Graduation Parade
2002 Video Released...
This has taken a LONG time to release because we have tried something entirely
new. While the Academy DOIM was shooting video from the ground, I was in an
airplane with Lee Ross '73 of Sky View Pictures shooting aerial footage of the
parade. Editing the two sources together was a new experience as one came in
analog source format and the other in digital source format, we finally have
a unique product with aerial footage inserted at appropriate times into the
ground footage. The aerial shots of the Class of 2002 marching away from the
Corps provide a new and profoundly different perspective of that momentus event.
One very different element of this Graduation Parade is the Black and Red uniforms
of two companies of Cadets from St. Cyr, the French Military Academy, marching
to honor the Bicentennial of USMA. They are seen early in the video marching
on alongside the Corps, and then passing in review to take a position at the
end of the reviewing line around the corner from where the Class of 2002 takes
their place after marching away from the Corps for the last time. Later in July,
a contingent of USMA Cadets returned the salute to St. Cyr's Bicentennial, leading
a parade down the Champs-Elysees on Bastille Day. We're trying to get some video
of that also.
Enjoy this unique ground/air video of the 2002 Graduation Parade!! To get there go to www.virtualwestpoint.org or www.virtualwp.org, click on the picture to enter the site, and then click on the Graduation Parade link just under General News.