Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS)
Video Collection
Title: Transportation Story
Video No 1: Featuring USNS General Edwin D. Patrick.
Production Date: 11/03/1951
Length: 06:58
Shot List: Pretty young women smiling and
looking out to sea. USNS Gen. Edwin D. Patrick sails toward pier.
Army cutter moves toward pier, ties up alongside. Unidentified
general officer returns salutes and walks up gangplank. Jeep
bearing two-star general's plaque drives toward camera. USNS
Patrick, at dock. Officers and enlisted men walk toward camera.
Generals smile and wave toward ship. Canopied gangplank is hoisted
into place. Soldiers carrying gifts up gangplank. Dependents
crowd the ship's railings. Soldiers and civilians on pier,
General Matthew B Ridgway and wife speak to an officer. Women
civilians walk up gangway. Mrs. Ridgway speaking. Ridgway and
his wife. Short unrelated scenes of officers and their wives
talking, welcoming each other. General scenes of activities and
passengers. The Patrick coming into the pier. Officers walking
toward camera, pointing, speaking. Band playing. Dependents at rail
of ship. Ridgway and wife waiting for passengers to debark.
Officers and wives greeting each other and Gen. and Mrs.
Ridgway. DANNY KAYE, BLOOD PROGRAM.: Yanggu, Korea: 11/08/1951:
Bandaged soldier lies on the ground; a chaplain, Danny Kaye and
medics around him. The chaplain reads a prayer, Kaye speaks into
a microphone and the medics work on the man. Medics jeep flying
red cross flag. Medic fastens plasma bottle to stock of rifle
stuck in ground. Combat medics insignia and name "Brinkley" on
tag of fatigue jacket. Medics securing plasma on rifle stock.
Soldier operating tape recorder. Kaye speaking into microphone
while others attend wounded man. Tilt-up of men walking past
sign: "CP 17th Infantry". Sign beneath: "The Home of the
Buffaloes". MP directs traffic as armed soldiers walk past sign:
"Danny Kaye Show", arrow on it points left. Bandleader and
musicians. Bandleader waves baton, orchestra playing. Danny Kaye
acting up with baton. Band playing. Theater packed with smiling
soldiers. Performer Monica Lewis, laughing soldiers, Miss Lewis
sings into microphone.