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00:31:42 11.43
"THAYER OF WEST POINT"
LOWELL THOMAS NARRATES THIS STORY OF THE 'FATHER
OF WEST POINT'. AN OUTSTANDING CAST RECREATES THE
LIFE OF SYLVANUS THAYER AT THE ACADEMY
00:31:47 16.43
MONTAGE- OLD PICTURESQUE BUILDINGS THAT MAKE UP
THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT.
00:31:50 19.43
MS- STUDENTS SIT ERECTLY DURING A SERVICE IN THE
WEST POINT CHAPEL
00:32:11 40.43
MS- CADETS CARRYING BOOKS MARCH TO CLASSES
00:32:23 52.43
MS- STATUE OF COLONEL SYLVANUS THAYER, FATHER OF
THE MILITARY ACADEMY. (ZOOM IN ON HIS FACE)
00:32:58 87.43
MS- PAINTING OF WEST POINT IN THE EARLY 1800'S.
00:33:10 99.43
MS- A CADET DURING THE EARLY 1800'S BRUSHES HIS
HAIR BEFORE A MIRROR IN HIS ROOM (A REENACTMENT)
OLIVER, A SNOBBISH RICH BOY WALKS IN WITH CANE
AND TOP HAT IN HAND STATES, "I'M BACK"!
00:33:20 109.43
MS- OLIVER IS UPSET ABOUT THE NEW SUPERINTENDANT
THAYER, PLACING A PUBLIC NOTICE IN NEWSPAPER
ORDERING ALL STUDENTS BACK TO THE ACADEMY.
00:33:42 131.43
MS- THE ROOMMATE READS OTHER NEW RULE BY THAYER,
WHICH INCLUDES, "NO CADET SHALL HAVE A WAITER,A
HORSE OR DOG".
00:34:24 173.43
CU- IN ASTONISHMENT, OLIVER SAYS, "I WONDER IF
THAT INCLUDES A VALET"
00:34:50 199.43
ANGRY OLIVER STATES "SOMETHING MUST BE DONE, I
SHALL NOTIFY FATHER".
00:34:55 204.43
MS- AN ANGRY FATHER FACES SUPERINTENDENT THAYER
(BACK TO CAMERA) ASKING WHY HIS SON CANNOT LIVE IN
HIS ACCUSTOMED MANNER. HE THREATENS THAYER WITH
HIS "INFLUENCE IN HIGHER PLACES".
00:35:05 214.43
MS- WHEM THAYER IS NOT IMPRESSED, THE FATHER
ANGRILY LEAVES THE ROOM.
00:35:19 228.43
A STUDENTS (ACTOR GEORGE SEGAL) SITS RESTLESSLY
IN A CLASSROOM AND THROWS A SLATE PENCIL AT THE
TEACHER WHO IS WRITING ON A BLACKBOARD.
00:36:52 321.43
MS- THE STUDENT (SEGAL) MAKES GESTURE OF DISBELIEF
WHEN THE TEACHER PICKS HIM OUT AS THE CULPRIT.
00:37:00 329.43
MS- THE STUDENT MAKES A GESTURE OF BOREDOM AS HE
GOES BEFORE THAYER WHERE HE IS DISMISSED.
00:37:21 350.43
MS- A STUDENT SITS AT HIS DESK AND WRITES LETTER,
WITH A QUILL PEN, TO HIS BROTHER.
00:38:09 398.43
CU- A CADET BEATING ON A SNARE DRUM ANNOUNCING
DRILL. CU- MARCHING FEET AS WORK INTENSIFIES UNDER
THAYER WITH EVERY HOUR BEING UTILIZED
00:39:21 470.43
MS- A CADET NEATLY ARRANGES HIS CLOTHING ON
SHELVES IN A SPECIFIC MANNER.
00:39:30 479.43
MS- A CADET WRITES A LETTER HOME, PAN TO HIS FEET
IN A POT OF HOT WATER.
00:41:12 581.43
CU- PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG THAYER AFTER GRADUATION
FROM DARTMOUTH WITH HIGHEST HONORS. DRAWINGS OF
THE WAR OF 1812 WHERE THAYER SERVED AS ENGINEER.
00:41:32 601.43
MS- DRAWINGS OF NAPOLEON REVIEWING CADETS AT
FRENCH ACADEMY.
00:42:00 629.43
MS- DRAWINGS OF NAPOLEON'S BATTLE AT WATETRLOO.
MS- DRAWING OF THE FRENCH MILITARY SCHOOL WHERE
THAYER TOURED.
00:42:48 677.43
MS- DRAWINGS IN BOOKS, OF FRENCH MILITARY
ARCHECTURE, WHICH THAYER SENT BACK TO THE U.S.
00:44:00 749.43
MS- AIMING AT INTENSIFYING TRAINING AT THE
ACADEMY. THAYER PROMOTES A FRENCH TEACHER TO
PROFESSOR BECAUSE ALL THE BEST MILITARY BOOKS
WERE IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE.
00:44:55 804.43
MS- THE ACADEMIC BOARD ESTABLISHED BY THAYER
MEETS IN SESSION.
00:45:20 829.43
LS- THE ACADEMY LIBRARY ONE OF THE OLDEST
BUILDINGS THERE, A SYMBOL OF THAYER'S EFFORTS.
00:45:40 849.43
MS- ENGINEERING PROFESSOR SHOWS CADETS VARIOUS
PROJECTS AS THAYER ESTABLISHES THE FIRST
SYSTEMATIC ENGINEERING COURSE IN THE U.S.
00:46:20 889.43
MONTAGE- STUDENTS OF YORE STUDY THEIR ENGINEERING
PROJECTS LATE INTO THE NIGHT.
00:46:55 924.43
MS- A STUDENT COVERS HIS WINDOW WITH A BLANKET SO
HE CAN CONTINUE STUDYING WITHOUT DETECTION.
00:48:00 989.43
MS- THE CADET ADMITS TO THAYER THAT HE STAYED UP
AFTER HOURS TO COMPLETE HIS STUDIES. THAYER HAS
HIM REPORT FOR PUNISHMENT.
00:49:08 1057.43
LS- MODERN CADETS MARCH AT THE ACADEMY'S PARADE
GROUND. MS- PAN OF A CADETS NEATLY KEPT ROOM.
00:49:30 1079.43
MONTAGE- CADETS AT STUDY HALLS AND IN CLASSROOMS.
00:50:22 1131.43
MS- STUDENTS EXIT THAYER HALL.
00:50:50 1159.43
MS- PORTRAIT OF SYLVANUS THAYER.
00:51:18 1187.43
MS- OLD PAINTINGS OF THE OLD WEST PRAIRIES AND
PIONEERS STRUGGLING THROUGH THE SNOW.
00:52:18 1247.43
MONTAGE- OLD DRAWINGS OF THAYER'S MEN SETTING OUT
TO FIND ROUTES FOR FUTURE RAILROADS. CU- DRAWINGS
OF A BIRD'S LEG, FISH AND SNAKES WERE ALL BROUGHT
BACK TO THE ACADEMY BY THE ACADEMY PIONEERS.
00:53:53 1342.43
MS- DRAWINGS OF THEIR CONTACTS WITH INDIANS AND
RAILROAD BUILDING AT THE TIME. DRAWING OF A HUGE
HERD OF BUFFALO NEXT TO A RAILROAD TRAIN.
00:55:00 1409.43
MONTAGE- HUGE FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS, BRIDGES &
GREAT DAMS.
00:55:05 1414.43
MS- DRAWINGS OF THE MEXICAN WAR AND CIVIL WAR
00:56:38 1507.43
CU- PHOTOS OF GENERALS GRANT, LEE, STONEWALL
JACKSON AND SHERMAN.
00:56:48 1517.43
FILM OF GENERALS PERSHING, MACARTHUR, EISENHOWER,
CLARK AND BRADLEY. IKE
00:57:55 1584.43
LS- CADETS AND LEADERS STAND AT ATTENTION AT THE
STATUE OF COLONEL SYLVANUS THAYER
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Year: 1910  Color: Black & White
Genre: MILITARY

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Keywords: military


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