# Big Picture: Arctic Night

National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 2569606 / Local Identifier 111-TV-337 Big Picture: Arctic Night DVD Copied by IASL Master Scanner Liz Pruszko. Exercise Arctic Night was designed to provide training in extreme cold weather for paratroopers of the famed 82nd Airborne Division: "THE BIG PICTURE" to tell of "Artic Night;" Army's TV series now in sixth year -- Official weekly TV program of the Department of the Army, THE BIG PICTURE will release its first program of the '56 - '57 season this week. Keynote of the sixth consecutive season for this series, will be "Arctic Night," a film documentary made in icy Greenland. "Exercise Arctic Night" was designed to provide training in extreme cold weather for paratroopers of the famed 82nd Airborne Division. Seven hundred man hit the silk and dropped onto the frozen ice of a bay near Greenland's Thule Air Base. The jump made history for the Airborne Infantry; it was the largest, and, in fact, the first tactical drop ever made this far north. One of the scenes in the program depicts a road sign which reads: "North Pole -- 80 miles. An Army Signal Corps camera team of three sturdy volunteers braved temperatures of more than 40 degrees below zero to bring back the story for the TV audience. Host-narrator of the program, Master Sergeant Stu Queen, whose normal habitat is some 3,000 miles (and 70 degrees warmer) south of the North Pole, joined the Airborne Unit at their home, Fort Bragg, N.C. and flew with them to…

- Kind: Educational
- By: National Archives and Records Administration
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.2569606)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.