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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website This film, produced by the Boy Scouts of America, documents the 50-year anniversary national jamboree. Over 56,000 boy scouts participated in the jubilee jamboree held in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1960. It shows the various activities enjoyed by boy scouts from across the world, including performances, cooking, and hiking in the Rocky Mountains. The event ran from July 22 to 28 with the theme “For God and Country”. A train arrives at a station in Columbia, Colorado (00:07). Another train arrives at another station on the “Rio Grande Scenic Railroad” railway (00:27). Many boy scouts exit the train and walk on the station (00:31). A TWA Airlines 317 aircraft landing (00:57). Boy scouts exit the plane (01:08). They enter “Trailway” busses at a bus station (01:27). More boy scouts are walking (01:32). They exit the buses and take their bags and unload other items (01:39). Some scouts set up tents for camp (01:54). They hammer down poles (02:01) and set up benches (02:05). Bird’s-eye view of the campsite near the Rocky Mountains in Colorado (02:09). An explosion in the air (02:29). Boy scouts raise the flag of the United States (02:32). All boy scouts are stood in rows, giving salute for the jamboree’s opening ceremony (02:38). The flags of the various boy scouts (02:43). “Jubilee Jamboree” title banner (02:52). Boy scouts are using telephones (03:07). Scouts shoot arrows at a shooting disc (03:19). They practice using fishing rods (03:28) and shooting at the rifle range (03:37). Scouts run an obstacle course (03:51). They listen to a scout leader lecturing in conservation (05:03). Scouts watch horse-riding at the camp-site’s ranch (05:12) and cattle (05:17). Scouts use Geiger counters to look for uranium (05:27). ‘Smokey the Bear’ waving at the scouts in front of a Sikorsky H-34 US army helicopter (05:35). ‘Smokey the Bear’ is signing autographs for the scouts (05:38). The rodeo sport of bull riding (05:41). The audience in the arena (06:15). A march with many U. S. flag in the arena begins (06:32). A scout orchestra plays in the show (07:01). A performance with scouts mimicking native Americans (07:24). A performance mimicking the era of the American West (08:01). Fireworks (08:28). Scouts seated at a bench writing on paper (08:40). Scouts are cooking (08:48) and they eat with their scout leader (08:53). Chefs cooking food, which scouts can buy (09:01). The scouts eat the food they bought (09:09). A doctor perform check-up on scouts (09:12). Scouts are doing laundry (09:18). One scout wakes another scout from sleeping in a tent by tickling his feet (09:24) and another by shaking his head (09:30). Different religious services for all scouts at the jamboree, including a Protestant, Jewish, Catholic, and Mormon service (09:37). Scouts hiking in the Rocky Mountains (09:55) and riding the Broadmoor Manitou to Pikes Peak (10:04). Views of the Davis Airfield U. S. Air Force Academy at Pikes Peak (10:09). A sign of the Ghost Town Museum in Colorado Springs (10:21). Footage from scouts in the museum (10:24). Scouts riding lifts up and down the mountain sides (10:36) and to “El Paso Gold Mine” (10:46). Scouts resting back at the campsite and reading newspapers (10:57). Scouts swap things with each other (11:01). Model rockets are fire up into the air (11:17). A U. S. Navy blue Angels airshow (11:25). Scouts throwing another scout into the air repeatedly (11:43). A barrel ‘bull riding’ simulator (11:58). Scouts drumming on a barrel (12:06), frying donuts (12:12), wrestling (12:21), playing a game (12:27), grilling salmon (12:33), making wood oars (12:42), baking Dutch-oven pies (12:47), dressing up as Indians (12:55), making hotcakes (13:04), starting fires with flint stones (13:10), cooking shrimp (13:24), lifting weights (13:49), cutting a hanging skinned bear (14:00), and smoking bear meat (14:06). Performers play oil drums (14:18). Scouts play limbo (14:26). Chinese scouts perform the Chinese Dragon Dance (14:41). Hawaiian scouts play ukulele and dance (14:52). Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower visiting the jamboree (15:05). Scouts climbing a tower (15:37), eating a popsicle (15:46), holding an animal scull (15:50), hiking (15:55), eating (16:04), wrestling (16:08), feeding a squirrel (16:12), dressing as Indians (16:17). “The End” written on screen (16:43). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
