- Title: VM-1118B
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:30:41 - "RANGER - MARK OF A MAN" THE AMERICAN RANGER. FILMED IN THE SWAMPS OF FLORIDA AND MOUNTAINS OF NORTH GEORGIA, IT DOCUMENTS THE RANGER'S COURAGE, DARING AND OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP. 00:30:46 - LS- AN EXPLOSION IN THE ROAD STOPS AN 'ENEMY' CONVOY OF TROOPS IN A WOODED AREA, AMBUSHED BY A HIDDEN U.S. RANGER FORCE IN MOCK EXERCISE 00:31:00 - MONTAGE- THE RANGERS WIPE OUT THE ENEMY WITH SMALL ARMS AND GRENADES. 00:32:00 - MS- STATUE OF A CROUCHING RANGER RUNNING WITH HIS RIFLE. THE WORD 'RANGER' COMES ACROSS THE SCREEN 00:32:07 - MS- A RANGER RUNS TOWARDS THE CAMERA YELLING, "RAAANGER". 00:32:09 - MS- AN INSTRUCTOR FACES A SQUAD OF RANGER TRAINEES SITTING ON THE GROUND. CU- A TRAINEE LISTENS AND SHOWS DEEP THOUGHT AS HE PONDERS HOW HE GOT HERE, AS HE TAKES NOTES.. 00:32:36 - LS- TRAINEES CHARGE OVER A HILL AND TOWARDS THE CAMERA AT CAMP IN FORT BENNING, GEORGIA. 00:32:46 - LS- A TRAINEE CLINGING ON A ROPE HIGH OVER STREAM LETS GO AND COMES SPLASHING DOWN INTO THE WATER. 00:33:00 - LS- RANGER SLIDES DOWN ROPE ON A PULLEY, FROM HIGH ACROSS A GORGE TOWARDS THE CAMERA AND SPLASHING INTO THE WATER AT THE BOTTOM, YELLING "RAAANGER"! 00:33:29 - MS- IN REENACTMENT, MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS AND THE 'ROGER'S RANGERS, BIVOUAC IN A FOREST BEFORE HE MOVES OUT ON MISSION DURING FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS IN COLONIAL DAYS. 00:33:55 - MS- A RANGER SNEAKS UP ON A SLEEPING INDIAN AND GARROTES HIM WITH A ROPE IN SCENES FROM MOVIE 'ROGER'S RANGERS'. 00:34:03 - RANGERS LYING IN AMBUSH FIRE UPON THE RUNNING, SURPRISED INDIANS. LS- INDIANS LEAP HIGH INTO THE AIR OVER A MOUND AND INTO A STREAM IN PANIC. 00:34:27 - MONTAGE- DRAWING AND REENACTED SCENES OF GENERAL MARION PARTISAN WHO HARASSED THE BRITISH IN AMBUSH AND RAIDS. 00:34:45 - MS- PHOTO OF JOHN MOSEBY AND HIS RAIDERS. PHOTO AND REENACTMENTS OF MORGAN OF THE CONFEDERACY, RAIDED UNION FORCES BEHIND THE LINES. 00:35:00 - MS- RANGER GETS HIS FACE BLACKENED WITH SHOE POLISH BY A BUDDY AS THEY JOIN BRITISH AND CANADIANS IN COMMANDO ATTACK ON DIEPPE IN WWII. 00:36:04 - MS- A RANGER FIRES A RIFLE GRENADE INTO THE AIR AT JAPANESE FORCES IN JUNGLE. 00:36:20 - LS- A FIELD FULL OF RANGERS TRAINING IN HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT. A TRAINEE RUNS TOWARD HIS OPPONENT AND GETS FLIPPED TO THE GROUND. 00:36:48 - MS- INSTRUCTOR ON PLATFORM SHOWING JUMPING AND TOE TOUCH CALISTHENICS TO TRAINEES WHO FOLLOW. 00:36:52 - MS- LONG LINE OF TRAINEES DO CHIN-UPS IN UNISON. MS- 2 CLIMB ROPES. LS- TRAINEES TOSS A LOG FROM ONE GROUP TO THE OTHER FACING THEM. 00:37:24 - MONTAGE- TRAINEES JOG DOUBLE-TIME UP HILLS AND ON ROADS IN WOODED AREAS, SINGING TO THE COUNT. 00:38:15 - MONTAGE- TRAINEES PAIR OFF AND COMBAT WITH RUBBER ENDED POLES, WRESTLE IN A BEAR PIT AND HAVE TUG-O-WAR MATCHES. 00:38:33 - MS- A BLACK TOP SERGEANT HOLDS A BAMBOO DYNAMITE STICK CHARGE AS AN INSTRUCTOR SHOWS THE TRAINEES IT'S USE. 00:39:06 - MS- 2 TRAINEES USE A COMPASS TO FIND THEIR WAY THROUGH A FOREST AT NIGHT. LS- MORE DEMOLITION TRAINING AND MORE RUNNING. 00:40:02 - LS- A JEEP LEADS A COLUMN OF TRUCKS WITH TRAINEES THROUGH SWAMP LANDS OF FLORIDA AND IS SUDDENLY ATTACKED BY 'ENEMY' PLANE, WHICH DROPS BOMBS 00:40:43 - MONTAGE- THE MEN JUMP FROM THE PLANES AND HIT THE DIRT IN BRUSH ON SIDE OF ROAD. 00:41:11 - MS- INSTRUCTOR PASSES OUT LIVE SNAKES TO THE TRAINEES AND TELL THEM THE SNAKE MAY BE THE MAIN COURSE FOR SUPPER. 00:41:26 - MS- INSTRUCTOR HOLDS A RATTLER BY THE BACK OF THE HEAD. WITH SNAKE'S MOUTH WIDE OPEN HE PLACES A PEN UNDER IT'S FANGS. 00:41:48 - MS- 2 RANGERS SWIM ACROSS A STREAM USING A PONCHO AS A RAFT WHICH KEEPS RIFLES AND EQUIPMENT DRY 00:42:22 - MS- TRAINEES JOT DOWN NOTES AS THEY ARE TOLD HOW TO PATROL (PAN). RANGERS CAUTIOUSLY PATROL THROUGH A FOREST. 00:43:10 - MONTAGE- THE RANGES PATROL THROUGH A SWAMP WALKING THROUGH ANKLE DEEP TO WAIST DEEP WATER LASTING DAY AND NIGHT AND FINALLY BEING OUT OF THE SWAMP THE NEXT MORNING. 00:44:22 - LS- RANGERS CRAWL TOWARD THEIR OBJECTIVE, AN ENEMY COMMUNICATION CENTER, WHICH THEY OVERRUN AND TAKE CAPTIVES. 00:45:38 - MS- A RANGER WALKS ACROSS A LOG 30 FEET ABOVE A STREAM WITH AN OBSTACLE IN THE MIDDLE HE HAS TO CLIMB OVER EXPLOSIVES GO OFF IN THE STREAM BELOW 00:46:00 - LS- RANGER IN THE CENTER OF THE LOG GRABS ONTO A ROPE STRETCHED ACROSS THE STREAM AS EXPLOSIVES GO OFF UNDER HIM. HE LETS GO AND FALLS 30 FEET TO THE STREAM AND SWIMS TO SHORE. 00:46:54 - LS- RANGER TRAINEES LAND ON A BEACH IN SMALL BOATS AT NIGHT, THEIR OBJECTIVE TO DESTROY 'ENEMY' MISSILE SITE AT FORT PICKENS ON SANTA ROSA ISLAND. 00:47:55 - MS- RANGERS QUIETLY SNEAK UP AND SET UP THEIR WEAPONS ALONG A WALL. THE OFFICER BLOWS A WHISTLE AND THE RANGERS BEGIN FIRING. 00:49:10 - MS- A RANGER SETS A CHARGE AND THEY ALL RUN BACK TO BEACH AS EXPLOSIVES DESTROY THE INSTALLATION. 00:50:00 - LS- INSTRUCTOR SHOWS TRAINEES HOW TO QUICKLY CLIMB DOWN A 30 FOOT LOG WALL MOUNTAINEER STYLE. MS- A TRAINEE TRIES BUT FAILS. 00:50:21 - MONTAGE- TRAINEES SPEEDILY SCALE DOWN 60 FOOT CLIFF. A TRAINEE IS ORDERED TO DO PUSH-UP FOR NOT FOLLOWING PROPER CLIMBING PROCEDURES 00:50:49 - MS- RANGER, HIGH ON A HILL, SLIDES DOWN A ROPE STRETCHED ACROSS A STREAM AT A STEEP ANGLE. HE SLIDES DOWN AND INTO THE WATER WITH A SPLASH. 00:51:13 - MS- ANOTHER TRAINEE INCHES ACROSS THE STREAM STRADDLING THE ROPE. ANOTHER WALKS ACROSS USING A 3 ROPE BRIDGE METHOD. 00:52:00 - LS- RANGER SLIDES ON ROPE YELLING,"RAAANGER" AS SEEN FROM BEHIND HIM AS HE GOES DOWN. 00:52:20 - MS- RANGERS CLIMB A SMALL ROPE LADDER 80 FEET UP A TALL TREE TO THE CABLE WHICH THEY SLIDE DOWN AND ACROSS THE STREAM. 00:52:27 - MS- RANGER LANDS IN WATER, MAKING A HUGE SPLASH. 00:53:08 - MONTAGE- RANGERS ON A MOCK MISSION 50 MILES AWAY, WADE THROUGH STREAMS TO KEEP OFF ROADS AND AVOID DETECTION. 00:54:53 - MS- RANGER MAKES AN ANIMAL CALL TO ATTRACT A FRIENDLY PARTISAN HILLBILLY WHO GIVES THEM LIVE CHICKENS FOR FOOD FOR THE MEN. 00:56:12 - MS- A RANGER OVERPOWERS AN 'ENEMY' GUARD WHEN THEY REACH THEIR OBJECTIVE. MONTAGE- A FIRE FIGHT BREAKS OUT. THE RANGERS SET CHARGES, BLOW UP THE INSTALLATION AND QUICKLY GET OUT. 00:57:58 - LS- AT GRADUATION THE RANGER TAB IS PLACED ON THE TRAINEES SHOULDER MAKING IT OFFICIAL
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1917
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1910s
- File Name: VM-1118B