Big Picture: One Army
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Not asserted: the record does not name the creating body; its local identifier places it in NARA record group 111 (Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Army Signal Corps), a federal agency's records, which is evidence of federal origin but not proof of authorship, since agencies also filed acquired and captured footage.
The record does not name a federal creating body, or names one alongside a private producer, a state body or a government corporation. Such a film may well be a government work, but this registry only says so when the record does.
- Creating body, as recorded
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- National Archives Identifier
- 2569721 (local identifier 111-TV-464)
- Internet Archive item
- gov.archives.arc.2569721 (uploader's licence mark: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Flags
- no-creator, record-group-federal
The record
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National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 2569721 / Local Identifier 111-TV-464 Big Picture: One Army DVD Copied by Timothy Vollmer. In America's wars of the past, this nation has achieved "One Army" unity without giving it particular thought. The combined thinking and efforts of all branches and all components, working as a team under the stress of wartime demands, has been the key to our victories in battle. As dramatically presented on film, it is during the actual months of combat when men shared the rigors, dangers, and accomplishments of war together, that there has been a unity of spirit, purpose, and action. On the front line--in the heat of battle--no one stopped to ask whether a man was a "Regular," "a Guardsman," or a "Reservist." Yet, this unity was never achieved until after the battle began. Unfortunately, however, each time a wartime Army was demobilized following victory, its soldiers tended once more to think of themselves as Regulars, or National Guardsmen, or Reservists, rather than simply as soldiers of the United States Army. As brought forth in this documentary film, today all the Army's components have essential, indispensable roles all the time. No component can perform its mission without the support and cooperation of the other two. Like the Three Musketeers of Dumas' famous novel, they are "All for one and one for all."