This Boy Scouts of America film from 1960, shows two young boys, Johnny and Bucky, who join the Eagle Patrol. They participate in different exercises to learn rope-tying, prey stalking, bonfire cooking, canoeing, and emergency preparedness. Lastly, the Scouts assist local police in finding a young girl lost in the woods.

Credits (00:06). “Footsteps of The Pioneers” title banner (00:17). Scenes of a young boy, Johnny Randall (00:39). Another boy, Bucky Jones (00:44). The boys walk together through a forest (00:51). They stop and unwrap two sticks from a tarp (01:12) and continue walking with the sticks (01:28). They stop at a Boy Scouts’ campsite (01:43). They sit down on the ground (01:58). Bucky climbs a tree (02:15). He is hanging head down from a branch (02:27). The branch snaps (02:32) and Bucky falls (02:34). Boy Scouts see the accident and run to help (02:39). One of them opens a first aid kit (03:04). Bucky and Johnny take their sticks and go with the Boy Scouts to the campsite (03:30). They meet Mr. Miller, Scout Master (03:52) and Blip Martin, the patrol leader (03:58). A pot of stew is served (04:09). A match stuck in a tree log is lit, using an axe (05:25). Bucky and Johnny walk over a monkey bridge (05:32). They make fire using flint stone and steel (05:43). Bucky and Johnny walk around the Scouts’ camp (06:06). They shake Blip Martin’s hand (06:14) and then leave (06:32). Bucky and Johnny arrive at a troop meeting (06:48). Blip introduces the boys to the Scouts (07:17). Bucky and Johnny are blindfolded to play a game of “Where’s Charlie?” (07:38). They are recruited in the Eagle Troop by Mr. Miller and Blip (07:54). The boys learn how to tie ‘Tenderfoot’ knots (08:23). Bucky ties the rope incorrectly (09:09) and him and Johnny fall (09:11). Recruitment ceremony (09:20). Everyone says the Scout oath (09:36). Scouts hike through a forest (09:54). They stop and use a map and a compass to navigate (10:16) and then continue walking (10:40). They set up camp at a campsite near a body of water (11:08) where they start a bonfire (11:13). They wrap food in aluminum foil (11:31) and place it into the bonfire (11:57). They unwrap the cooked food and eat lunch (12:01). Bucky cooks a potato without tinfoil on the fire (12:08) resulting in a burned potato (12:15). Scouts are exploring the creek near their campsite (12:20). They discover animals including frogs, snakes, and turtles (12:24). The Scouts practice ‘stalking’ prey by following their friends in the woods (13:07). A deer (14:16). A boy is mixing chemicals in a laboratory (14:37). Johnny shoots arrows with a bow (14:58). Bucky performs a high jump (15:09). An owl (15:16). Scouts running through the woods (15:39). One is waving a flag (15:50). They jump over a lake using a rope swing (16:06). The Scouts arrive at a cabin (16:27). A boy wrapped in gauze bandage exits the cabin and collapses, as part of an emergency drill (16:56). The Scouts run to assist (17:04). Singing at campfire (17:27). An owl (17:53). Scouts jump into a lake from a pier (18:04). They learn how to swim and dive (18:41). Canoeing (18:52) and crafting at the handicraft lodge (19:21). One dresses as an Indian, grabs a crafted weapon and pretend-attacks another scouts (19:42). Scouts shooting rifles (19:55). Sitting around a campfire (20:13). Pretending to be Indians, they arrive at the campfire and perform with music and dance (20:22). A police car driving (21:08). The officers exit the car (21:21) and ask the Scout Leader to help find a girl lost in the woods (21:26). The leader instructs the scouts for the search (21:32) and the scouts enter the woods to find the girl (21:40). Johnny and Bucky find a girl’s shoe (22:28) and continue searching by tracking the girl’s trail (22:52). Johnny and Bucky find the girl (24:11). The scouts are walking alongside a creek (24:28) and through the forest (25:07). “The End” text overlay (25:32).

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