- Title: VM-1125B
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:32:28 - ARMY DIGEST NO. 8 A TWO SUBJECT PRESENTATION FEATURING "THE MATTHEW BRADY STORY", THE CIVIL WAR'S PHOTOGRAPHIC GENIUS; & CLARA BARTON, THE PERSONAL CHRONICLE OF THE WOMAN WHO FOUNDED THE RED CROSS. 00:32:33 - CU- LOOKING INTO THE EYE OF CAMERA LENS (ZOOM IN) 00:33:25 - CU- PHOTO OF MATTHEW BRADY, FAMED CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHER AND NEW YORK STATE FARM BOY. 00:33:41 - PHOTO OF NATION'S CAPITAL, WASHINGTON, D.C. WITH UNPAVED DIRT STREETS AND HORSE DRAWN VEHICLES. 00:34:00 - MS- PHOTO OF "NEW" WHITE HOUSE WHICH REPLACED THE OLD ONE DESTROYED IN THE WAR OF 1812 00:34:12 - CU- EARLY PRINTS OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, MARTIN VAN BUREN AND ANDREW JACKSON, PRESIDENTS WHOSE FACES BECAME FAMILIAR BY THE WORK OF MATTHEW BRADY WHICH INCLUDED WORK OF OTHERS IN HIS COLLECTIONS. 00:34:33 - FACES OF EARLY WRITERS NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, EDGAR ALLEN POE, WASHINGTON IRVING & WALT WHITMAN; ALSO STATESMEN HENRY CLAY, JOHN CALHOUN, DANIEL WEBSTER 00:35:07 - LS- THE CAPITAL BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION BEFORE THE DOME WAS ERECTED. 00:35:25 - MS- PHOTO OF PRICE BIRCH AND COMPANY BUILDING, "DEALERS IN SLAVES". 00:35:30 - MONTAGE- PHOTOS BY BRADY OF LINCOLN AS A YOUNG CONGRESSMAN AND AS PRESIDENT. LINCOLN GAVE BRADY PERMISSION TO RECORD CIVIL WAR THE IN PHOTOGRAPHS 00:35:57 - LS- PHOTO OF VOLUNTEERS, WHO RESPONDED TO A CALL FROM LINCOLN, AT A RAILWAY STATION NEXT TO AN OLD TIME STEAM ENGINE 00:36:04 - LS- PHOTOS OF HASTILY CONSTRUCTED CAMPS WHICH SPRANG UP. LS- STOCKPILE OF CANNON AND OTHER WEAPONS AT A DEPOT, INCLUDING CANNON BALLS. 00:36:36 - LS- COVERED WAGONS ARE LINED UP BY THE HUNDREDS TO MOVE THE SUPPLIES WHEN NEEDED. 00:36:50 - CU- PHOTO OF THE NOW MIDDLE-AGED BRADY. PHOTO OF THE, "WHAT IS IT WAGON"? IS THE NAME OF THE PHOTO LAB THE SOLDIERS GAVE IT. 00:37:13 - MONTAGE- PHOTOS OF UNION SOLDIERS DOING DRILLS AND HOLLOW-SQUARE DEFENSE AGAINST CAVALRY ATTACK MS- UNION SOLDIERS SIT AROUND AND ENJOY A BREAK 00:38:05 - MONTAGE- PHOTOS OF WARSHIPS ON INLAND WATERS AND SAILORS POSING ON THE NEW ARMORED SHIPS THAT APPEARED AT THAT TIME. SAILORS POSE NEXT TO THEIR CANNON 00:39:00 - MS- A TELEGRAPH CORP WAGON. THE NEW COMMUNICATION NETWORK. LS- AN OBSERVER IN A BALLOON WITH ROPE BEING HELD BY SOLDIERS. 00:40:03 - MONTAGE- DESTROYED BUILDINGS IN CITIES SUCH AS RICHMOND, CHARLESTON AND FREDRICKSBURG. 00:40:32 - LS- PRISONERS OF WAR GATHER IN SUB-HUMAN CONDITIONS. WOUNDED LOITER ABOUT WITH THEIR CRUTCHES. A HUGE OPEN HOSPITAL WARD. 00:40:56 - MONTAGE- DEAD SCATTERED ON THE BATTLE GROUND SOME OF THE 483,000 AMERICAN DEAD 00:41:27 - MONTAGE- HOME OF THE SOLDIER IS A CRUDE LOG SHACK BUILT BY THE SOLDIERS THEMSELVES. 00:41:47 - MS- FAMILY AND FRIENDS VISIT THE SOLDIERS AT THE BATTLEFRONT AND POSE IN GROUPS. 00:42:00 - MONTAGE- PHOTOS OF GROUPS OF SOLDIERS SENT TO THEIR FAMILIES, SOME CLOWNING AROUND. 00:42:48 - MS- PHOTOS OF ROBERT E. LEE AND ULYSSES S. GRANT (SEPARATE). 00:43:00 - MONTAGE- BATTLEFIELD AT GETTYSBURG AND PARADE THERE AT END OF WAR. 00:43:29 - MONTAGE- PHOTOS OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH, FORD'S THEATER. LINCOLN'S BOX AT THE THEATER AND ACTRESS LAURA KEENE, THE LAST FACE LINCOLN SAW ON THAT TRAGIC DATE. 00:44:05 - MS- PHOTO OF DOCTOR LEO WHO EMERGED FROM THE THEATER CROWD TO ATTEND TO LINCOLN 00:44:35 - CU- PHOTO OF MATTHEW BRADY, EARLIEST OF OUR COMBAT PHOTOGRAPHERS, WHO LIVED TO 1896. 00:45:25 - CLARA BARTON - MONTAGE- DRAWINGS OF CIVIL WAR ACTION SCENES, INCLUDING PHOTOS OF DEAD SCATTERED ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE. 00:46:50 - CU- PORTRAITS OF LINCOLN AND ROBERT E. LEE. CU- PHOTO OF GENERAL POPE OF THE UNION WHO WAS OUT GENERALED AND OUT-MANEUVERED BY LEE AT BATTLE OF MANNASASS AND PHOTO OF UNION GENERAL MCCLELLAN 00:48:50 - MS- DRAWING OF CLARA BARTON CARING TO A WOUNDED SOLDIER. 00:49:13 - MS- REENACTMENT OF CLARA BARTON RIDING IN A WAGON OF SUPPLIES DRIVEN BY A UNION SERGEANT. THEY COME ACROSS A FIELD LITTERED WITH HUNDREDS OF DEAD AND WOUNDED UNION SOLDIERS. 00:50:41 - MS- BARTON ARRIVES AT FARM HOUSE WHOSE LAWN IS LITTERED WITH SOME OF 300 WOUNDED. 00:51:50 - MS- A SURGEON IS OPERATING ON A SOLDIER ON THE PORCH TABLE OF THE LITTLE HOUSE. BARTON OFFERS HIM HER SERVICES. HE SENDS A SOLDIER TO HELP HER UNLOAD HER SUPPLIES FROM THE WAGON. 00:52:33 - LS- BARTON WALKS WITH HER MEDICAL BAG AMID WOUNDED AND DEAD SOLDIERS IN THE FIELD. 00:52:43 - MS- BARTON STOPS TO GIVE A MAN A DRINK. WHILE HOLDING HIM A SHOT RINGS OUT GOES THROUGH HER SLEEVE AND KILLS THE WOUNDED SOLDIER IN HER ARMS. 00:53:30 - MS- BARTON COMES UPON SOLDIER LEANING AGAINST A FENCE A BULLET LODGED IN HIS CHEEK. SHE ATTEMPTS TO GO FOR HELP, BUT HE ASKS HER TO REMOVE IT. 00:54:00 - MS- A SERGEANT WITH BOTH LEGS DISABLED CRAWLS TOWARDS BARTON TO HELP HER HOLDING THE WOUNDED MAN'S HEAD IN HIS HANDS. BARTON SUCCEEDS IN REMOVING THE BULLET 00:55:52 - MS- BARTON COOKS CORN MEAL IN A BIG KETTLE POT IN LARGE FIREPLACE. BARTON FILLS A SOLDIERS PAIL WITH THE FOOD FROM WHICH HE FED THE OTHERS. 00:56:35 - MS- BARTON SCOOPS UP CORN MEAL FROM PAIL HELD BY SOLDIER AND FILLS A PLATE FOR A WOUNDED SOLDIER AND SPOON FEEDS HIM AND OTHERS 00:57:21 - MS- BARTON WALKS OVER AND TALKS TO THE TIRED BEARDED DOCTOR. HE SMILE WHEN BARTON SHOWS HIM A MUCH-NEEDED LANTERN SHE BROUGHT WITH HER. 00:57:45 - MS- BARTON HELPS THE DOCTOR OPERATE UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE LANTERN. 00:58:45 - MONTAGE- STATUES OF CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1917
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1910s
- File Name: VM-1125B