- Title: VM-1124B
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:31:33 - ACTOR AUDIE MURPHY NARRATES AND APPEARS IN THIS FILM. 00:31:45 - MS- AUDIE MURPHY APPROACHES HIS TWO LITTLE BOYS PLAYING ON THE LIVING ROOM FLOOR WITH ARMY TOYS. 00:31:50 - CU- ONE OF THE BOYS ASKS AUDIE TO FIX HIS MISSILE AUDIE TELLS THE BOY HE CAN'T BECAUSE "THEY DIDN'T HAVE THESE WHEN I WAS IN THE ARMY".CU- AUDIE IN DEEP THOUGHT 00:32:43 - AERIAL- VIEW OF GERMAN CITY AFTER THE WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION. 00:32:57 - AERIAL- PAN OF HITLER'S STADIUM IN NUREMBERG. MURPHY WALKS DOWN THE CENTER OF THE STADIUM AND IS SUPERIMPOSED WITH THE HUGE CROWD ATTENDING A HITLER SPEECH THERE IN 1939. 00:33:17 - LS- MURPHY WALKS UP THE STEPS OF THE EERILY EMPTY STADIUM WITH WEEDS GROWING THROUGH THE CRACKS. HE REACHES THE TOP BALCONY WHERE HITLER SPOKE TO OVER A MILLION SUBJECT IN THE STADIUM 00:34:11 - MS- MURPHY TALKS INTO THE CAMERA,"THE PRICE OF PEACE IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE". 00:34:43 - MS- MURPHY VISITS," HEADQUARTERS OF THE 3RD INFANTRY DIVISION"(SIGN ABOVE ENTRANCE),HIS OLD OUTFIT. 00:34:47 - MS- MURPHY IS ESCORTED ON A TOUR OF NATO BASES BY COLONEL KENDALL A FORMER COMPANY COMMANDER OF AUDEY'S. THEY STOP WALKING AND CHAT. 00:35:41 - MS- MURPHY INSPECTS RIFLES OF A SQUAD WHICH STAND AT ATTENTION IN FRONT OF HIM. MURPHY GRABS AN M-1 OUT OF THE HANDS OF GI AND LOOKS IT OVER 00:36:10 - MS- AUDEY IS SHOWN A 'CORPORAL' MISSILE ON IT'S LAUNCH PAD, THEY COMPARE IT WITH THE GERMAN HUGE ARTILLERY DURING WWII. 00:36:52 - AERIAL- PAN OF THE CORPORAL FROM ITS NOSE CONE LOOKING DOWN AT MURPHY AND THE MISSILE CREW BELOW 00:37:50 - MS- MURPHY AND THE COLONEL WALK ALONG AN OUTDOOR CAFE' WHICH OVERLOOKS OSLO, NORWAY. 00:38:18 - MONTAGE- NORWEGIAN NATO OFFICER SHOWS MURPHY SEVERAL MISSILE BATTERIES IN NORWAY 00:39:40 - TALKING HEADS- AUDIE MURPHY AND COLONEL KENDALL DISCUSS THEIR NEXT VISIT. 00:40:10 - MS- MURPHY AND KENDALL GETS OUT OF A HELICOPTER WHICH DELIVERS THEM TO THE BARRACKS AREA OF THE 2ND ARMORED CAVALRY REGIMENT NEAR THE RED BORDER. 00:40:40 - MONTAGE- AUDIE RIDES IN A CONVOY OF 4 JEEPS TO THE EAST BERLIN BORDER. TALKING HEADS 00:42:00 - ELS- COMMUNIST OBSERVATION TOWER AS SEEN THROUGH BINOCULARS BY MURPHY. 00:42:30 - MS- THE 4 JEEPS STOP AT A ROAD BLOCK WHICH THEY CLIMB OVER AND WALK ACROSS. IT LEADS THEM TO A BRIDGE WITH SECTION REMOVED MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO CROSS. 00:44:53 - MS- AUDIE MURPHY JOINS TOWNS PEOPLE WATCHING A HUGE MISSILE BEING TRANSPORTED THROUGH HEART OF TOWN FOLLOWED BY HORSE AND WAGON WITH LOAD OF HAY 00:45:24 - TALKING HEADS-MURPHY AND KENDALL DISCUSS THE PASSING 'REDSTONE' MISSILE. 00:45:50 - MS- MURPHY RIDES BY JEEP TO A REDSTONE MISSILE SITE BY THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE 40TH FIELD ARTILLERY GROUP WHO TELLS ALL ABOUT 'REDSTONE'. 00 47 16 AERIAL- VENICE, ITALY WITH IT'S FAMOUS GRAND CANAL MURPHY WATCHES ITALIAN TROOPS LOAD 'HONEST JOHN' MISSILE ONTO A MOBILE CARRIER 00:47:00 - MS- MURPHY MEETS GENERAL JACK DALY AND ITALIAN GENERAL ORLANDO AT MISSILE SITE IN ITALIAN ALPS 00:48:34 - MS- MURPHY WATCHES AN 'HONEST JOHN MISSILE BEING RAISED ON IT'S LAUNCHER. 00:49:10 - MS- MURPHY WATCHES A COLORFUL PARADE IN TURKEY WITH PARADERS DRESSED IN ANCIENT WARRIOR COSTUMES AND TROOPS WITH CURVED SWORDS RAISED IN THE AIR. 00:49:34 - LS- CHILDREN PARADE IN ANCIENT COSTUME. FOLLOWED BY MODERN TURKISH TROOPS PARADING SMARTLY DOWN AVENUE. TANKS, ARMORED VEHICLES, ARTILLERY AND MISSILES PASS IN REVIEW. 00:50:10 - MS- HARDENED FACES OF TURKISH YOUNG AND OLD MEN WATCH THE PARADE. 00:50:36 - LS- 13TH CENTURY'S ST. SOPHIA'S MOSQUE IN ISTANBUL MS- MURPHY AND COLONEL KENDALL SIT ON A PARK BENCH IN THE SHADOW OF MOSQUE AND PERUSE A MAP. 00:51:42 - MS- AUDIE MURPHY ARRIVES AT WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS WITH GENERAL TRUDEAU, WHO SHOWS THE FIRING OF THE 'SERGEANT' MISSILE. 00:52:35 - LS- MURPHY AND THE GENERAL WATCH THE FIRING IN THE DISTANCE. 00:54:40 - MS- MURPHY LOOKS THROUGH BINOCULARS AT TARGET THE 'LACROSSE' MISSILE HITS FROM 6 MILES AWAY. 00:56:00 - LS- MURPHY WATCHES A PLANE BEING SHOT OUT OF THE AIR BY A MISSILE. 00:56:24 - MS- GENERAL TRUDEAU HANDS MURPHY A 'REDEYE' MISSILE LAUNCHER WHICH IS FIRED FROM THE SHOULDER LIKE A BAZOOKA AND CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN A JET. 00:57:00 - MS- GENERAL TRUDEAU SHOWS AND EXPLAINS THE NIKE 'ZEUS' AN ANTI-MISSILE MISSILE. 00:57:43 - MS- GENERAL TRUDEAU GIVES MURPHY A SCALE MODEL OF THE NIKE 'ZEUS FOR HIS SONS. 00:57:52 - MS- MURPHY GIVES THE SCALE MODEL TO HIS BOYS PLAYING ON THE LIVING ROOM FLOOR. AUDIE MURPHY MAKES A CLOSING SPEECH.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1950
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: VM-1124B