- Title: VM-1494
- Summary: THE OLD SOLDIER: DOCUMENTARY ON GENERAL MACARTHUR, HIS LIFE AND TIMES.
- Description:00:55:46 - GENERAL MACARTHUR WITH TRADEMARK LONG CORNCOB PIPE IN MOUTH ON WARSHIP. WALKS TOWARDS CAMERA. 00:55:52 - MONTAGE VARIOUS VIEWS MACARTHUR LEADS SOLDIERS THROUGH JUNGLE DURING ONE OF HIS FAMED ASSAULTS ON PACIFIC ISLANDS. 00:55:57 - MACARTHUR IN WINTER CLOTHING LEADS STAFF THROUGH ROUGH TERRAIN IN (KOREA?). 00:56:02 - MACARTHUR DEBARKING WARSHIP TO LAUNCH 00:56:06 - MACARTHUR BOARDING SHIP TOWARDS CAMERA. 00:56:09 - PHOTO MONTAGE 00:56:38 - WEST POINT CAMPUS GROUNDS. CADETS MARCHING 00:56:49 - CADETS MARCHING TO CLASSROOMS, IN CLASS. 00:56:54 - VARIOUS VIEWS STATUES & MONUMENTS AT WEST POINT 00:56:59 - ABOVE VIEW CADETS THROW HATS IN AIR ON GRADUATION DAY 00:57:09 - VARIOUS VIEWS CAVALRY TROOPS ON HORSEBACK RIDING ACROSS FIELD 00:57:21 - CU WHITE HOUSE CIRCA EARLY 1900s 00:57:27 - VINTAGE FOOTAGE TEDDY ROOSEVELT ADDRESSING CROWD OUTDOORS. 00:57:32 - LARGE COLUMNS CIVILIAN DRAFTEES MARCHING TO CAMP AFTER DRAFT STARTED FOR WWI 00:57:42 - VARIOUS VIEWS CIVILIAN MEN SIGNING UP & REPORTING TO CAMP 00:57:47 - VINTAGE FOOTAGE PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON STANDS BY FILE CABINETS WITH UPRIGHT PHONE, CIRCA EARLY 1900s 00:57:54 - COLONEL MACARTHUR EXAMINES MAP WITH OTHER OFFICERS OUTSIDE BARRACKS AS HE ORGANIZES THE FAMED 42ND RAINBOW DIVISION 00:57:59 - VARIOUS VIEWS "RAINBOW" DIVISION MARCHING ON ROADS, IN FIELDS & IN BATTLE DURING WWI. 00:58:00 - VINTAGE FOOTAGE WWI BATTLE SCENES INCLUDING HUGE CANNONS FIRING, SHELLS EXPLODING, TROOPS GOING "OVER THE TOP", RUNNING ACROSS FIELDS, UNDER FIRE. 00:58:17 - GENERAL "BLACK JACK" PERSHING PINNING DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL ON BRIGADIER GENERAL MACARTHUR'S CHEST. SHAKING HIS HAND AS OTHERS AWAIT SAME. 00:58:34 - BUILDINGS AT WEST POINT ACADEMY 00:58:48 - MACARTHUR ADDRESSES GRADUATING CLASS. INSPIRES GRADUATING CLASS WITH HIS OWN CREDO: (NATURAL SOUND) "YOUNG COMRADES IN ARMS, HAPPY LANDING AND GOD BE WITH YOU". 00:59:28 - MACARTHUR TAKING OATH AS CHIEF OF STAFF IN 1930. 00:59:39 - VINTAGE FOOTAGE VARIOUS SCENES MACARTHUR IN FIELD WITH FRENCH GENERALS 00:59:44 - MACARTHUR WITH CIGARETTE IN MOUTH ON LONG HOLDER PERUSES MAP WITH FRENCH GENERALS 00:59:58 - MONTAGE VINTAGE FOOTAGE MEN ON BREAD LINES DURING DEPRESSION TIME 01:00:03 - CROWD OF MEN READ WANTED SIGNS POSTED ON BULLETIN BOARD NEXT TO ELECTRICAL SUPPLY STORE. 01:00:11 - VINTAGE FOOTAGE THOUSANDS OF VETERANS OF WWI MARCH ON WASHINGTON, D.C. FOR BONUS THEY WERE PROMISED. BONUS MARCH 01:00:31 - ABOVE VIEW CONGRESSMEN DEBATING BONUS BILL IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 01:00:34 - PRESIDENT HOOVER SPEAKING TO CAMERA (MOS) 01:00:38 - GENERAL MACARTHUR AT DESK GIVES ORDERS TO OFFICER TO CLEAR BONUS ARMY CAMP 01:00:43 - SOLDIERS CONFRONTING MARCHERS IN WASHINGTON D.C. STREETS. 01:00:48 - CU GRIM GENERAL MACARTHUR SEATED AT DESK 01:00:53 - VARIOUS VIEWS SHANTY TOWN SHACKS THAT WERE BUILT BY VETERANS DURING BONUS MARCH BURNING DOWN AS ORDERED BY PRESIDENT 01:01:04 - CU MACARTHUR IN 1935 AS ADVISOR TO PHILIPPINE'S MANUEL QUEZON 01:01:09 - QUEZON AT DESK SIGNING DOCUMENTS AS OFFICIALS GATHER AROUND HIM. 01:01:17 - QUEZON SHAKES WITH GENERAL MACARTHUR. 01:01:22 - PHILIPPINE SOLDIERS DOING DRILLS, MARCHING. 01:01:39 - AERIAL VIEW ISLAND OF BATAAN. 01:01:44 - CU GENERAL MACARTHUR POSING IN 1941 01:01:47 - JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS BRIMMING WITH FIGHTER- BOMBERS TAKING OFF FOR ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR 01:02:01 - JAPANESE BOMBERS DROPPING TORPEDOES, BOMBS ON PEARL HARBOR. WARSHIPS BEING HIT BY BOMBS. HUGE EXPLOSIONS, HEAVY SMOKE, SINKING WARSHIPS 01:02:29 - JAPANESE SOLDIERS LANDING IN PHILIPPINES ATTACKING U.S. POSITIONS IN PHILIPPINES, BATAAN. 01:02:47 - CAPTURED U.S. SOLDIERS WITH HANDS UP. SURRENDER OF BATAAN. 01:02:52 - GENERAL WAINWRIGHT SURRENDERS TO JAPANESE. 01:03:08 - TRAIN PULLING INTO STATION IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA AS CROWDS OF NEWSMEN & PEOPLE WAIT TO GET GLIMPSE 01:03:13 - MACARTHUR & WIFE EXIT TRAIN, POSE. 01:03:37 - HUGE AUSTRALIAN CROWD TRYING TO GET GLIMPSE OF MACARTHUR WITH WIFE AND SON. 01:03:47 - MACARTHUR WITH OTHER MILITARY EXIT STATION TO LIMO. 01:04:02 - MACARTHUR MAKES HIS "I WILL RETURN" SPEECH AT AUSTRALIAN BANQUET 01:04:32 - NIGHT TIME BOMBARDMENT BY ALLIED WARSHIPS 01:04:37 - LANDING CRAFT HEADING FOR SHORE AS ISLAND HOPPING BEGINS. 01:04:57 - VARIOUS BATTLE SCENES ON PACIFIC JUNGLE ISLANDS. SCENES PARATROOPS LANDING, MACARTHUR WITH TAIL GUNNER IN BOMBER, FLAME THROWERS 01:05:11 - MACARTHUR FOLLOWED BY GIS CLIMBS THROUGH JUNGLE BRUSH TO GET FIRSTHAND LOOK. 01:05:15 - MACARTHUR HOLDING GI BY SHOULDERS AS HE TALKS TO HIM. 01:05:35 - MONTAGE BATTLE SCENES, MEN STORMING ISLAND SHORES. 01:05:45 - MARINES RAISE FLAG ON MOUNT SURABACHI IN IWO JIMA. 01:05:53 - CONTINUOUS BATTERIES OF ROCKETS FIRE FROM ROCKET- LAUNCHING SHIP. 01:05:58 - TRACER ROUNDS FILL SKY. 01:06:03 - DEBRIS FALLING INTO SEA AS WARSHIPS FIRE AT KAMIKAZE PLANES. 01:06:05 - PLANE CRASHING INTO SEA. 01:06:10 - MOTORCADE WITH MACARTHUR & FDR RIDE THROUGH LONG LINES AS SOLDIERS & SAILORS LINE ROAD. CROWDS OF WOUNDED VETERANS WATCH. FDR & MACARTHUR MEET TO PLAN PHILIPPINE STRATEGY, 01:06:32 - MACARTHUR USES POINTER TO SHOW STRATEGY ON WALL MAP TO FDR & ADMIRAL NINITZ, 01:06:42 - ARMADA OF WARSHIPS AS TROOPS SPEED TO PHILIPPINES 01:06:56 - MACARTHUR ON WARSHIP WITH CORN COB PIPE IN MOUTH. MACARTHUR AND OTHER OFFICERS WATCH BOMBARDMENT WITH COTTON IN THEIR EARS. 01:07:10 - VARIOUS VIEWS WARSHIPS BOMBARDING PHILIPPINES. 01:07:22 - U.S. TROOPS WADING TO LEYTE SHORE (10/20/44) GENERAL MACARTHUR FOLLOWED BY GENERAL STAFF & SOLDIERS WADES INTO SHORE O PHILIPPINES 01:07:49 - PEOPLE RUN JUBILANTLY INTO STREET. CHURCH BELLS RING. 01:07:54 - MACARTHUR SPEAKS AS MEDIA CORRESPONDENTS WATCH. SPEECH: "HAVE YOUR TROOPS HOIST THE COLORS TO ITS PEAK AND LET NO ENEMY HAUL THEM DOWN" 01:08:18 - MACARTHUR STANDS AT ATTENTION AS GIS RAISE FLAG. 01:08:23 - BATTLESHIP MISSOURI IN TOKYO HARBOR WHERE JAPANESE SURRENDERED. 01:08:28 - MACARTHUR ARRIVES ON BOARD FOR SIGNING CEREMONIES. GREETED BY ADMIRAL NIMITZ. 01:08:33 - ABOVE VIEW JAPANESE DELEGATION. 01:08:38 - CU MACARTHUR WALKS TO MICROPHONE & MAKES SPEECH 01:09:23 - JAPANESE, MACARTHUR & GENERAL WAINWRIGHT SIGNING TREATY 01:10:19 - GENERAL MACARTHUR WALKS FROM OFFICE BUILDING IN TOKYO TO HIS LIMO AS CROWD OF JAPANESE WATCH FROM BEHIND POLICE BARRICADES. 01:10:21 - JAPANESE PEOPLE ON LONG VOTING LINES AS FREE ELECTIONS ARE INSTITUTED BY MACARTHUR. 01:10:31 - VARIOUS VIEWS JAPANESE PEOPLE IN ETHNIC COSTUME CASTING BALLOTS. 01:10:40 - MACARTHUR INSPECTING TROOPS IN JAPAN. 01:11:04 - MACARTHUR WAVES HIS HAT TO CROWD OF JAPANESE ON-LOOKERS AS HE EXITS HIS OFFICE BUILDING ON HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY IN 1950. WAITS PATIENTLY AT LIMO. 01:11:10 - CU PAN HUNDREDS OF JAPANESE CHILDREN WAVING U.S. FLAGS & SINGING "HAPPY BIRTHDAY 01:11:37 - AERIAL VIEW ARTILLERY UNITS FIRING AS NORTH KOREA INVADES SOUTH KOREA. VARIOUS BATTLE SCENES IN KOREA. 01:11:58 - AMERICAN TROOPS LANDING AT INCHON NORTH KOREA AS GENERAL MACARTHUR LAUNCHES INVASION 01:12:05 - MACARTHUR RIDING IN JEEP ON KOREAN FRONT. 01:12:10 - HUGE CROWD IN SEOUL AFTER BEING LIBERATED FROM NORTH KOREAN TROOPS WAVE 01:12:17 - MACARTHUR & SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT SIGHMUND RHEE WALK DOWN STEPS OF CAPITAL BUILDING IN SEOUL FOLLOWED BY OTHER MILITARY. 01:12:56 - VARIOUS SCENES U.S. TROOPS ALONG MANCHURIAN BORDER. 01:13:06 - MACARTHUR & GENERALS IN HEAVY WINTER GEAR LOOK OVER YALU RIVER TO MANCHURIA 01:13:16 - MACARTHUR IN HEAVY WINTER WEAR INSPECTS TROOPS ALONG YALU RIVER. PINS MEDAL ON ONE. 01:13:29 - MACARTHUR MEETS PRESIDENT TRUMAN AT PLANE IN WAKE ISLAND. 01:13:34 - BEVY NEWSMEN, PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKE SHOTS. 01:13:39 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN PINS MEDAL ON MACARTHUR. 01:13:47 - VARIOUS VIEWS MANCHURIA AS SEEN FROM ACROSS YALU BY U.S. SOLDIERS MANNING GUN POSITIONS. 01:13:53 - MACARTHUR LOOKING ACROSS YALU. 01:14:03 - CHINESE HORDES MARCHING SUPERIMPOSED OVER BORDER BETWEEN MANCHURIA & NORTH KOREA AS THEY ATTACK UNITED NATIONS POSITIONS WITHOUT WARNING 01:14:06 - VARIOUS VIEWS U.S. SOLDIERS IN RETREAT ACROSS SNOW-COVERED TERRAIN 01:14:16 - B-29 DROPPING ITS BOMBS ON CHINESE POSITIONS. 01:14:21 - AERIAL VIEWS BOMBS EXPLODING ON GROUND 01:14:40 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINES: "MACARTHUR FIRED! RETURNING HOME!"; "PRESIDENT OUSTS GENERAL MACARTHUR"; "RIDGEWAY IS NAMED COMMANDER"; "MACARTHUR FIRED BY TRUMAN"; "MACARTHUR HOME IN THREE WEEKS"; "MAC IS OUT". 01:14:47 - CU PRESIDENT TRUMAN SPEAKS. TELLS WHY HE FIRED MACARTHUR. 01:15:24 - MACARTHUR ARRIVES AT AIRPORT WITH WIFE & SON. BOARDS PLANE FOR HOME. 01:15:43 - HUGE SHOWER OF CONFETTI, TICKERTAPE FALLS DOWN ON MACARTHUR MOTORCADE FROM SKYSCRAPERS IN SAN FRANCISCO. MACARTHUR IN OPEN LIMO. WIFE & SON IN ANOTHER. 01:15:58 - VARIOUS VIEWS MASSIVE SHOWER OF TICKER TAPE FALLING ON MOTORCADE IN NEW YORK CITY. INUNDATES MOTORCADE & CROWDS. 01:16:29 - MACARTHUR SPEAKS AT BANQUET. TELLS JOKE ABOUT MRS. MACARTHUR. SAYS HE MOST METICULOUSLY OBEYS HIS COMMANDER IN CHIEF (HIS WIFE). 01:17:08 - ABOVE VIEW MACARTHUR IS APPLAUDED BY CONGRESS AT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BEFORE MAKING ADDRESS TO JOINT HOUSES OF CONGRESS. 01:17:14 - MACARTHUR MAKES FAMED SPEECH WITH PHRASE "OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE. THEY JUST FADE AWAY". 01:18:10 - MANAGER OF NEW YORK GIANTS LEO DUROCHER SHAKES HANDS WITH MACARTHUR FROM HIS SEAT IN STANDS 01:19:14 - MACARTHUR IN BUSINESS SUIT AND HOMBERG HAT WAVES FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS. 01:19:22 - MACARTHUR EXITS HOME. POSES WITH PRESIDENT IKE AFTER MEETING, JOHN FOSTER DULLES IN BKGD 01:19:35 - MACARTHUR MEETS WITH PRESIDENT JFK AT WHITE HOUSE. KENNEDY SITS IN FAMED ROCKER. 01:20:17 - MACARTHUR VISITS WEST POINT. IS GIVEN AWARD, CADETS PARADE. MACARTHUR SPEAKS TO CADETS IN FEEBLE VOICE, "I BID YOU FAREWELL". 01:20:58 - MACARTHUR'S FAMOUS WAR HAT AND OTHER ITEMS HANG ON
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1900
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1900s
- File Name: VM-1494