- Title: VM-1113B
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:31:25 - "HISTORY OF FIREPOWER" DOCUMENTS MODERN FIREPOWER FROM CAVEMAN'S CRUDE WEAPONRY TO TODAY'S SOPHISTICATED MISSILE POWER. 00:31:30 - LS- 2 PRIZEFIGHTERS SLUG IT OUT IN A RING, ONE OF THEM THROWS RIGHT HOOK AND KNOCKS THE OTHER OUT 00:32:30 - MS- 3 MODELS OF MISSILES ON THE NARRATORS DESK AS HE TALKS ABOUT THE U.S ARMY'S KNOCK-OUT PUNCH IN IT'S FIRE POWER. 00:32:44 - MONTAGE- MISSILES OF ALL KINDS BLAST OFF. 00:33:29 - MS- DRAWINGS OF CAVE DWELLERS FIGHTING WITH ROCKS AND CLUBS. 00:33:50 - MS- DRAWING OF DAVID KILLING GOLIATH WITH HIS SLING SHOT. HE HOLDS GOLIATH'S HUGE HEAD IN HIS HAND AFTER CUTTING IT OFF 00:34:00 - MS-DRAWINGS OF THE USE OF THE CATAPULT WHEN ATTACKING A CASTLE FORTIFICATION. 00:34:23 - MS- A SOLDIER OF YORE AIMS HIS CROSSBOW AND AN ENGLISHMAN USING HIS LONG BOW. 00:34:43 - MONTAGE- DRAWINGS OF EARLY CANNONS AS ARMIES EXPERIMENT WITH GUN POWDER. 00:34:55 - CU- REENACTMENT OF MUSKETEER LIGHTING THE WICK ON HIS RIFLE, AIMING AND FIRING. 00:35:00 - CU- EARLY ORNATE FLINTLOCK PISTOLS 00:35:44 - MONTAGE- DRAWINGS OF NAPOLEON'S ARMY USING CANNON MONTAGE- DRAWINGS OF CIVIL WAR BATTLE SCENES WHICH WAS WON WITH SUPERIOR FIRE POWER. 00:36:11 - CU- EARLY GATTLING GUN WITH BARRELS IN A HORIZONTAL ROW RATHER THAN A CIRCLE WHICH IS ALSO SHOWN. 00:36:21 - MONTAGE- DRAWINGS OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. 00:36:46 - MONTAGE- BATTLE SCENES OF WWI AND IT'S WEAPONS. 00:37:15 - LS- TRUCK PULLING A CANNON IS BOGGED DOWN IN MUD. 00:37:30 - MS- GERMAN SOLDIERS LOAD A HUGE SHELL INTO A 'BIG BERTHA' CANNON AND FIRE FROM ITS MOUNT ON RAILWAY CAR. IT'S USE WAS LIMITED TO WHEREVER THE TRACKS WOULD LEAD. LS- HUGE EXPLOSION CAUSED BY THE SHELL 00:38:00 - LS- ARMY ROLLS OUT AND TESTS A PLANE BOUGHT FROM THE WRIGHT BROTHERS. 00:38:18 - LS- A DOG FIGHT IN PROGRESS DURING WWI. 00:39:00 - MS- DRAWING OF ANCIENT WARRIOR ON HIS CHARIOT. HANNIBAL'S ELEPHANTS IN BATTLE. 00:39:44 - LS- WWI TANKS IN ACTION 00:39:59 - CU- PAN FROM HITLER'S OUTSTRETCHED ARM IN SALUTE TO HIS FACE. 00:40:40 - MONTAGE- U.S. WAR PLANTS PRODUCING BULLETS. TANKS, CANNON AND JEEPS GIVING U.S. AWESOME FIRE POWER. 00:42:00 - MONTAGE- THE FLYING FORTRESS; ROLLING OUT OF A HANGAR AND DROPPING BOMBS ON ENEMY. 00:42:56 - DRAWINGS OF CHINESE USING ROCKETS TO REPEL MONGOL INVADERS AND FLAMMABLE TARGETS LIKE WOODEN SHIPS. 00:43:28 - MS-DRAWING SHOWS FRANCIS SCOTT KEY WATCHING 'ROCKETS RED GLARE' OVER FORT MCHENRY. 00:44:22 - MS- DRAWING OF U.S. TROOPS IN MEXICO WHERE ROCKETS WERE USED ON A LIMITED BASIS. 00:44:30 - MS- PHOTO OF DOCTOR ROBERT H. GODDARD AN AMERICAN WHO MADE BREAK-THROUGH ON ROCKET GUIDANCE. 00:45:00 - MS- NAZI SOLDIERS CARRY A SMALL MISSILE ONTO A FIELD FOR TESTING. LS- THE MISSILE TAKES OFF MAKES A TUMBLE IN THE AIR AND CRASHES TO THE GROUND THE NAZI'S PICK UP THE REMAINS OF THE MISSILE. 00:45:34 - CU- GERMAN SCIENTIST SHOWS MODEL OF A V-1 ROCKET LS- A V-1 BEING LAUNCHED AGAINST ENGLAND IN 1944. 00:45:52 - LS- BIG BEN AND THE LONDON SKYLINE. SIGN: 'AIR RAID SHELTER'. MS- PEOPLE IN THE SUBWAY SHELTER LOOK UP AS THEY HEAR BOMBS EXPLODE ABOVE. 00:47:16 - AERIAL- VIEW FROM ABOVE OF A-BOMB EXPLOSION OVER HIROSHIMA. 00:48:18 - MONTAGE- WAR SCENES IN KOREA. 00:49:13 - LS- (PAN) HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SPENT SHELL CASINGS PILED HIGH AND AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE 00:49:25 - MS- DEAD BODIES LITTER THE FIELD (PAN) 00:49:50 - MONTAGE- BETTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE WEAPONS ARE DEMONSTRATED BY INSTRUCTORS. 00:53:30 - MONTAGE- NEW GUIDED MISSILES SUCH AS THE 'DART' AND THE SS-10 WHICH IS SHOWN BLOWING UP A TANK. 00:54:10 - LS- A 'CORPORAL' WHICH CAN CARRY AN ATOMIC WARHEAD IS TESTED.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1890
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1890s
- File Name: VM-1113B