Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VM-1070

00:02:20 51	"HISTORIC FORT MONROE" "OBSOLETE" FILM. ACTIVITIES AT FORT MONROE, VIRGINIA, WHERE THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY'S CONTINENTAL ARMY COMMAND IS LOCATED.
00:02:25 56	NARRATOR TELLS THE STORY OF FORT MONROE, VIRGINIA, HEADQUARTERS OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY COMMAND.
00:02:57 88	AERIAL HISTORIC FORT MONROE ON THE EXTREME TIP OF VIRGINIA PENINSULAR IS SURROUNDED BY A MOAT
00:03:35 126	LS THE CONTINENTAL ARMY COMMAND BUILDING AT FORT MONROE. CU COMMANDING GENERAL, WILLARD G. WYMAN, TELLS THE HISTORY OF THE FORT AND IT'S MISSION.
00:05:18 229	MS NARRATOR QUEEN STOPS AT A PLAQUE TELLING THE HISTORY OF FORT MONROE, BUILT IN 1609 AND CALLED FORT ALGERNOURNE BY THE BRITISH.
00:05:27 238	MS QUEEN PASSES A LARGE FROM THE CIVIL WAR AND THEN ANOTHER WITH THE CANNON BALLS PILED UP.
00:06:23 294	MS SERGEANT QUEEN STOPS OUTSIDE THE FORT'S MUSEUM AND SPEAKS TO AN ARMY WAC SERGEANT WHO IS THE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER. SHE GIVES SOME OF THE HISTORY OF THE FORT.
00:08:27 418	MS QUEEN STOPS BY MODELS OF THE 'MONITOR' & THE 'MERRIMAC' INSIDE THE MUSEUM. MS- DRAWINGS OF THE FAMOUS BATTLE ARE ON THE WALL
00:08:52 443	CU- PAINTING OF A YOUNG ROBERT E. LEE IN UNIFORM. WHO ONCE COMMANDED THE RE-BUILDING OF THE FORT.
00:08:58 449	MS- A PAINTING OF EDGAR ALLEN POE RECITING POETRY HE WAS A FORMER SERGEANT MAJOR AT THE FORT. MS- A PAINTING OF LINCOLN VISITING THE FORT.
00:09:37 488	MS- CELL WHERE JEFFERSON DAVIS, PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY, IS AT THE FORT. MS- DRAWING ON WALL DEPICTS DR. CRAVEN, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER AT THE FORT, ATTENDING TO DAVIS IN DAVIS'S BED.
00:11:18 589	MS- INSIDE THE CHAPEL OF THE CENTURION WHICH WAS BUILT 100 YEARS AGO. THE CHAPLAIN TELLS THE STORY
00:12:00 631	MS- FLAGS AND COLORS OF OLD REGIMENTS OF THE U.S. ARMY OVER THE YEARS HANG INSIDE THE CHAPEL INCLUDING WOODROW WILSON'S FLAG.
00:12:10 641	MONTAGE- STAINED GLASS WINDOWS HONOR MANY OF THE SOLDIERS THAT SERVED HERE OVER THE YEARS.
00:14:22 773	MS- CAMERA PANS FROM AN ANCIENT CANNON AT THE FORT TO A NEW OFF-POST HOTEL.
00:14:50 801	MS- PAN FROM AN OLD LIGHTHOUSE, TO THE WATER WHERE THE 'MONITOR' FOUGHT THE 'MERRIMAC'
00:15:28 839	MS- KIDS FROLIC IN THE POOL AT THE FORT. LS- GI HOUSING ON THE FORT GROUNDS WITH WIVES AND KIDS RELAXING AND PLAYING ON THE LARGE LAWN.
00:15:44 855	MS- PAN OF TOMBSTONES AT A DOG CEMETERY
00:15:57 868	LS- OLD QUARTERS BUILT IN 1919 ARE STILL IN USE.
00:16:29 900	MS- AN ARMY BAND PLAYS IN CONCERT UNDER A GAZEBO. PAN TO OPEN SEA WITH A OIL TANKER BOUND FOR EUROPE SAILING BY. U.S. FLAG FLYS ON A VERY HIGH POLE OVER FORT MONROE.
00:17:54 985	MS- MAJOR GORDON ANDREWS, INFORMATION OFFICER OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY COMAND (CONARC) TELLS OF THE IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS OF CONARC.
00:18:43 1034	MS- CONARC OFFICERS EXAMINE A NEW BOOT FOR ARCTIC USE.
00:19:15 1066	MS- CONARC GIS EXAMINE AN HONEST JOHN MISSILE ON IT'S LAUNCHER. LS- THE MISSILE IS FIRED.
00:19:45 1096	LS- A BACK DOOR OF AN ARMORED VEHICLE OPENS AND A SQUAD OF GIS COME RUNNING OUT.
00:19:52 1103	MS- A SELF-PROPELLED T-101 GUN ON TANK THREADS SPEEDS THROUGH DEEP MUD AND WATER IN A TEST.
00:20:16 1127	LS- AN MP DIRECTS TRAFFIC AT ENTRANCE TO FORT BENNING WHERE CONARC REVIEWS THE FUNCTIONS OF INFANTRY WEAPONS.
00:20:29 1140	LS- 2 MAN TEAM FIRES A RECOILLESS RIFLE, AS OTHERS FIRE OFF ARTILLERY BARRAGES IN TESTS.
00:20:51 1162	LS- AT FORT BLISS, TEXAS CONARC TROOPS TEST NIKE MISSILES. ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS ARE FIRED AND TESTED.
00:22:00 1231	MONTAGE- AT FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA THE SIGNAL CORP TESTS TV CAMERAS UNDER BATTLE CONDITIONS.
00:22:43 1274	MONTAGE- AT FORT DRUCKER, ALABAMA, CONARC TESTS ARMY LIGHTPLANES AND HELICOPTERS AT THE ARMY AVIATION HEADQUARTERS.
00:23:15 1306	MONTAGE- FORT GREELY ALASKA, HOME OF CONARC ARCTIC TEST RANGE WHERE MEN AND EQUIPMENT GO THROUGH TESTS IN ARCTIC CONDITIONS.
00:24:18 1369	MS- GIS WATCH A TRAINING FILM IN A BASE THEATER
00:24:52 1403	MONTAGE- TOWNS AND INDUSTRIAL AREAS INUNDATED BY FLOOD WATERS.
00:27:00 1531	MONTAGE- SOLDIERS AT FORT MONROE MARCH ON THE PARADE GROUNDS IN SUMMERWEAR SHORT PANTS.
00:30:18 1729	"LETTER FROM THE MOHAVE" A STUDY OF A SOLDIER'S TRAINING AT THE ARMORED COMBAT TRAINING CENTER, CAMP IRWIN, CALIFORNIA.
00:30:23 1734	NARRATOR TELLS OF THE ARMY COMBAT TRAINING CENTER AT CAMP ERWIN IN THE MOHAVE DESERT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WHERE GIS ARE SENT FOR A 6 WEEK INTENSIVE COURSE IN TANK FIRING AND MANEUVERING
00:31:09 1780	MS- A TYPICAL TRAINEE SITS ON BUNK AND WRITES HOME TO 'MOM' ABOUT WHAT HE WENT THROUGH TO BECOME A FULL FLEDGED TANK CREWMAN.
00:31:20 1791	LS- HUNDREDS OF TRAINEES MOUNT BUSES AT THE TRAIN STATION. LS- COLUMN OF BUSES TRAVEL ALONG A DESERT ROAD AND ENTER CAMP ERWIN, HEADQUARTERS OF ARMORED COMBAT TRAINING CENTER.
00:32:52 1883	ELS- TANKS RAISE DUST IN THE DESERT (PAN). MS-THE TRAINEES ARE MARCHED INTO A CLASROOM WHERE THEY SIT AND LISTEN TO AN OFFICER
00:33:42 1933	MS- THE TRAINEES ARE TRANSPORTED TO THE GUNNERY RANGE IN LARGE OPEN TRUCKS.
00:34:36 1987	MS- IN A JOKING DEMONSTRATION A GI IS HANDED A SHELL AND THROWS IT INTO THE OPEN TANK HATCH, AN EXPLOSION ENSUES. MS- THE TANK DRIVER EXITS THE HATCH IN DISARRAY
00:34:59 2010	MONTAGE- THE TRAINEES WINCE WHEN THEY HEAR THE FIRING OF THE 90MM SHELLS EACH TIME.
00:35:26 2037	MS- TRAINEES CLIMB ALL OVER THE TANK, EXAMINING IT AND GETTING FAMILIAR WITH ITS PARTS MS- AN INSTRUCTOR USES A POINTER TO EXPLAIN THE TANK'S ENGINE.
00:36:12 2083	MS- THE TRAINEES USE TOOLS TO MAKE REPAIRS UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF AN INSTRUCTOR.
00:36:48 2119	MS- STUDENTS PEER THROUGH RANGE FINDERS WHICH ARE SET UP BY THE CLASSROOM WINDOWS POINTED AT A TARGETS OUTSIDE.
00:37:36 2167	MS- TRAINEES SIT IN A MOCK UP OF A TANK'S INSIDE WITH ONE FEEDING SHELL INTO THE GUN AND ANOTHER PEERING THROUGH THE RANGE FINDER.
00:38:03 2194	MS- TRAINEES WEAR EARPHONES IN A COMMUNICATION CLASS AS THEY SIT AT A CONTROL PANEL
00:38:08 2199	LS- TRAINEES VISIT SCOTTY'S CASTLE BUILT BY AN ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE IN THE DESERT.
00:38:23 2214	LS- PAN OF THE ROCKY MOONLIKE LANDSCAPE OF THE AREA.
00:38:53 2244	MS- AN INSTRUCTOR SHOWS TRAINEES HOW TO USE SIGNAL FLAGS AS USED BY SAILORS ON SHIPS. MS- TRAINEES PRACTICE GETTING ON AND OFF THEIR TANKS, QUICKLY
00:40:34 2345	MS- INSTRUCTOR GIVES HAND SIGNALS TO TANKERS FOLLOWING HIS TANK.
00:40:53 2364	MS- GI IN TELLING HIS STORY WRITES HIS LETTER AT POOLSIDE.
00:41:50 2421	MS- TANK MACHINE GUN FIRING AT TARGET AND SPEWING OUT SPENT CARTRIDGES.
00:44:33 2584	MS- TRAINEES SIT ON SMALL GRAND STAND AND LISTEN TO AN INSTRUCTOR WITH A MAP OF THE TERRAIN AND A POINTER. LESSON OVER THE MEN MOUNT THEIR TANKS
00:44:58 2609	MONTAGE- MEN INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THEIR TANKS COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER DURING MANEUVERS.
00:53:00 3091	LS- TANKS FIRE AND THE SHELLS ARE SEEN EXPLODING IN THE DISTANT DESERT SANDS.
00:53:20 3111	LS- MONTAGE OF TANKS ROLLING THROUGH THE DESERT SCENES IN MANEUVERS.
00:58:06 3397	PICTORIAL REPORT NO. 25 "OBSOLETE FILM". THE ARMY ENGINEERS. THE 18TH TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, WITH ITS 21 HELICOPTERS, ARRIVES AT BREMERHAVEN, GERMANY.
00:58:11 3402	NARRATOR TELLS OF THE ARMY ENGINEER CENTER AT FORT BELMORE, VIRGINIA
00:58:56 3447	MS- WENDELL L. KEY, A CIVILIAN ENGINEER WORKING FOR THE U.S. ARMY, SITS AT HIS DRAFTING TABLE
00:59:20 3471	LS- SMOKE POURS OUT OF A FACTORY'S SMOKE STACKS. LS- SPARKS SPEW HIGH OUT OF A STEEL MILL
00:59:32 3483	LS- SMOKE FROM AN INDUSTRIAL AREA FILLS THE SKY.
00:59:41 3492	LS- GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE AND A WATER FLOWING DOWN A DAM AT A HYDRO ELECTRIC PLANT.
01:00:00 3511	LS- EARTH MOVERS AT WORK. LS- OIL SHOOTING UP AN OIL DERRICK.
01:00:28 3539	MONTAGE- MEN AT WORK IN ARMS PLANTS.
01:00:36 3547	MONTAGE- SOVIET WORKERS IN PLANT MAKING TRACTORS LS- LENIN ON AN OUTSIDE PLATFORM SPEAKS TO THE MASSES.
01:00:57 3568	LS- PAN OF THE SOVIET BOSSES ON THE KREMLIN WALL WATCHING A MILITARY PARADE INCLUDE BREZHNEV, MOLOTOV, BERIA BULGANIN, KHRUCHEV AND OTHERS
01:02:06 3637	MS- KEYS, THE ENGINEER SITS AT BREAKFAST WITH WIFE AND CHILD HIS WIFE WITH CHILD IN ARMS ACCOMPANIES KEYS TO HIS CAR IN DRIVEWAY. MS- HE KISSES BOTH GOODBYE AND DRIVES OFF TO WORK.
01:03:55 3746	MS- KEYS SITS WITH AN OTHER ENGINEER AT THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER AT FORT BELMORE WHERE HE DESIGNS BRIDGE EQUIPMENT FOR THE ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS
01:05:36 3847	MONTAGE- A CIVILIAN ENGINER SHOWS EXPERIMENTS WITH A CARBON ARC WHICH LETS OFF AN EXTREMELY BRIGHT LIGHT FORCING THE ENGINEER TO SHIELD HIS EYES, AND THE ENERGY IT GENERATES ALONG WITH OTHER EXPERIMENTS.
01:07:47 3978	MS- THE ENGINEER TELLS THE NARRATOR ABOUT THE MANY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTS PROJECTS AT THE RESEARCH AND PHOTOMETRIC SECTION.
01:12:00 4231	MONTAGE- WORK ON RESEARCH AND TESTING AT SIGNAL CORP LABS AND CHEMICAL WARFARE LABS ARE ALSO SHOWN. ORDINANCE CORP WORKS AT FUNGUS RESEARCH
01:15:35 4446	MONTAGE- MOSCOW STREETS ARE DEVOID OF TRAFFIC WITH AN OCCASIONAL TROLLEY CAR PASSING BY. MS- CONTRAST WITH HEAVY NEW YORK CITY TRAFFIC
01:16:11 4482	MS- BULLETS AND MACHINE GUNS ROLLING ON A CONVEYOR AT AN ARMS PLANT IN U.S.
01:16:15 4486	MS- MANY ENGINEERS AT THEIR DRAFTING TABLES.
01:16:30 4501	MS- SOVIET AND AMERICAN EMBASSADORS SPEAK AT UNITED NATIONS SESSIONS.
01:17:06 4537	MS- WENDELL KEYS AND WIFE PUSH THEIR CHILD ON A BACKYARD SWING
01:18:09 4600	LS- THE U.S. CARRIER 'CORREGIDOR' DOCKED AT A WEST GERMAN PORT, UNLOADS FOR THE 1ST TIME AN ENTIRE COMPANY OF ARMY HELICOPTERS IN AN OPERATIONAL STATE.
01:19:00 4651	LS- THE HELICOPTERS TAKE OFF ONE BY ONE FROM THE CARRIER. THEY LAND AT BREMERHAVEN AIRFIELD.
01:21:40 4811	LS- LOSING THEIR WAY, THE HELICOPTERS LAND AT AN EMPTY FIELD NEAR A SMALL TOWN. WEST GERMAN FARMERS AND CHILDREN, ATTRACTED BY THE UNUSUAL SPECTACLE, GIVE DIRECTIONS TO THE PILOTS