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Quantico Virginia USA 1959 stock footage and images

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Police officer shoots and arrests criminals; trainees shoot at automatic targets at the FBI Academy

Opening scenes dramatized: A burglar alarm activates and rings. A policeman shoots at burglars fleeing from a shop. The police officer fires from the hip, successfully hitting the two criminals. FBI firearm training footage: A trainee shoots automatic targets at the electronic shooting range in the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Man shoots at a moving target on shooting range. Light bulbs indicate score. Policeman holding a Colt Police Positive 38 Model revolver gun. Dramatized: two criminals face the wall after arrest. A hand holding a Smith and Wesson Model 10 revolver. Man shoots a gun and loads bullets into a revolver. The man’s hand demonstrates control of the Smith and Wesson Model 10 revolver’s trigger. Sideview of a man pulling out a handgun from his holster.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080594
FBI trainees learn to shoot handguns at the FBI Academy; FBI agents shoot a criminal (dramatized)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent trainees shooting guns during combat training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Dramatized scenes: Two FBI agents enter a bar. A barman attends the two men. A fugitive resting his head on the table looks up. One of the FBI agents shows a badge to the bartender. The bar man looks at the fugitive. FBI agent shoots the criminal using the (draw hanging shooting) double action from hip level form. Training footage continues: A trainer steps back and draws his Smith and Wesson Model 10 revolver from the hip, demonstrating the Double Action Revolver shooting form. FBI agents practice the same shooting form with their handguns. Shooting targets with bullet holes in the abdomen area.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080587
A student trains with a trainer in self defense tactics at the FBI Academy

FBI agents practice self defense at the gymnasium or gym of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Academy in Quantico, Virginia. A trainer guides the student with basic principles of balancing, leverage, and foot position. The trainer pushes, pulls and carries the student during the defensive tactics training. The trainer hip throws the student. The student tries to subdue the trainer. The trainer holds the student’s pinky finger. The trainer uses his strength to direct his opponent’s movement to subdue the latter.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080596
Dedication of Marine Corps War Memorial at Quantico Virginia, and sculptor Felix de Weldon working on sculpture for Arlington location.

The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial original statue during its unveiling ceremony at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia on November 10, 1951 (This is after the statue had been moved from its original Constitution Avenue location in Washington DC in 1947, and subsequently renovated under sculptor de Weldon's supervision while it was in Quantico.). A sign on the memorial reads "Uncommon valor was a common virtue, 1945." Next scenes show sculptor Felix de Weldon as he works to build the larger Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, which was dedicated in November 1954. Felix de Weldon measuring a model of the flag raising on Iwo Jima made by him. de Weldon and others on his team work to carve the large war memorial in plaster before it is cast in bronze. Views of the sculpted faces of the six Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima: Faces of John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block and Michael Strank. Brief glimpse of the original flag raising scene on Mount Suribachi in February 1945. Next scene, circa 1954 or 1955, shows the completed Marine Corps War Memorial in bronze, in Arlington Virginia, with Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial landmarks of Washington DC in the background. Close-up views of faces of a young boy, an elderly woman, and a middle aged man who removes his hat. American flag fluttering in the breeze atop the war memorial.

Date: 1955
Duration: 5 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022004
New FBI Academy students take the oath, arrive at dormitories .

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Academy trainees taking the Oath of Enlistment inside classroom. Tabletop laden with revolvers, FBI badges and briefcases for new FBI agents. Close up of FBI badge. FBI academy student shakes hands with instructor as he receives his badge and revolver. Close up revolver handed to agent. “Bus departs or Quantico at 12 noon”, words written on blackboard. FBI Academy student trainees inside a bus. Bus passing Iwo Jima statue at Quantico Marine Corps Base entrance. View of FBI Academy building in Quantico, VA (Range Rd, Quantico, VA 22135). Sign reads “FBI Academy”. Student trainees with suitcases get off the bus, enter the FBI Academy. FBI Academy student trainees in suit and tie walk hallway of academy to find their dormitory rooms. FBI agent student removes his belongings, arranges clothes from his suitcase. Close view of a photograph of a woman with two daughters. Student writes his name on his FBI Handbook. Professor lectures in class. Blackboard words written “Jurisdiction of the FBI 1. Statutes 2. Executive Orders 3. Constitutional Provisions”. Male FBI Academy students listen and write notes during lecture. Robbers make a getaway after a bank robbery. Kidnapper lures and captures a toddler into his car from a suburban street. A person mails a letter in a U.S. Mail mailbox. Close up view of a running wind up 16mm motion picture film camera. Nazi German spy Frederick “Fritz” Joubert Duquesne pulling out stolen documents from his sock and passing them to an undercover agent in 1941.

Date: 1959
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078759
An officer ensures security of American amphibious forces at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico.

United States Marine Corps seal. Bomber planes in flight and attack. U.S. soldiers on a beach in combat. Officers outside an office at the Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Virginia. Sign 'Disbursing Office Marine Corps Schools - Quantico Virginia'. An officer ensures the security of American amphibious forces. He shows a card which needs to be filled by soldiers in Operation Security.

Date: 1964, June 22
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039955