- Title: VM-1109B
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE: "THE QAURTERMASTER STORY" RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT IN THE ARMY'S QUARTERMASTER CORPS
- Description:01:02:21 - NARRATOR STUART QUEEN SHOWS A BOOT WHOSE SOLE IS MOULDED ON IN MANUFACTURE TO LAST FOR THE LIFE OF THE SHOE. 01:03:17 - CU CONTOUR PACKAGING SHOWS HOW A BUNDLE OF CLOTHING IS COMPRESSED INTO A PLASTIC CONTAINER TAKING UP A FRACTION OF SPACE AS THE UNPACKAGED. 01:03:26 - CU SQUEEZE TUBES CONTAINING A CHICKEN DINNER AND A DESSERT FOR OUTER SPACE TRAVELERS. ASTRONAUT FOOD 01:03:50 - SCALE MODEL OF A SOLAR OVEN. CU THICK STEEL PLATE WITH A HOLE BURNED THROUGH IT BY SOLAR ENERGY. CU IRRADIATED FOOD STUFFS WRAPPED IN PLASTIC WHICH DOES NOT SPOIL IS SHOWN. (PAN) 01:04:52 - ANIMATED DRAWINGS SHOW HOW THE FOOD IS PASSED ON CONVEYER BELT AND RADIATED, REVOLUTIONIZING FOOD STORAGE FOR THE MILITARY. 01:05:55 - RAGGED SOLDIERS OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY, SOME IN COONSKIN HATS, MARCH DOWN A ROAD TO BATTLE. 01:06:15 - MONTAGE DRAWINGS DEPICTING THE WAR OF 1812, THE CIVIL WAR AND THE WAR WITH SPAIN. EACH HAVING IT'S QUARTERMASTER CORP PROBLEMS. 01:06:50 - MONTAGE U.S. DOUGHBOYS ON BOARD SHIPS TO EUROPE A TREMENDOUS QUARTERMASTER UNDERTAKING. 01:07:14 - LONG COLUMNS OF TROOPS, HORSES & WAGONS PASSING THROUGH A FRENCH VILLAGE IN WWI. AERIAL HUGE TENT CITY WITH THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS 01:07:51 - TROOPS WADE INTO SHORE UNDER HEAVY FIRE AT NORMANDY, ON D-DAY OF WWII. 01:08:09 - MONTAGE TONS OF SUPPLIES ARE UNLOADED OFF SHIPS DURING WWII. 01:08:20 - THOUSANDS OF CRATES OF CHERRIES, APPLES & TOMATOES PILED HIGH ON A PIER. 01:08:25 - CU GI CUTS A PIECE OF MEAT IN HIS METAL DISH AS HE SITS ON THE GROUND AND EATS A HOT MEAL. 01:08:46 - GI WEARS BODY ARMOR IN THE FIELD IN KOREA. 01:09:15 - MONTAGE SUPPLIES ARE ROLLED BY CONVEYOR ONTO A CARGO PLANE FOR PARACHUTE DROP IN KOREA. 01:09:21 - LONG LINE OF FLAG DRAPED COFFINS ARE HONORED BEFORE BURIAL AT ARLINGTON CEMETERY. 01:09:49 - FORT LEE, VIRGINIA, HOME OF THE QUARTER MASTER CORP AND SCHOOL. 01:10:18 - SERGEANT SHOWS STUDENT GIS A SEWING MACHINE. BUTCHER SHOWS A CLASS DIFERENT CUTS OF BEEF 01:11:11 - CIVILIAN WORKER SITS AT A HUGE COMPUTER AT QUARTERMASTER BUILDING. ANOTHER WINDS UP ROLLS OF RECORDING TAPE. CU ROLLS SPIN AS THEY RECORD 01:11:30 - GIRLS AT THEIR TELETYPE MACHINES (PAN). MONTAGE PUNCH CARDS BEING SORTED BY MACHINE. 01:12:00 - PILES OF 'C' RATIONS IN A WAREHOUSE UP TO IT'S HIGH CEILING. CU WORKER STENCILS A NUMBER ON THE CRATES 01:12:35 - BLACK WORKER ADEPTLY MOVES SUPPLIES WITH HIS FORKLIFT. 01:12:46 - MONTAGE PILES OF OBSOLETE MACHINERY AND A DEPOT FILLED WITH OBSOLETE TRUCKS ARE SOLD BY QUARTERMASTER FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. 01:13:00 - MONTAGE MEN AND WOMEN TEST THE DURABILITY OF GOODS ON SPECIAL MACHINES. 01:13:17 - CU MECHANICAL LEG BENDS AND UNBENDS AT THE KNEE TESTING PANTS FOR DURABILITY. 01:13:22 - CU PAN OF HUNDREDS OF TOOLS AND UTENSILS HANDLED BY QUARTERMASTERS. 01:13:30 - PAN OF ROW UPON ROW OF SHELVES CONTAINING PARTS OF ALL TYPES AND NEEDS IN A HUGE WAREHOUSE 01:13:50 - NEW HEAVY DUTY FORKLIFT TRUCK THAT MOVES EASILY ON A BEACH AND LIFTS LARGE LOADS. 01:14:00 - AERIAL HUGE QUARTERMASTER DEPOT IN GERMANY. BLACK & WHITE GIS SIT AT DESKS DOING THE VAST PAPERWORK NEEDED TO MOVE SUPPLIES. 01:14:19 - HUGE STOCK OF PETROLEUM 50 GALLON DRUMS AT OUTDOOR DEPOT WITH CRANE LOADING THEM ON TRUCKS. GERMAN WORKERS FILL TANK CARS WITH PETROLEUM WITH HOSE FROM A PIPELINE. 01:14:42 - HUGE FLEXIBLE HOSE IS PULLED ON DOLLIES TO OIL TANKER IN HARBOR. AS WORKERS CONNECT THE HOSE TO SHIPS PIPELINE, A GI TURNS ON A HUGE VALVE. 01:15:00 - GI PATROLS AND CHECKS A PIPELINE RUNNING THROUGH A FOREST 01:15:11 - GI FOOD SPECIALISTS GATHER IN MEETING ROOM TO DISCUSS MENUS. GI CRITICS SIT IN BOOTHS AND TASTE FOOD SAMPLES AND JOT DOWN THEIR THOUGHTS. 01:15:25 - GI CHECKS SIDES OF BEEF HANGING IN FREEZER. LIVE FISH ARE DUMPED INTO BINS FROM HUGE NETS. CU BASKETS FULL OF POTATOES, PEPPERS, STRING BEANS, CUCUMBERS AND OTHER PRODUCE. 01:15:49 - MANY CHEFS WORKING IN KITCHEN. CU CHEF PULLS ROASTED HAM OUT OF OVEN TO CHECK IT. ANOTHER ADDS SPICE AND STIRS FOOD IN A LARGE PAN 01:16:19 - MONTAGE HANDS OF CHEFS DECORATING DISHES TO STIMULATE THE APPETITE. 4 GIS SIT AT TABLE TO EAT FROM THEIR GENEROUS TRAYS OF FOOD. 01:16:55 - TWO BAKERS WATCH A MACHINE CHURN A HUGE GLOB OF DOUGH. GI BAKER ROLLS OUT DOUGH FOR BREAD & PLACE THEM IN PORTABLE OVENS AT A FIELD BAKERY 01:17:20 - MONTAGE SOLDIERS AND HOUSEWIVES SHOP AT AN ARMY SUPERMARKET-COMMISSARY. 01:18:08 - CONVEYOR MOVES BREAD SLICES, IN PLASTIC WRAPPERS, UNDER AN IRRADIATION MACHINE 01:18:12 - MALE AND FEMALE GI CHECKS MANNEQUINS WEARING VARIOUS SERVICE UNIFORMS. 01:18:40 - WORKER SEWS FABRICK ON A SEWING MACHINE ANOTHER CUTS A PATTERN WITH A CUTTING MACHINE. 01:19:12 - WOMEN AT SEWING MACHINES IN A PLANT. 01:19:28 - TAILOR FITS A GI WITH A CUSTOM UNIFORM. 01:20:11 - AERIAL WORKERS AT THEIR MACHINES AT THE LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING PLANT OF THE QUARTERMASTER CORP 01:20:16 - BLACK GI TAKES HIS CLOTHING OUT OF THE WASHER AND PUTS IT IN A DRYER. 01:20:27 - TWO WOMEN WORKERS STACK SHEETS. BLACK GI SPRAYS A CHEMICAL BEFORE PRESSING A GARMENT 01:20:57 - MONTAGE GI VOLUNTEERS ARE PLACED IN TROPICAL AND ARCTIC CHAMBERS TO TEST CLOTHING AND IT'S EFFECTS ON THEIR PHYSICAL CONDITION. 01:22:53 - GIS WEARING SPECIAL PANCHOS CRAWL ON WET SURFACES AND ROLL ON SANDBAGS TO TEST THE MATERIAL. GROUPS OF GIS WALK ON MAN-MADE ROUGH SURFACES DESIGNED TO AGE THE SHOES 01:23:29 - FLASH FIRE BURNS THE CLOTHING OFF ONE DUMMY BUT LEAVES THE OTHER UNSCATHED. 01:23:50 - GI IN AN ALUMINIZED PAPER SUIT WALKS INTO BLAZING FIRE AND PUTS IT OUT WITH A HOSE. 01:24:51 - BULLET FIRED BY A GI IS REMOVED FROM NYLON VEST AFTER IT SUCCESSFULLY PREVENTED IT'S PENETRATION. 01:25:38 - NEW BOOT IS TESTED UNDER ARCTIC CONDITIONS. 01:26:00 - MONTAGE FEET OF GIS WALKING THROUGH ARCTIC SNOW AND TROPICAL SAND. 01:26:32 - GI STRIPS TO THE WAIST AND PLACES HIS SHIRT THROUGH A MACHINE TO TEST FOR ATOMIC FALL-OUT. 01:27:28 - SKILLED CHEMIST WORKING IN A QUARTERMASTER RESEARCH LAB TESTS INSECTICIDE ON A FISH TANK FILLED WITH CRAWLING COCKROACHES. 01:28:09 - GIS PUT TOGETHER PARACHUTE MATERIALS & FOLD THEM. GIS TIE DOWN JEEPS AND CANNONS FOR SAFE SHIPPING. THEN LOAD THEM ON TRUCKS. 01:29:05 - HUGE LOAD OF HEAVY EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES ARE ROLLED OUT OF THE BACK OF A CARGO PLANE & DROPPED WITH PARACHUTES. 01:29:12 - SERGEANT STUART QUEEN DISCUSSES QUARTERMASTER'S DUTIES AND ENDS PROGRAM 01:29:43 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1954
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1109B