Big Picture: I Am the Guard
no date · National Archives and Records Administration (via FedFlix)
Finding Not asserted
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
- 2569731 (local identifier 111-TV-474)
- Internet Archive item
- gov.archives.arc.2569731 (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 2569731 / Local Identifier 111-TV-474 Big Picture: I Am the Guard DVD Copied by Timothy Vollmer. Civilian in peace, soldier in war--so begins the theme for this episode, titled "I Am the Guard." Here is a film documentary which details the dedicated efforts of citizen soldiers toward maintaining the strength, fitness, and combat readiness of the Army National Guard as a full-fledged member of the Army team. Much of the production was filmed on location in and around Concord, Massachusetts, where one of the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard around the world. Living among signs of the past, Guardsmen assigned to a Nike-Ajax site are seen reacting to an alert warning. Whether the alert is practice or the real thing, men of the Guard get to their posts on the double. As established in the film, an Unidentified Flying Object has been detected not far from the coast of Massachusetts. As a result of the alert, a large group of trained Guardsmen throughout a wide area of New England have been sent into action. In a final film montage, the many and varied roles of the Army National Guard are examined at close-up range. Included is the role of Guard units in case of a natural disaster.