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PICTORIAL REPORT NO. 14
A VISIT TO WEST POINT FOR AN ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT
EISENHOWER. A LOOK AT "OPERATION ALERT" - AN
ANTI-AIRCRAFT UNIT IN GERMANY. A VISTI WITH THE
DAVY CROCKETT RIFLE CLUB AT FORT MYER, VIRGINIA.
NARRATOR TELLS THE STORY OF DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
FROM HIS WEST POINT GRADUATION TO HIS PRESIDENCY
00:33:31 36.67
MONTAGE- THE PARADE GROUNDS AT WEST POINT AND
CADETS MARCHIN DURING JUNE WEEK (GRADUATION WEEK).
00:34:07 72.67
GENERAL BRYAN INTRODUCES PRESIDENT EISENHOWER TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF JUNE 1955.
00:34:28 93.67
PRESIDENT IKE MAKES SPEECH.
CAMERA PANS THE DORM BUILDING AT WEST POINT THEN MOVES INTO THE ROOM OCCUPIED BY IKE DURING HIS YEARS AT THE ACADEMY.
00:35:32 157.67
CADETS AND THEIR GIRL FRIENDS WALK THE SHADED PATHS OF 'FLIRTATION WALK' & PASS 'KISSING ROCK'. A CADET KISSES HIS GIRL NEAR THE 'ROCK'.
00:35:53 178.67
HUNDREDS OF CADETS DANCE WITH THEIR GIRLS' AT THE 'HOT' IN COLUMN HALL.
00:35:59 184.67
BATTLE MONUMENT
CADETS ATTEND OUTDOOR RELIGIOUS SERVICES AT THE MONUMENT.
00:36:30 215.67
SUPERINTENDENT GREETS GRADUATING CADETS AT THE TRADITIONAL 'SUPERINTENDENT'S RECEPTION'.
00:36:44 229.67
MONTAGE GRADUATING CADETS PLAY THEIR LAST GAME OF LACROSSE ON THE PLAYING FIELD.
00:37:16 261.67
ARTILLERY FIRES A 21 GUN SALUTE TO PRESIDENT IKE AS HIS LIMO WITH PLASTIC BUBBLE ROOF PASSES
00:37:25 270.67
MEMBERS OF THE CORP SINCE THE TURN OF THECENTURY GATHER, ALONG WITH IKE, AT THE STATUE OFSILVANUS FAIR, FOUNDER OF THE ACADEMY, TO HONORTHEIR ALMA MATER.
CHOIR SINGS THE ALMA MATER.
(PAN FROM STATUE TO CHOIR).
00:38:24 329.67
96 YEAR OLD GENERAL HODGE PLACES WREATH ATSTATUE.
00:38:45 350.67
PRESIDENT IKE SPEAKS AT BANQUET AT HUGE HALL.
MONTAGE OLD TIMERS SIT AT THEIR DINNER TABLES AND LISTEN TO IKE.
00:39:18 383.67
HUNDREDS OF CADETS LOITER AROUND ON THE PARADE GROUNDS WAITING FOR CEREMONIES TO BEGIN.
00:39:23 388.67
MS- A PLEBE STICKS HIS HEAD FORWARD TO LISTEN TO
AN UPPER CLASSMAN THEN YANKS IT BACK CAUSING HIS
HAT TO ALMOST FALL OFF.
00:39:34 399.67
MONTAGE THOUSANDS OF CADETS MARCH IN FULL DRESS UNIFORMS TO HONOR THE GRADUATES
THE CADETS RUN OFF THE FIELD WHEN THE CEREMONIES ARE OVER.
00:41:54 539.67
CU PRESIDENT EISENHOWER ADDRESSES THE GRADUATES AND HANDS OUT DIPLOMAS.
MAMIE IS THERE.
00:44:59 724.67
NARRATOR QUEEN TELLS OF A TYPICAL COMBAT UNIT, THE
25TH ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTALION, DOING A PRACTICE
ALERT EXERCISE IN KAISERSLAGEN, GERMANY.
00:45:23 748.67
CU PHONE RINGS ON THE DUTY OFFICER'S DESK AND HE ANSWERS IT. HE LOOKS UP AT A CLOCK WHICH SHOWS 6:00AM. HE MAKES A CALL TO THE 25TH BATTALION.
00:46:22 807.67
CU FINGERS OF THE 25TH BATTALION'S DUTY OFFICER DIALING THE PHONE AFTER HE RECEIVED THE ALERT. GUN CREW POUR OUT OF THEIR BARRACKS ON THE RUN WITH THEIR EQUIPMENT AND LINE UP.
00:48:22 927.67
GIS ENTER THE QUARTERMASTER ROOM ONE BY ONE AND DRAW OUT THEIR RIFLES.
00:49:08 973.67
TRUCK PULLS INTO POSITION IN FRONT OF A BUILDING AND GIS RUN OUT WITH C-RATION CARTONS ON THEIR SHOULDERS TO LOAD ONTO THE TRUCK.
00:50:09 1034.67
CONVOY OF TRUCKS AND ARMORED VEHICLES LEAVE THE CAMP FOR THEIR POSITIONS IN CASE OF ATTACK.
00:51:02 1087.67
BLACK SERGEANT SOLDIER BARKS OUT AN ORDER AND THE GIS DISMOUNT THE TRUCKS AND PREPARE THEIR 90MM ARTILLERY PIECES FOR COMBAT. A POTABLE GENERATOR IS SET UP AND A RADAR ANTENNA BEGINS TO SCAN SKY
00:52:53 1198.67
MONTAGE THE 90MM GUN CREW MOVE INTO PLACE AT THE GUN AND SIMULATE TRACKING A TARGET ON RADAR AND FIRING. THE CONVOY OF TRUCKS AND GUN CARRIERS RIDE THE HIGHWAY BACK TO BASE.
00:54:02 1267.67
OFFICER CRITIQUES THE MEN'S PERFORMANCE TO THEM AS THEY SIT ON THE GROUND AND LISTEN.
00:56:29 1414.67
2 SMILING MPS STAND GUARD AT ENTRANCE TO FORT MEYER, VIRGINIA AS A GROUP OF YOUNG KIDS CARRYING RIFLES FILE BY THEM SOME WEARING DAVY CROCKETT COONSKIN HATS.
00:57:06 1451.67
ALL THE KIDS, INCLUDING GIRLS, MEMBERS OF THE JUNIOR RIFLE CLUB OF THE AMERICAN RIFLE ASSOCIATION PLACE THEIR RIFLES ON A RACK AND SIT AND LISTEN TO AN ADULT INSTRUCTOR ON HOW TO
HANDLE A RIFLE.
00:57:25 1470.67
ONE OF THE KIDS IS GIVEN A DIPLOMA FROM THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION AS 'SHARPSHOOTER'. NRA
00:57:45 1490.67
KIDS LIE DOWN ON THE GROUND OF THE RANGE WITH THEIR RIFLES AND ARE GIVEN INSTRUCTION BEFORE FIRING.
00:57:52 1497.67
TINY BOY GESTURES TO THE INSTRUCTOR THAT HE WANTS A TRY. THE INSTRUCTOR GESTURES NO. THE BOY SADLY WALKS AWAY.
00:58:33 1538.67
LITTLE BOY IS FINALLY GIVEN A CHANCE. HE LAYS DOWN, AIMS,THE OTHER KIDS HOLD THEIR EARS, THE BOY FIRES AND A FLAG WITH 'BANG' WRITTEN ON IT COMES OUT OF THE BARREL. COMICAL
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Year: 1942  Color: Black & White
Genre: MILITARY

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Keywords: TROOPS


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