This episode of “The Big Picture” — a U.S. Army weekly report — looks at the rapidly evolving technology of TV and explains how the Signal Corps is using it, and plans to use it in the future. The show is hosted by Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen and dates to the 1950s.

00:09 “The Big Picture”. 00:29 Sgt. Stuart Queen. 00:52 Interior mechanics of RCA TV camera with both transistors and vacuum tubes. 01:18 San Francisco Chronicle headline: “Extra! War! Battle for Hawaii!” 01:19 Sinking battleship. 01:22 Mans speaks into WTTM New Jersey radio statoin microphone. 01:25 Family listening to radio. 01:27 Exterior: Pentagon. 01:34 Meeting of military officials. 01:43 “Coles Signal Laboratory: U.S. Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories” sign. This was located in Red Bank, New Jersey. 01:47 Technicians work on TV technology. 02:02 Twin Coach bus modified as a mobile tV studio 02:14 Solider exits bus. 02:22 Soldiers set up tv equipment. 02:54 Soldiers enter water and row away in a boat. Officer watches on monitor. 03:05 Explosion. 03:10 Propeller airplane takeoff. 03:12 Cameraman films plane. 03:16 Aerial of ground. 03:21 Officer exits bus 01392292. 03:25 Signal Corps technicians. 03:36 Signal Corps Pictorial Center, NYC, exterior. 03:50 Exterior: Television Studio F stage. “On Air” sign. 03:53 Montage: Television crew around cameras in studio. 04:34 Signal corp tv personal in control room. 04:59 Military scene in production studio courtyard. 05:03 Cameraman and producer. 05:08 Camera 1 on military turret. 05:13 Satellite dish spins. 05:16 Camera 2 on soldiers. 05:22 Camera 3 on soldier. 05:26 Director holds stopwatch over script. 05:31 Close up of television monitor. 05:38 Military actor monologue. 06:08 Control panel. 06:15 Filming recoilless rifle. 06:17 Ambulance. 06:21 Miniature wrist radio just like the one used by Dick Tracy. 06:23 Pan to M51 Skysweeper, anti-aircraft gun. 06:35 Kinescope records live TV program onto 16mm film for later use 06:50 Soldier uses wrist radio. 07:09 US Caduceus medical seal. 07:19 Ambulance. 07:42 Technicians in control room. 08:00 Soldiers march. 08:20 Airsweeper. 08:32 Marching, close up of boots. 09:01 Mobile TV unit arrives at Camp Gordon: Signal Corps Training Center, an installation in Georgia. 09:10 Classroom. 09:46 Antenna tower. 09:58 “The Southeastern Television Branch Signal School” sign. 09:59 Instructor demonstrates for cameras. “TSESS-TV”. 10:30 Control room. 10:42 Students watch closed circuit tv. 10:51 Arrangement of 3×3 study classrooms. 11:17 TV classroom given paper tests. 12:00 Tests graded. 12:10 Televised gun assembly. 12:52 Teacher points to phonetic alphabet chart. 13:47 Researcher points to bulletin board. 13:51 Control room. 14:07 “Signal Corps television” camera. 14:45 Research psychologists discuss study. 15:19 Officers discuss results. 15:39 Officer assembles a gun. 16:09 Instruction of contour lines map reading. 17:03 TV production. 17:23 Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. 17:39 “Danger: Do Not Enter Plants Area, Obtain Clearance from Office” sign. 17:45 Student drills out dud explosive. 18:08 Student uses TV to remotely operate machinery. 19:11 Solders crawl, run at tank. 19:30 Troops practice maneuver. 19:41 Paratroopers load onto Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar 20:02 Soldiers practice operating M65 atomic cannon (Atomic Anne), nuclear capable artillery. 20:10 MGM-5 Corporal missile, long-range guided missile. 20:28 MGR-1 Honest John rocket, the first nuclear-capable surface-to-surface rocket. 20:35 “Signal Corps Mobile Television Section”. 20:51 Paratroopers drop from aircrafts. 21:11 Lieutenant General A.R. Paulings, Army Chief of Staff General Matthew B Ridgeway. 21:18 Army officers watch military operation. 21:33 Group watches operation on television. 21:50 Mobile camera records paratroopers. 21:59 Mobile control room. 22:03 “Exercise Flash Burn Observers War Room” sign. 22:06 Group watches TV. 22:15 Officer phones in on radio from “CP” tent. 22:27 Plane circles. 22:35 Two-way radio operation. 22:46 Shooting TV from aircraft. The camera being used is similar to an RCA BLOCK military TV camera / iconoscope. 23:02 Antenna spots plane signal. 23:07 Plane televises ground movement. 23:23 Commander marks “Situation Map”. 23:35 Troop communicate via radio. 23:42 Soldier holding portable TV camera records exercise. 24:07 Cord leading to satellite dish. 24:17 Montage: Microwave relay of signal to various dish stations. 24:45 Tanks roll through battlefield, explosions. 24:59 Soldiers surrender. 25:02 Montage: Military uses for TV. 25:28 Operation Crossroads atomic bomb test 25:53 TV camera. 25:59 The End.

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