORY OF EISENHOWER (IKE) THE SOLDIER. GENERAL IKE STANDS IN OPEN LIMO IN JUNE 1945, AS HIS MOTORCADE ROLLS DOWN A STREET IN ABILENE, KANSAS; HIS HOME TOWN 00:33:03 - LS- IKE WITH WIFE NEXT TO HIM RAISES HIS HAT AND SMILES FROM THE REVIEWING STAND AS A FLOAT GOES BY WITH HIS CLASS MOTTO "NOT AT TOP BUT CLIMBING" 00:33:19 - MS- HE AND MAMIE STAND, HE SALUTES AS US FLAGS ARE PARADED BY 00:33:27 - MONTAGE- WARSHIPS BOMBARD AND LANDING CRAFT HIT THE BEACHES OF NORMANDY ON D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944 00:33:59 - MS- GENERAL IKE WATCHES INVASION FROM WARSHIP. 00:34:13 - AERIAL- PAN OF ABILENE, KANSAS, HOME OF DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. MS- TOWN CHAPEL AND SMALL TOWN TRAFFIC WITH PARALLEL PARKING 00:34:42 - LS- THE EISENHOWER MUSEUM. MS- 2 YOUNG BOYS WALK INTO THE MUSEUM AND PERUSE THE HUGE WALL MURALS DEPICTING IKE'S LIFE. A PHOTO OF IKE'S FARM HOME WHERE HE WAS BORN IN TENNISON, TEXAS IN 1891 00:35:36 - MS- EARLY PHOTOS OF IKE'S PARENTS. 00:35:37 - MS- EARLY PHOTO OF ABILENE WHERE IKE'S PARENTS RETURNED AFTER HIS BIRTH IN TEXAS. 00:35:45 - MONTAGE- CLASS PHOTO OF IKE AS A SMALL BOY AND A FAMILY PHOTO WITH HIS PARENTS AND 5 BROTHERS. 00:36:13 - MONTAGE- PHOTOS OF IKE WITH HIS HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL AND FOOTBALL TEAMS 00:36:43 - LS- IKE'S HOME IN ABILENE OUTSIDE AND INSIDE SHOWS THE RELIGIOUS AND PATRIOTIC CONVICTIONS OF THE EISENHOWER FAMILY. CU- A LIBRARY BOOK RACK 00:37:23 - MS- MURAL OF IKE'S FAMILY WORKING HARD ON THE FARM IS DEPICTED AT THE MUSEUM. 00:37:28 - LS- THE CREAMERY WHERE IKE WORKED DURING HIS SPARE TIME. 00:37:46 - CU- MURAL DEPICTING IKE WITH SUITCASE LEAVING FOR WEST POINT. LS- CADETS MARCHING AT WEST POINT PARADE GROUNDS. CU- IKE'S 1915 GRADUATION DIPLOMA 00:38:32 - MS- PHOTO AND MURAL OF IKE'S WEDDING PICTURE WITH MAMIE DOWD. 00:38:54 - MS- YOUNG LIEUTENANT EISENHOWER WITH OTHER OFFICERS POSE IN GROUP PHOTO DURING WWI IN WHICH HE NEVER FOUGHT 00:39:26 - MS- MAJOR DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER POSES IN CIVILIAN SUIT IN LATE 1920s. 00:39:43 - MS- IKE STANDS BEHIND GENERAL MACARTHUR IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS BOTH IN WHITE SUITS AND STRAW HATS. 00:39:54 - MS- MACARTHUR AT HIS DESK WITH MAJOR EISENHOWER AS HIS AIDE, LOOKING ON. 00:40:26 - MONTAGE- GERNMAN TANKS AND PLANES ATTACKING IN THE EUROPE OF 1940 00:40:39 - LS- FDR ANNOUNCES THE SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT 00:41:19 - MS- COLONEL EISENHOWER POSES WITH GENERAL WALTER KRUGER. IKE WAS HIS CHIEF OF STAFF 00:41:33 - MONTAGE- AMERICAN SOLDIERS PUT ON REALISTIC MANEUVERS IN 1940 00:41:59 - CU- PHOTO OF IKE WHEN PROMOTED TO BRIGADIER GENERAL SOON BEFORE JAPANESE BOMBED PEARL HARBOR 00:42:03 - MONTAGE- INFAMOUS SCENES OF JAPANESE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR. 00:42:31 - MS- IKE WITH PLANNING GROUP AT THE WAR DEPARTMENT 00:43:04 - MS- MURAL DEPICTS IKE AS LEADER OF ALLIED FORCES 00:43:11 - MONTAGE- BOMBARDMENT AND INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA IS DEPICTED IN ANIMATED MAP AND FILM. 00:44:10 - CU- BOOTS SLUSHING IN WET MUD AN GIS DIGGING OUT THEIR VEHICLES AS TREACHEROUS WEATHER BOGGED DOWN THE U.S. TROOPS 00:44:35 - CU- GERMAN SOLDIER OF THE AFRIKA CORP WITH HIS HANDS UP IN SURRENDER 00:44:49 - LS- ARAB TROOPS ON HORSEBACK AND FRENCH, U.S. & BRITISH TROOPS MARCH IN COLORFUL VICTORY PARADE REVIEWED BY IKE. 00:45:30 - MS- IKE GETS MEDAL AND KISS FROM FRENCH GENERAL 00:45:46 - MONTAGE- THE INVASION OF SICILY IS DEPICTED ON MURAL AND FILM OF THE BATTLE WHICH FELL IN 1943 ALONG WITH ITALY'S SURRENDER. 00:46:12 - MONTAGE- INVASION OF ITALY'S MAINLAND AT SALERNO IS DEPICTED IN A MURAL AND IN FILM. 00:47:05 - MS- GENERAL IKE AND GENERAL MARK CLARK EXIT A TENT AT THE ITALIAN FRONT 00:47:22 - MS- PRESIDENT FDR RIDES INJEEP AS HE INSPECTS THE TROOPS DURING HIS SUMMIT MEETING IN TEHRAN, WHICH IS ALSO DEPICTED IN A MURAL 00:47:31 - MS- FDR, STALIN AND CHURCHILL POSE AT MEETING. 00:48:16 - MS- IKE AND ALLIED MILITARY LEADERS PLAN THE INVASION OF EUROPE AT A WALL MAP. 00:48:28 - MONTAGE- GERMAN FILM OF THEIR FORTIFICATIONS AT THE FRENCH SIDE OF THE CHANNEL 00:48:46 - MS- IKE AND OTHER GENERALS WATCH GIS IN TRAINING FOR D-DAY. MS- CHURCHILL VISITS THE TROOPS. 00:49:14 - MS- IKE VISITS THE AMERICAN PARATROOPERS WITH THEIR BLACKENED FACES ABOUT TO JUMP OVER NORMANDY 00:49:40 - MS- CANNONS OF A WARSHIP MOVE INTO POSITION, SAILORS HOLD THEIR EARS AND THE BOMBARDMENT OF NORMANDY COMMENCES. ALSO DEPICTED IN MUSEUM MURAL 00:51:22 - MS- IKE AND GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY CHAT AT FRONT GENERAL PATTON RIDES BY HIS TANKS IN A JEEP 00:51:44 - LS- HUGE ARMY OF GIS MARCH UNDER THE ARCH DE TRIOMPE IN PARIS. 00:52:10 - MONTAGE- THE BATTLE OF THE 'BULGE' IS DEPICTED IN FILM AND IN A MURAL AT THE EISENHOWER MUSEUM AS IS THE FAMOUS BRIDGE AT REMAGEN 00:53:32 - MONTAGE- ALLIED TROOPS MOVING THROUGH THE RUBBLE OF GERMAN CITIES IS DEPICTED IN FILM AND MURAL. 00:54:02 - MS- GERMAN GENERALS SIT AT TABLE IN A SCHOOLHOUSE TO SURRENDER TO THE ALLIES. ALSO SEEN IN MURAL 00:54:15 - MS- IKE MAKES A VICTORY SPEECH TO AMERICAN PEOPLE 00:56:08 - MONTAGE- IKE RECEIVES A TUMULTUOUS TICKER TAPE PARADE IN NEW YORK. 00:57:09 - MS- ON FEBRUARY 7, 1948 IKE AND MAMIE LEAVE THEIR MILITARY HOME AS IKE QUITS HIS MILITARY SERVICE 00:57:22 - LS- IKE, IN CAP AND GOWN, MAKES A SPEECH AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AS IT'S PRESIDENT. ALSO DEPICTED IN A MURAL 00:57:59 - MONTAGE- IKE REVIEWS FOREIGN TROOPS AS HE IS REACTIVATED TO SERVE AS SUPREME COMMANDER OF NATO 00:58:49 - MS- IKE TURNS OVER COMMAND OF NATO TO GENERAL MATTHEW RIDGEWAY AS THEY BOTH SALUTE THE FLAG 00:59:19 - MS- MURAL DEPICTS IKE BEING SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT 00:59:39 - LS- THE 2 YOUNG BOYS EXIT THE EISENHOWER MUSEUM 00:59:50 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1950
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1107B