- Title: VM-1175B
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:59:54 - CO-PILOT OF LIGHT-PLANE PEERS THROUGH BINOCULARS AT RED POSITIONS. 01:00:00 - GUN CREWS FIRE LARGE HOWITZER AT RED POSITIONS RADIOED DOWN TO THEM BY LIGHT PLANE. 01:00:54 - ARMY NARRATOR STANDS BY A L-4 LIGHTPLANE & TELLS THE STORY OF ARMY AVIATION 01:01:21 - PAN OF WIDE VARIETY OF AIRCRAFT USED BY ARMY. AERIAL PAN ALL SORTS OF HELICOPTERS, LIGHT PLANES AND OTHER SMALL CRAFT ARE LAYED OUT IN CIRCLE ON AN AIRFIELD. 01:02:24 - ARMY INSIGNIA OF ALL 16 DIVISIONS OF THE ARMY 01:03:00 - CU CLOSE UP AND LONG SHOT OF ARMY GI IN FULL COMBAT GEAR. 01:04:04 - LARGE TRANSPORT PLANE TAKES OFF AFTER PICKING UP PLATOON OF SOLDIERS AS ARMY MOBILITY IS SHOWN. 01:04:27 - PARATROOPS FLOAT TO GROUND DURING EXERCISE. FOOT SOLDIERS CLIMBING HILLS, WADING THROUGH STREAMS, WALKING THROUGH DEEP MUD 01:05:05 - MONTAGE CLOSE UP LOOK AT THE VARIOUS TYPES OF SMALL PLANES, BIG AND SMALL HELICOPTERS, DESIGNED FOR FOOT SOLDIERS NEEDS TO ACHIEVE MOBILITY. 01:06:06 - AERIAL HELICOPTER FLIES ACROSS RIVER JUST INCHES ABOVE WATER. 01:06:35 - HELICOPTER SPEEDS JUST INCHES ABOVE DIRT ROAD MAKES SHARP TURNS AS THE ROAD TURNS, AS SEEN FROM PILOT'S SEAT. SEEMS LIKE DRIVING IN A CAR. 01:06:50 - SQUADRON OF HELICOPTERS FLY JUST ABOVE TREE TOPS OVER JUNGLE. 01:07:03 - MONTAGE HELICOPTERS HOVER JUST ABOVE TREE TOPS. SOLDIERS CLIMB DOWN INTO JUNGLE ON ROPES. 01:08:00 - MONTAGE SQUADRON OF HELICOPTERS LAND IN JUNGLE CLEARING, DISCHARGE SOLDIERS WHO RUN INTO THICK JUNGLE. 01:09:11 - HELICOPTER HOVERS OVER GROUND AND SPINS IN PLACE TO DEMONSTRATE ITS MOBILITY. IT THEN SWAYS FROM SIDE TO SIDE. 01:09:43 - HELICOPTER ZOOMS STRAIGHT UP, AS SEEN FROM UNDER IT. 01:10:10 - HELICOPTER COMES IN VIEW AS IT RISES ABOVE HILL THEN DISAPPEARS BEHIND HILL IN SHOW OF MANEUVERABILITY. 01:10:18 - AERIAL LARGE HELICOPTER LANDS ON SMALL RAFT IN MIDDLE OF RIVER. 01:10:55 - LARGE HELICOPTER UNLOADS AN ENTIRE INFANTRY SQUAD INTO BATTLE AREA. 01:11:06 - MEDICS ATTEND WOUNDED SOLDIER, CARRY HIM TO RED CROSS HELICOPTER FOR EVACUATION. GI GUIDES MEDICAL HELICOPTER IN WITH HAND MOTIONS. 01:12:27 - HUGE HELICOPTER TAKES ON FULL COMBAT PLATOON & A JEEP. 01:13:10 - EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE HELICOPTER LANDS & COMPONENTS OF HUGE "PERSHING" MISSILE ARE UNLOADED. HUGE MISSILE IS ERECTED AND READIED FOR ACTION. 01:13:48 - HELICOPTER CARRIES HOWITZER CANNON WITH SLING, DELIVERING IT TO GIS IN THE FIELD. 01:14:50 - MONTAGE GUN CREWS FIRE VOLLEYS OF SHELLS FROM THE HOWITZER. BALLISTIC MISSILE IS FIRED. 01:15:34 - HELICOPTERS SPEED ALONG AND FIRE ROCKETS & MACHINE GUNS INTO JUNGLE. LARGE AREA OF GROUND EXPLODES AS ROCKETS AND BULLETS HIT. 01:16:27 - MONTAGE ARMY PLANES LAND IN SMALL AREAS OF FIELD, AND USE EXTREMELY SMALL TAKE-OFF AREAS. 01:17:30 - CU CAMERA IN BELLY OF PLANE IS ACTIVATED & PHOTO OF GROUND AREA IS TAKEN. PLANE LANDS, GI RUNS OUT, TAKES OUT CAMERA AND THE PLANE TAKES OFF. CU AERIAL PHOTO OF GROUND IS DEVELOPED. 01:19:32 - MONTAGE ARMY PLANE SCREAMS ALONG TREE TOPS, ZOOMS INCHES ABOVE RIVER AND GROUND AT HIGH SPEEDS, IN A SPECTACULAR SHOW. 01:20:29 - INSTRUCTOR GESTURES WITH HANDS FOR TRAINEE TO LIFT OFF WITH HELICOPTER. 01:20:47 - BLACK AND WHITE TRAINEES STAND AT TABLE & STUDY MATERIAL AT TRAINING INSTALLATION. 01:21:37 - TRAINEES WATCH AN INSTRUCTOR IN COCKPIT OF PLANE SHOWING THEM CONTROLS. TRAINEE WEARS EARPHONES AS HE SITS AT CONTROLS OF SIMULATED COCKPIT INSIDE SCHOOL. 01:23:04 - MONTAGE INSTRUCTORS ADVISE VIETNAMESE & U.S. PILOTS PRIOR TO A MISSION OVER VIETNAM. VIETNAMESE AND U. S. TROOPS BOARD THE HELICOPTERS. 01:24:50 - MONTAGE ARMY AVIATION SONG IS HEARD AS FILM SHOWS MANY TYPES OF AIRCRAFT AND HELICOPTERS TAKING OFF. 01:25:08 - AERIAL PAN HUNDREDS OF HELICOPTERS OF DIFFERENT TYPES AND IN NEAT LINES AND ROTORS GOING, READY FOR TAKE OFF FROM AIRFIELD. ALL OF THEM SLOWLY TAKE OFF. TILL END OF SONG.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1963
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-1175B