- Title: VM-1173B
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:31:20 - "ALL THE WORD TO ALL THE TROOPS" DESCRIBES THE FUNCTIONS & ACTIVITIES OF "STARS & STRIPES" NEWSPAPER AND THE AMERICAN FORCES RADIO & TELEVISION SERVICE, WHICH KEEP TROOPS OVERSEAS INFORMED IN MATTERS AT HOME & ABROAD. THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN SERVICEMAN'S NEWSPAPER WHICH DATES BACK TO THE CIVIL WAR. 00:31:25 - TECHNICIAN ADJUSTS HIS RADIO EQUIPMENT AS HE LISTENS TO WEATHER REPORT OVER HIS EARPHONES. TAPE RECORDER PLAYING AS WEATHERMAN IS HEARD TALKING ABOUT TROPICAL STORM "DORIA" 00:31:37 - NEWS PRESS SHOOTS OUT ADDITIONS OF THE "STARS & STRIPES" NEWSPAPER. MEN AT PRESSES READ THE ADDITION AS IT ROLLS BY. 00:31:48 - STARS & STRIPES HEADLINE HAS STORY ABOUT NIXON. TRUCK PULLS OUT OF PLANT WITH PAPERS. 00:32:12 - TWO GIS SITTING ON THEIR BUNKS IN A TENT. ONE SHAVES AS THE OTHER JUST LISTENS TO PROGRAM ON A PORTABLE RADIO. 00:32:21 - BLACK GI RADIO ANNOUNCER BROADCASTS TO GIS ON AMERICAN FORCES RADIO IN A MOBILE VAN. 00:32:34 - GI SITS IN RECREATION ROOM SIPPING COFFEE & WATCHING TV 00:32:53 - NEWSPAPER MEN BUSY AT THEIR DESKS. 00:32:57 - GI SPECIALISTS WEARING HEAD PHONES, SIT AT TV MONITORS. TITLE: "ALL THE WORD, TO ALL THE TROOPS" 00:33:23 - GIS BUY "STARS AND STRIPES" NEWSPAPERS AT BOOK STORE. GI PERUSES THE PAPER AT MAGAZINE RACK 00:33:41 - GI ATOP HIS TANK TURRET READS THE NEWSPAPER. 00:33:56 - SIGN AT ENTRANCE TO BUILDING, "STARS AND STRIPES, EUROPEAN ADDITION", IN DAHNSTAT, GERMANY WHERE 140,000 COPIES OF THE PAPER ARE PRINTED EVERYDAY AT THE FORMER LUFTWAFFE AIRFIELD. 00:34:11 - TRUCKER LOADS STACKS OF THE NEWSPAPER ONTO HIS TRUCK FROM THE FREIGHT PLATFORM, THEN DRIVES OFF. 00:34:50 - MONTAGE BLACK AND WHITE SOLDIERS PERUSE MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS AT ONE OF THE MANY NEWSSTANDS OPERATED BY MILITARY, AT BASES. PAN 00:35:11 - MONTAGE DRAWINGS OF CIVIL WAR BATTLE SCENES. "STARS AND STRIPES" DATES BACK TO THAT WAR. CU 1ST ISSUE, WHICH WAS PRINTED ON A CAPTURED PRESS. DATED NOVEMBER 9, 1961 00:35:25 - DOUGHBOYS WALK DOWN RAMP OF TROOPSHIP ON THEIR ARRIVAL IN FRANCE IN WWI. MONTAGE DOUGHBOYS TRAIN WITH BAYONETS. 00:35:34 - GENERAL PERSHING APPEARS IN A STARS & STRIPES ADDITION IN WWI WHEN IT WAS BORN AS FULL-SIZE NEWSPAPER IN WWI AND BLESSED BY PERSHING. 00:35:42 - GENERAL PERSHING SHAKES THE HANDS OF HIS OFFICERS AT THE FRONT. 00:36:08 - FACE OF FDR APPEARS IN "STARS AND STRIPES" LONDON ADDITION 00:36:24 - ADDITION OF PACIFIC "STARS AND STRIPES" APPEARS 1 WEEK AFTER WAR IN EUROPE ENDS. MONTAGE VARIOUS HEADLINES OF THAT DAY, INCLUDING "20,000 TON ATOM BOMB DROPPED ON BIG JAPANESE BASE". 00:36:57 - CU STARS AND STRIPES HEADLINE: "PEACE". 00:37:05 - MONTAGE BUSTLING CIVILIAN AND AUTO TRAFFIC IN TOKYO AFTER WAR'S END. 00:37:23 - MODERN 4-STORY "STARS AND STRIPES" PLANT IN TOKYO TURNS OUT 200,000 COPIES OF THE SOLDIERS NEWSPAPER DAILY. 00:37:35 - SOME 60 MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL STAFF BUSY AT THEIR DESKS. CU FINGERS OF REPORTER TYPES AT EXTRAORDINARY SPEED. 00:38:19 - ONE OF THE GI EDITORS GOES THROUGH THE PAGES OF THE DAILY. NAVAL EDITOR SETS UP PIN-UP PHOTOS FOR THE COLOR SECTION. 00:39:40 - JAPANESE WORKERS AT THE PLANT STACK UP & WRAPS UP ADDITIONS FOR SHIPMENT. STACKS ARE ROLLED OUT ON CONVEYORS TO WAITING TRUCKS 00:40:44 - MONTAGE WORKERS STACK THE NEWSPAPERS IN CARGO JET LINER AND DELIVER TO THE LONGEST NEWSPAPER ROUTE IN THE WORLD COVERING OVER 3 1/4 MILLION MILES PACIFIC OCEAN AREA. 00:41:12 - TRUCK REACHES A LONELY AMERICAN OUTPOST IN KOREA WITH THE DAILY ADDITION OF THE NEWSPAPER. AS GIS ARE ISSUED CHOW CAFETERIA STYLE, A KOREAN ISSUES A COPY OF "STARS AND STRIPES" 00:41:45 - GI EATS AND READS IN THE CHOW HALL. 00:41:56 - SHIRTLESS GI SITS ON HIS TANK AND WRITES HOME AS HE LISTENS TO A PORTABLE RADIO. 00:42:16 - GI SITS ON A PARK BENCH AT AN ISOLATED BEACH IN KOREA AND LISTENS TO HIS PORTABLE RADIO 00:42:29 - AERIAL A MOBILE RADIO STATION SITS IN A REMOTE AREA NEAR A ROAD. PORTABLE GENERATORS IN WOODEN SHACKS POWER THE STATIONS. 00:42:59 - GI WEARING EARPHONES BROADCASTS AS HE READS FROM A SCRIPT AND PLAYS RECORDS. 00:43:35 - GI COOKS PREPARE DINNER AS THEY LISTEN TO THE NEWS ON RADIO. GI SHAVES IN THE WASHROOM & LISTENS TO A PORTABLE RADIO. 00:44:00 - AN AMERICAN PATROL LYING IN THE JUNGLE FLOOR IN VIETNAM AWAKES FROM A SNOOZE, TO RADIO MUSIC. 00:44:23 - GI CLIMBS TO TOP OF HUGE ANTENNA ON AN ISLAND OFF SOUTH VIETNAM. 00:45:21 - CIVILIAN WORKER READS LONG STRIPS OF TICKER TAPE AT THE WASHINGTON FACILITY OF AFRTS, AMERICAN FORCES RADIO AND TV STATIONS AS A GI TYPES ON TELETYPE MACHINE. 00:46:11 - CIVILIAN WORKER RECORDS AND EDITS NEWS & SPECIAL EVENTS ON A NUMBER OF TAPE RECORDERS ON LONG TABLE 00:47:06 - TWO YOUNG BLACK WOMEN ENTER AN AFRTS BUILDING IN CALIFORNIA WHERE ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS ARE GATHERED FOR TV VIEWERS AND RADIO LISTENERS. 00:47:22 - WORKER STACKS TAPES AND FILM ON RACKS. 00:48:00 - GIS TAPE PRIME TIME VIDEO SHOWS RIGHT OFF THE AIR DELETING ALL COMMERCIALS. 00:48:27 - BLACK WORKER PACKS RECORD ALBUMS IN A BOX FOR SHIPMENT. 00:49:05 - TWO GI TECHNICIANS GIVE THE CUE TO BLACK FEMALE DISC JOCKEY BARBARA RANDOLPH. RANDOLPH SWAYS TO THE BEAT OF "JOY TO THE WORLD" BY 3 DOG NIGHT. 00:50:38 - ACTOR ROBERT STRAUSS DOES BROADCAST FOR AFRTS TELLING THE GI HOW TO GET AN EDUCATION IN THE ARMED SERVICES. 00:51:39 - CU AN EDITOR SPLICES A PIECE OF FILM 00:52:04 - MILITARY & CIVILIAN STAFF DISCUSS PROGRAM CHANGES. 00:53:00 - MONTAGE STAFF MEMBERS PREPARE PHOTO CLIPS AND EDITED MOVIE CLIPS FOR THE EVENING NEWS. 00:53:35 - TV CAMERA ROLLS CLOSER TO GI NEWS ANCHORS AT TV STATION FOR THE NIGHTLY NEWS BROADCAST 00:54:36 - COMPOSER AND SINGER OF FOLK MUSIC SINGS & STRUTS ON HIS GUITAR. 00:54:50 - TRAINER OF MILITARY DOGS SHOWS WHAT HAPPENS TO "ENEMY" AGENTS TRYING TO PENETRATE BASES IN DARK. THE DOG ATTACKS THE "AGENT" WHO WEARS A PROTECTIVE SUIT. 00:57:55 - SOLDIER READS A NEWSPAPER WHILE GETTING A HAIRCUT FROM KOREAN BARBER.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1917
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1910s
- File Name: VM-1173B