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Big Picture - Army Mountain & Winter Training Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: H1906-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950s,1960s

Country: USA

Location: CAmp Hale,Colorado

TC Begins: 01:59:26

TC Ends: 02:15:38

Duration: 00:16:12

Big Picture - Army Mountain & Winter Training Pt. 1 of 2 Montage: television camera & rocket launching; large artillery firing & mushroom cloud; large helicopters landing w/ troops jumping out; soldiers firing ?? on hillside. 01:59:57 Rotating relief globe & title sequence: The Big Picture. 02:00:16 Sgt. Stewart Queen to camera re WW2 mountain troops & 1950s specialized training in Colorado. 02:01:13 Montage: WWII European street fighting. GOOD. 02:01:36 Farmers in field cutting hay w/ artillery firing beyond. US army troops past cows in field. CU feet walking on icy snow-covered road, thru snowy field w/ tanks. Good Normandy invasion landing footage. 02:02:15 Tanks & infantry in North Africa fighting. 02:02:31 Pacific island jungle fighting. GOOD battle scenes. Soldier hit. 02:02:51 Mountain fighting, MCU, GOOD. 02:03:19 Colorado Rocky Mountains & Camp Hale mountaineering; soldiers on rocky face. Army rock climbers training / practicing; CUs & MSs. 02:05:27 CU hammering in piton & attaching carabiner & rope; using other climbing iron. Instructor watching. 02:06:44 MS practice fall, climbing back up rope. Smooth rock face & placing pitons & w/ climbing slings going up face to the top. Onto the top, others coming up. Soldier belaying. Group reaching the top, smiling & looking around, camera pan. 02:10:39 Soldiers beginning descent; rappelling above deep valley. Throwing rope down for next leg of descent. 02:12:49 Men running down talus / scree slope 02:13:19 Men in formation in valley, moving ahead; single file up slope. Hoisting equipment on rope & following up steep rock. Man ignores rope, shaky feet, slides down rocks. Soldier w/ rope making rope bridge across canyon / chasm. Troops crossing. Men along ridge. Continued... American Army Training; 1950s; 1960s; NOTE: This card sold at per reel rate; or any continuous ten minutes of entire film sold at per reel rate.

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