Les Marines

00:00:01 Pierre Braunberg present

00:00:23 We thank general Shell, captain Meeker, instructors and recruits from camp Parris Island. Because of them, we have been able to make this film.

00:01:02 They are leaving to make their military service

00:01:19 They will have to get across a arm of the sea

00:01:54 The war he fought, the war he teach.

00:02:07 Three months to make it happen.

00:02:49 And these troops undergo the same kind of preparation, the same kind of training.

00:05:20 There are among them worried teenagers, but also young sane and sporty persons.

00:05:33 Fat or puny, cynic or frightened, coming from all backgrounds.

00:05:49 A bet

00:05:56 They are warned. They know what lies ahead.

00:06:09 According to standard mesurments. In one word: marines.

00:07:25 They will have to give it all up.

00:07:32 Here, they will only be personal numbers.

00:07:53 Only responding a single reply. YES SIR!

00:10:46 Why fight if we don't know how to vanquish.

00:12:02 They now have only one face.

00:13:15 That is the new art of war. The close combat.

00:15:19 Memories are however autorized, but at specific hours.

00:15:36 Sentinels make vigils, while maybe thinking that ninthy similar nights were nessessary to complete their transformation.

00:16:31 Each one says to himself ''I endured. I won my bet. I am marine forever.''

00:16:49 the glory of the battles of Belleau wood and Al Canal wood.

00:17:40 By making these boys perfect soldiers, don't we risk, during peace time, citizens marked by a too ruthless discipline?

00:18:14 Other worried boys go across the arm of the sea, that separtates the continent of the barrack