- Title: VM-1176A
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:01:32 - "EOD (EXPLOSIVE ORDINANCE DISPOSAL)" CAMERA FOLLOWS AN ARMY CAPTAIN WHO ATTENDS SCHOOL FOR BOMB DISPOSAL, A HIGHLY DANGEROUS JOB. 00:01:33 - MONTAGE 1960s SUBURBIA. PAN OF A QUIET MIDDLE CLASS SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD WITH ITS NEAT SPLIT LEVEL AND RANCH HOMES, ALL ABANDONED. AN UNEXPLODED NUCLEAR BOMB LIES IN THEIR MIDST. 00:01:54 - CLOTHING HANGS FROM A CLOTHES LINE. AN ABANDONED BACKYARD SWING & SEESAW SET, PAN TO RAG DOLL ON GROUND. CURTAIN BLOWS THROUGH OPEN WINDOW. AN IRON SITS ON IRONING BOARD, A RED TELEPHONE RINGS WITH NO ONE ANSWERING. 00:02:38 - HOLE IN GROUND WHERE NUCLEAR BOMB FAILED TO EXPLODE 00:03:20 - TWO ARMY ORDINANCE EXPERTS ARE HELPED TO DON PROTECTIVE COVERALLS AND HEAD COVERS, PRIOR TO GOING INTO THE DANGER AREA. LOOKING GROTESQUE IN THEIR ODD OUTFITS, THEY WALK OFF CARRYING GEIGER COUNTER AND TOOLS. THEY CLIMB DOWN INTO HOLE 00:05:11 - CU LIT CANDLE SITS NEXT TO CLAY PAN IN ANCIENT EXPERIMENT. CU HAND POURS GUN POWDER FROM PAPER HOLDER INTO DISH. THE POWDER IS LIT AND IT FLASHES UP. 00:05:35 - CU HAND PLACES FIRECRACKER IN DISH, FUSE IS LIT AND IT EXPLODES INTO BITS OF PAPER. ANOTHER FIRECRACKER FUSE FAILS TO EXPLODE SHOWING UNRELIABILITY AND DANGER OF UNEXPLODED UNIT. 00:06:53 - AERIAL BOMBS RAINING DOWN ON LONDON DURING WWII, THOUSANDS FAILED TO EXPLODE OR HAD DELAYED ACTION FUSES. BOMB SQUADS WORK IN LONDON DEBRIS TRYING TO EXTRACT UNEXPLODED BOMBS. 00:07:39 - WORKER CARRIES HUGE UNEXPLODED BOMB FROM DEBRIS. 00:08:20 - NARRATOR READS FORM A SOLDIER HAS TO SIGN BEFORE BEING A MEMBER OF "EOD". 00:09:24 - MILITARY MEN OF ALL RANKS WALK INTO BUILDING WHOSE DOOR IS MARKED "EXPLOSIVE ORDINANCE DISPOSAL SCHOOL". 00:09:54 - EXPLOSIVE DEVISES SUCH AS SHELLS, ROCKETS, MISSILES OF ALL SIZES AND SHAPES, SIT ON SHELF IN ROOM AT SCHOOL. AN OFFICER AND NEW RECRUIT AT THE SCHOOL TAKES A LOOK. 00:10:16 - CU 2 HAND GRENADES, MORTAR SHELLS AND LAND MINE 00:10:48 - STUDENTS TAKE NOTES IN CLASSROOM AS TEACHER SHOWS THEM BUSINESS END OF ROCKET. CU TEACHER'S HAND POINTS TO DETONATOR. 00:11:52 - TEACHER AND 6 STUDENTS WALK TO SECTION OF SCHOOL YARD WITH VARIETY OF AMMO ROUNDS LAYING ON GROUND, EACH MARKETED WITH A NUMBER, AND ASKS EACH STUDENT TO IDENTIFY THE ROUND. 00:13:06 - CAMERA PANS BARREN AREA AT THE SCHOOL, UNTIL IT COMES UPON A HUGE BOMB LAYING IN THE OPEN FIELD. FOR KNOWN OR UNKNOWN REASONS IT FAILED TO DETONATE 00:13:56 - CU STUDENT TAPES PLASTIC EXPLOSIVE TO BOMB & ATTACHES FUSE TO IT. HUGE EXPLOSION AS BOMB IS DETONATED. 00:14:38 - TWO GI STUDENTS DIG HOLE WITH SHOVELS TO EXCAVATE BOMB AS 3 OTHERS WATCH. STUDENT CLIMBS LADDER INTO HOLE AND CAUTIOUSLY EXAMINES THE HALF-BURIED BOMB. 00:17:11 - HEADQUARTERS OF U.S. ARMY MUNITIONS COMMAND. HUGE SMOKE CLOUD FOLLOWS LAUNCHING OF MISSILE. 00:17:43 - YOUNG CIVILIAN DRAFTSMEN WORK AT THEIR TABLES 00:18:30 - JEEP PULLS UP TO AN EOD OFFICER WALKING FROM A BUILDING, AND HAS HIM SIGN A FORM. 00:19:30 - EOD OFFICER WEARING HEADPHONE AND SPEAKING ON MIKE CHECKS OUT RENDER-SAFE EQUIPMENT ON TABLE. CU PAN OF THE RENDER-SAFE MATERIALS. 00:19:57 - EOD OFFICER GIVES CLASSES ON EOR, EXPLOSIVE ORDINANCE RECONNAISSANCE, USING VISUAL AIDS, TO LOCAL POLICEMEN AND GIS, TEACHING THEM TO EVALUATE AND IDENTIFY UNEXPLODED ORDINANCE 00:20:31 - THREE EOD EXPERTS IN PROTECTIVE UNIFORMS BURNS HIGHLY VOLATILE ROCKET FUEL ON BEACH. FEROCIOUS FIRE AND BLACK SMOKE RESULTS. 00:21:36 - CU TELEPHONE RINGS AND HAND OF EOD TECHNICIAN PICKS IT UP. 00:22:00 - GROUP OF CHILDREN PLAYING IN PLAYGROUND. 2 LITTLE BOYS PLAYINGLY WRESTLE OVER A "TOY" BOMB, WHICH IS REALLY 37MM WWI SHELL. 00:22:33 - CU SHELL WITH TINY HOLE WHERE EOD MAN REMOVED GUN POWDER, RENDERING THE SHELL HARMLESS. NARRATOR READS OFF LIST OF TYPES OF LIVE AMMO FOUND IN NURSING HOMES, HOUSING PROJECTS AND OTHER UNLIKELY AREAS. 00:23:41 - CU NARRATOR HOLDS UP CIVIL WAR CANNON BALL ON DISPLAY AT FEDERAL HALL NATIONAL MEMORIAL ON WALL STREET WHICH STILL CONTAINED BLACK POWDER BEFORE IT WAS RENDERED HARMLESS. 00:23:50 - TABLE LOADED WITH HUGE QUANTITY OF ORDINANCE REMOVED BY ONLY 1 EOD UNIT IN COURSE OF 1 YEAR OF OPERATION, 863 ITEMS. 00:25:05 - INSIGNIA WORN BY SOLDIERS OF ARMY EXPLOSIVE ORDINANCE DISPOSAL. EOD. 00:26:16 - TWO EOD TECHNICIANS WEARING PROTECTIVE CLOTHING WALK OUT OF A RED SMOKE CLOUD. 00:26:30 - CU UNEXPLODED BOMB LIES HALF-BURIED IN GROUND UNDER BRIDGE AND IS APPROACHED CAUTIOUSLY BY EOD SOLDIER. HIS PARTNER GOES FOR TOOLS, AS HE BEGINS TO DISARM BOMB. 00:28:29 - COLUMN OF JEEPS WAIT AT DISTANCE FROM BRIDGE AS EOD OFFICER WORKS. CU EOD OFFICER'S SWEATING FACE AS HE WORKS. 00:29:14 - BOMB IS LIFTED FROM UNDER BRIDGE AFTER EOD OFFICER RENDERED IT HARMLESS. ARMY CONVOY PROCEEDS OVER BRIDGE.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1914
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1910s
- File Name: VM-1176A