https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ab0160a4-a413-4418-a2e1-d569d29af418 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Browse our products on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YILTSD This is a 1950’s era, silent, color film. (We're not sure why it is silent -- either it was intended to be used with an accompanying lecture or this is what is known as a "test print" of the film made without a soundtrack.) The film shows how the military uses color as a communication device, as an aid in combat, and for identification purposes. The movie opens with Marines marching towards the camera. An explosion in the field and red signal smoke rises. A plane takes off and spins upside down as part of an air show. 1:00. Soldiers march across the field holding flags 1:22. The American flag is hoisted 1:30. A sailor stands guard beneath the flag 1:47. Flag is raised at Iwo Jima by the Marines 1:59. Soldiers parade in unison 2:15. A color guard presents Old Glory 2:38. West Point Cadets 2:50. Soldiers and sailors march in unison 4:02. Inspection 4:16 Revolutionary War era military costumes 4:33. Marines 4:42. Military marches with guns on their shoulders 5:14. The field turns as a unit 5:20. Soldiers, including African American soldiers, march 5:30. Soldiers with U.N. blue helmets 5:40. Two Army officers 6:00. Soldiers take aim on a firing range 6:12. An officer and a woman talk on base 6:33. A sailor receives a medal 6:46. Three medals are displayed 6:55. Each medal is shown individually 7:27. Decorated officers 8:00. Three medals are shown including the Medal of Honor, Purple Heart, Legion of Merit 8:30. Campaign and service ribbons are shown on a sailor and on a ship. Quartermaster symbol 9:15. Men hold flags on an open field 9:26. Different colored military patches 10:44. Individual patches including First Airborne Division 11:11. Several patches designating military units are shown in succession 11:20. A patch with a Native American image 11:37. Soldier with United Nations patch in Korea 11:42. Headquarters signage for Third Armored Division, 43rd Infantry Division, 2nd Armored Division, 4th Infantry Division 11:49. Machines are shown making patches and banners 12:19. A soldier picks up a rifle with a primitive night vision or magnifying scope 13:18. PT boat laying a smoke screen 13:56. Landing area with smoke screen 14:19. Landing craft on the beach 14:22. A Martin P5M Marlin on a search and rescue mission 14:51. Men in a life raft signal with a mirror 15:06. U.S. Navy destroyer USS Pope (DE-134) 15:17. Men in a life raft 15:53. Distant view of life raft 16:08. Man puts a green colored marker dye into the ocean from life raft 16:40. The dye can be seen from an aerial view 16:48. A man fires an orange smoke flare 16:57. Flares 17:33. Sailor shows off his shark repellent dye on his Mae West life vest 17:40. Making dye. 17:49. The mixture is put into a bowl 18:05. Sailors use an ink dye and bait to catch a shark and haul it on the ship 18:35. Sharks are in a frenzy 18:45. Navy flag signaling demonstration by sailors 19:03. A sailor looks through a telescope 19:13. A Navy battleship is shown flying many flags 19:25. Sailor looks through binoculars and flags fly over the ship 20:05. Signal flags are hoisted on the mast of the ship 20:16. Landing Signal Officer (LSO) on an aircraft carrier uses flags to signal planes 20:43. Pink smoke floats nearby to show wind direction and speed 21:17. Various smoke colors used in combat 21:50 - 22:27. Grumman F9F Panther with fire crew 22:39. Fireman in a hazmat suit 22:59. Man unfurls a green flag indicating safe to land 23:05. Different types of buoys and lighthouses shown 24:04. Different types of gas bottles designated by color 24:26. A Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar flies overhead and paratroops deploy 24:55. An African American engineer works in a wind tunnel. Different colored Schlieren lines converge over the point of a projectile 26:00. A man in an orange rescue suit jumps from a plane 26:05. He deploys his parachute. Cruiser USS Worcester CL-144 conducts a fire suppression exercise 26:40. The cruiser is covered in colored residue indicating where water would be deployed by the spray system 27:25. A tank rolls across the field and shoots napalm from its turret 28:00. It destroys a building. Plane drops a bomb and destroys a structure 28:20. Tracer ammunition fills the night sky 28:50. A modified German V-2 rocket launches at White Sands in New Mexico 29:21. Pilot exits a Huey helicopter which has landed at a MASH unit in Korea 29:30. Patients are loaded into an ambulance. A hospital ship with a large red cross is seen on the water 29:52. Different colored signal smokes on display 30:11. The end. 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