Elvis Enters the Army 3-24-58, Negative Trims (1958, Frank Koza Collection)
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- "Elvis Enters the Army 3-24-58, Negative Trims" (1958, Frank Koza Collection, 16mm, B&W negative, sound)
Singer Elvis Presley is processed into the Army on March 24, 1958 at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. He talks to reporters, fills out paperwork, and gets a physical examination. Elvis' parents, Vernon and Gladys Presley, are seen briefly, looking dour. The day was dubbed "black Monday" for his fans by the press.
The singer entered regular Army service as a private, rather than joining Special Services, in which he would have entertained troops.
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His poor momma. She hated every bit of that & stressed about him nonstop. Imagine having the most talented human being as your son & then he gets drafted into the army. It breaks my heart to see a family so close get torn apart under such stressful circumstances.
Torn apart nothing. He was drafted into a peacetime Army. Did his duty and got out.
@@SkyKingofMaricopa you’re right, his mom didn’t stress about it at all.
She only lasted another 5 mths too young
How on earth did Gladys and Vernon make such a beautiful human being? He is so different in every way than others. And when you add his gorgeous voice, movements, charisma, energy, you really get perfection ❤
He look’s just like the both of them that’s why lol.
Si tiene algo de parecido pero muy poco. Elvis es un ser perfectísimo... Alguien comentó una vez que estuvo en las Vegas en su show un señor de hecho. Y dijo que la hermosura de Elvis era casi irreal... Por eso las chicas casi desmayaban al verlo.... Yo que nunca lo ví en persona y que no fui de la época me derrito cuando veo sus videos. No puedo imaginarme si lo viera de frente... Agradezco a Dios por Elvis Presley el hombre más talentoso y hermoso que ha caminado por este planeta.
Its really astonishing. A dirt pore little family, one twin still born and buried in a shoe box, the other becomes this stunning, talented man. Famous all over the world to this day.
Ohhhhhhhh. Si que maravilloso comentario siento lo mismo. Gracias amor
I. Read. Elvis. Would. Buy. 13 cars. And. Give them. Away. Kind.
Gosh he's so darn charming, even though there's no sound.
I can't help but smile and melt! 😍
He just had one of the most kind, caring, loving faces I have ever seen.😁😁♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
It's lovely to be able to see Elvis with his mum and dad ❤ beautiful people. God bless them.
Just 5 months after this video was filmed His mother GLADYS PRESLEY passed away - in August 1958 - -
Bless Elvis for a shy man this must of been hard for him with all the cameras around
I would like to take this opportunity to say something to Elvis that I have never said. Thank you Elvis Presley for your service to our country. I am sorry that you left us at such an early age but wherever your at I hope that you are at peace. I feel like you are with your King. Love you and miss you always 💕
My God why you're so handsome elvis 😍
Yes, ELVIS was so damn handsome and sexy, not from this world!
As an Army vet that was on tanks, always cool to see footage like this. What is even cooler is, Elvis looked and acted the same way we all did when we went into the service. Just a guy,a little scared of the unknown, doing his duty as an American.
Yeah, like "what am I getting into?"
poor Gladys & poor Elvis they are so going to miss eachother so much she is putting on a brave face. so glad to be able to see this
Aww you can see his mom’s sadness and worry that he’s going off to army life
Wow, at this date and time, its almost the anniversary of this film clip, almost 63 years ago this March 24, in two days from this March 22, 2021. I bet anyone there could not have ever been able to imagine or fathom that we would be watching their film in the year 2021. Truly amazing how times flies folks.
Yo la acabo de ver en el año 2023. 26 de julio
En algo más de 15 días hará 46 años de su triste fallecimiento.
Gracias por compartir.
Elvis Presley, ÚNICO E IRREPETIBLE. EL REY POR SIEMPRE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Yeah, ain't it funny... how time slips away. 🎶
Everytime I lay eyes on Elvis Presleys beautiful smiley face . 😁😁😁 I just become hypnotised over and over again.he just completely takes my breath away over and over again 🥰🥰♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Susan Slater: I know exactly what you mean 💙🇦🇺
Yes, mee too! I can't take my eyes of him! This beautiful face and the way he look and walk , i 'm total in love with him! The most handsome man on Planet!
Nunguem quer saber
I believe this footage is probably the last of Elvis together with his mother alive.
This is probably the only footage of Elvis with his Mum and Dad together apart from that brief moment he kisses his Mum goodbye from the film This Is Elvis released in 1981. I have been an Elvis fan for 35 years and never seen this footage before.
In the movie Loving You in a dance scene Elvia and both his parents are visible. Also footage of them exist when Elvis played the Tupelo Liveshows in ‘56. So this is not the only footage of them together. But sinde Gladys died a few months after this day, I suppose this could be the last footage as a whole family.
@@letonnyletonny6105 thanks, I forgot about that Tupelo footage even though it was just a few seconds. The footage from Loving You wasn't exactly Elvis together with this parents but I get what you mean. This new footage shows how close Elvis was to his Mother when they look at each other. You can see Elvis is worried about her and Gladys doesn't look well.
That's So Sad but I believe there's footage in Texas at Fort hood w her
He was robbed of time with his ill mother
In my opinion the bit where he gets the medical check up should not have been filmed, it seems too invasive to me. I know Elvis no doubt expected the cameras but I feel it was a private moment
Yeah poor baby....they filmed everything..Nowadays, HIPAA would be an issue because the other guys are coming out on film whether they wanted to or not. The expressions of the guys is funny- you can "hear" all their thoughts through their expressions
Totally AGREE, and have thot so since I saw the pics in a magazine (or somewhere). I don't think the guys on either side of him in the pic I'm thinking of should have been photographed, either, just in their skivvies!!
Embarrassing I would think.
Couldn't agree more... Totally unnecessary n as the daughter of a career military officer I'm shocked they allowed private press on base at all... The military had it's own press corps there... I agree that , even if the military wanted to foster goodwill, being filmed in such an invasive manner was totally inappropriate! I would imagine , maybe not in 1958, but today if this happened ... N I don't think it would, all the other troops filmed would have to give consent to be in the film....
Right a bit too private!!!
Hello from England
Elvis at this point looked so much like Vernon.
What a great rare video of Elvis You just look at this film without the sound and it enraptures you more and Elvis is such a charming young man.
He lives on in all these wonderful videos
hello to Elvis up there in Heaven from your pal forever , Hollywood Joe !
Great footage indeed, although rather intrusive. Glad to see Elvis with his parents.
Greetings from Belgium.
A lot of men there, but not one even a little bit good-looking as Elvis!!! (Except for Vernon!). Must have been hard for them.
Great footage!
Yes, so true! ELVIS is always the best looking man!
Amazing, Still unseen or unheard material surfacing once in a while. A real treat for the fans all over the world. Greetings from Belgium.
OMG, he's soooo charming.
His human side just comes oozing out!
So endearing. 😍
Thank you so very much for this treasure - absolutely wonderful and good to see some footage of Gladys and Vernon, too.
Love him 💖
Cute 😇
I'm sure he hated every minute of this whole entire branding process. I can even feel it from here after over 60 years.
Totally agree, Elvis only ever was a brand though to his master sorry manager. Gladys saw the shark the first time she met him, she was not wrong either. Sharks tug and tug till they pull you under, Elvis never stood a chance.
@@anY-bf9ud it breaks my heart 😣😞😭
Elvis had to join the army or he was going to go to jail, he was arrested and his manager parker made a deal with the judge that if he didnt put elvis in jail, he will join the army ,,Elvis was actually court ordered to join the army or go to jail
@@kay8698 No evidence of what you just wrote. Why would Elvis go to jail? If he was threatened it was just that a threat, but would not been able to stay in jail as he had done nothing wrong.
@@kay8698
ok, so if you know so much what was the charge then?
Are you going to tell me the US Army would say they drafted him when they didn't?
I doubt that.
He was a very loving, upstanding guy, but they couldn't have conspired to keep that kind of thing a secret.
Somebody would have leaked a copy the court order out over the years.
He got drafted, period.
Great footage, I have never seen before. Thank you greetings from Greece
@Theodora Kazantzidou
Me neither :)
Γειά σου οατρηοτησα... συμφωνώ μαζί σου❤
Great footage! Poor Elvis he kinda looked a little scared and his mom looked so worried and sad! God bless him for his service at a time when he was having so much success in his career! ❤❤❤
Looking back, I think going into the Army then actually helped Elvis' career. Not sure Elvis' popularity would have kept up at the same level had he never been drafted.
A good pt you make about his acceptance of being drafted during success. Not to paint too broad a brush, but not sure I can picture successful baby boomer, Gen X, Millennial, or Gen Z types giving it all up to complete two yrs of military service?
Poor Elvis I felt bad for him messed up his whole life from then on and his mom😒
Great footage, can't of been easy for Elvis with all those cameras around, or the other men either .
No need for cameras during his physical exam though, the press sure wanted their pound of flesh, literally.😮 😮😮😮😮
Vernon the proud father and Gladys who looked gorgeous, her too so proud yet you see in her eyes her worry for Elvis. Elvis appearing to take it all in his stride, ready to serve his country yet no doubts harbouring many fears himself underneath that infectious smile.
I thot his mother looked as if her life was ending, right then and there. Vernon is proud of his son. But cannot protect him any longer.
Poor Gladys. She did not look well at all. Mind you, they did say she was really worried about Elvis.
Didn't realize how much Elvis looked like his Dad.
Gladys was unhappy long before this. According to what I read, close friends said as soon as Elvis became even partially famous, she was never happy a day after that again. All she wanted Elvis to do was stay home close to her and not go out and perform.
Elvis, esplêndido e um exemplo de determinação!
Elvis, forever...
Уважаю творчество и гениальность Элвиса Пресли!Спасибо тебе 20 век за такого великолепного музыканта!Привет из Москвы!25.09.2023г.❤
Magnifique commentaire. Salutations d'Algérie.
Iconic footage....
Love to see this video Elvis honored his country
Fantastique document ! Très émouvant avec ses parents 7:32 :( Merci !
GRATA PELAS IMAGENS. EM TRÊS ANOS MUDANÇAS DRÁSTICAS NA VIDA DE ELVIS E DOS PAIS. MAS COUBE A ELVIS O MAIOR QUINHÃO. FOI UM VENCEDOR!
He is so damn humble, he is shy getting so much attention. Elvis could have gotten out of going into service, but he wanted to serve his country. I personally wish he wouldnt have gone for personal reasons, we would have had more music, he might have had a serious acting career. His hair made him 2 inches taller. Dont cut it off. Poor guy getting photographed everywhere he turns.
Thank You ! !
He's face radiates from the joy of life. Excellent recording of his lovely, careful parents as well. It's kind of flashback. Gorgeous video. Thanks for sharing.✌👑👼🌹❤
Mi amor toda tu vida fuiste maravilloso
My Gosh, I have never seen a soldier that looks like Elvis. He looks like a Hollywood Greek God.
He did, that's the biggest mystery for me about Elvis, where the hell did he get those looks from because to me he did not look like a normal human being, no human has such a perfect shaped nose, cheekbones, eyes/brows, chin etc, and it doesn't matter if you're black, white, caucasian, chinese, indian, etc, everyone has a flawed face, but he didn't, his face was like a work of art sculpted from stone. It's like he wasn't human or was of a different race of human that we don't know about. Elvis is often likened to a greek god of the statues of Apollo, but they were supposedly myths, but looking at Elvis with his striking resemblance to them it makes me wonder whether they actually existed. But how do two random white American's people produce a child that grows up to look like a statue of a greek god? lol.
Fenomenal extraordinário raridade vídeo do rei do rock mundial
Toda tu vida fuiste un gran Rey talentoso y maravilloso
Ele estava com os pais.. meu Deus o Elvis Não Para ele é elétrico 🎻🎻🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🥀🎙🎙🥀🥀🎤🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸🎸🎸🥀🥀🥀🥀
Great !!
Elvis Presley: A True Red Blooded American.
Thanks.. 🙏🙏🙏🙏.
Que alegría que le acompañaros sus padres y su mamina no separaban de el cuanto amor se tenían están gozando todos juntocos
Junticos
He must of hated it every little thing them taking photo bless him ♥️
J’adore comme il dévisage le gars à 3:51 😊
Unreal!
Elvis est un brave homme. Il aurait pu éviter le service militaire.
Il à fait au grand bonheur de ses ennemis.
Le magnifique Elvis !
De l'Algérie nous lui rendons hommage et paix à son âme.
Brilliant! Thanks for posting
US 3th armoured division "Spearhead" was Elvis's Division. Patton's proud boys.
Uma jogada de marketing do cel.parker, não sei como funciona nos EUA,mas Elvis era filho único e arrimo de família
Man all those cameras on him as he stands there in his underwear 😳 poor guy. Love him forever 🔥🥵❤️😇🎶
Hi from Wales! Same comment as for the other video you've posted - Fantastic footage - too bad there's no sound along with it. It's still great when true 'rare' footage turns up. I would guess the majority hasn't been seen since the day it was filmed.
There is sounds in parts of it.
@@Seanryan2001 thanks Sean. I'll replay it
Grazie per questi Filmati
9:30 look at his beautiful face
Mom Gladys very worried (and with good reason)
for her son, this is more serious
than "a fight with a machete!... ♡ ღ😃🌺 ヅ ♪♫ • 🇨🇷
Poor Elvis not know at this moment that not too long after this day his Mother will pass away.
Exactement vrai.
I've seen many Elvis docs on TV, and they always show footage from the army induction, but they never show the footage shown here. All they show are the usual familar shots of Elvis holding his hand up, having his hair cut and a few shots in uniform carrying a bag.
This whole thing is so awkward lol. Glad most people only saw the pictures. The raw footage is painful to watch lol.
could have filmed the liveshows in the 50s more in depth like that
I could just stare at him for days. When people said he was fat....he was actually sick and dying, but when I looked at him, I remember he was once this guy and I never saw him in a negative light.
C etait le meilleur moyen de lui briser sa carrière de chanteur même s ils lui ont permis de sortir un album durant son service militaire .Après la mort de sa mère tout n était pas comme avant .
I agree the poor man, did not had a private moment, once he became famous. It shouldn't be like that. Look what happened to Princess Diana, cause they wouldn't leave her alone.
Elvis was offered the chance to go into the army as an entertainer but turned it down, he wanted to serve his country like every other conscript. How many of today's much lesser stars would have taken the easy way out.
I thought it was because Col. Parker didn't want him to sing without being paid.
RIGHT!!!
Elvis had to join the army or he was going to go to jail, he was arrested and his manager parker made a deal with the judge that if he didnt put elvis in jail, he will join the army ,,Elvis was actually court ordered to join the army or go to jail
His mother had definitely issues. She looks always sad, depressed and smiles really rarely. Elvis on the other hand, seemed to enjoy his first day in the army, although at times he 'd prefer some privacy. Thank God for us fans the paparazzi didn't bother and showed no sensitivity😜
It's amazing... WOW... Love from Istanbul... :)
Mama did NOT look happy.
It appears he was the only one who's parents came.
Normally no one else is allowed in there but the inductees and the staff. So his family was the only ones allowed in.
You have to give up the most important thing in your life: Privacy...the word is not in military protocol.
My favorite singer is Elvis Presley and can you do a video of him for me in the army
Patriot
Nui de joaca !!!
Man, I would have hated to have my MEPS experience filmed for a national audience.
They would’ve had a very dramatic scene of me fighting with the detailer for 2 hrs to get the job I wanted.
@@leinonibishop9480 Lmao! What branch and job were you?
@@eddieperez8111 i was in the navy and i was an aviation electronics tech (AT). they always try to fill the crappy jobs first so they started off with cook or hull tech or something stupid and i said, 'are you kidding me? did you look at my asvab scores??" they then offered me the nuclear program but i held out for aviation electronics. worked on helicopters and fighter jets on the flight deck. it was glorious.
He's probably thinking "Am I going to get any privacy?!"
Been thru this. More traumatic then depicted here. Lot of yelling and ordering.
Interesting footage, but man oh man, let's ease up on the cameras during the physicals!
I can't believe the Army allowed all this foolishness. My dad was in Arkansas when he got there and they cleared everyone out of the chow hall to take pictures, although he apologized.
WOW!!
Elvis had to join the army or he was going to go to jail, he was arrested and his manager parker made a deal with the judge that if he didnt put elvis in jail, he will join the army ,,Elvis was actually court ordered to join the army or go to jail
@@kay8698 He was drafted and did his duty. There is an entire book by one of the officers who was in his unit, Dr. William Taylor: Elvis in the Army, written in 1995. He was a good soldier.
One of those Men was Ginger Alden’s Father!
When i went to army no one came
Elvis being Drafted into The Army probably wasn't too good for his mom's health.
Sa maman est tellement triste.
C'était la cause de sa mort. Les gens sont injustes !
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This is so humiliating for him. I am glad they don't have draft anymore. We should have the freedom to choose to fight these unjust wars or serve in any way in the military. This whole ordeal took his life down a different path. He would be dead in 19 years.
Males are still required to register for the draft currently they just haven’t had to activate it and call anyone up since then. They still could though.
Elvis had to join the army or he was going to go to jail, he was arrested and his manager parker made a deal with the judge that if he didnt put elvis in jail, he will join the army ,,Elvis was actually court ordered to join the army or go to jail
@@kay8698 I read dozens of books on Elvis and never ever heard of this. Its sounds made up. I have been a fan since he was alive. When making wild claims like this, please provide a link, or some kind of evidence. Where or when was he arrested? He was drafted.
@@kay8698 That is the way the new Elvis movie tells it but it's not actually true. He was never forced to choose between jail or the Army.
Elvis had to register for the draft at 18 like everyone else and then he got called up for duty. He probably could've gotten a deferral, because he was the primary breadwinner for his family and his fame caused a lot of problems while he was in the Army, but he decided to go ahead and serve his time like everyone else.
You know it wldve been much better if he was not filmed joining up as it mustve made it even more awkward for him
Elvis had to join the army or he was going to go to jail, he was arrested and his manager parker made a deal with the judge that if he didnt put elvis in jail, he will join the army ,,Elvis was actually court ordered to join the army or go to jail
Is there’s a reason why Elvis was drafted into a Army?
Just like everyone young man
Elvis taki młodziutki, normalny , to wojsko bylo niepotrzebne, zmieniło mu zycie , niepotrzebnie poznał Priscille, miał już Ann- Marget swoją ukochana, matka nie zmarłaby z troski o Elvisa, nie zaczęłyby sie tabletki,wojsko to jego przekleństwo, niepotrzebne, niedobre.
There's a version of this video w music that makes it funnier
Elvis is All posing like a Movie Star😂
Silent movie.
Bravo! Well spotted.
His mom, is not happy at all, that his going to be gone for 2 years.
😆😆😆😆😆😆
Great movie thank🎉🎉🎉who made thecamera?? Is he still alive???🎉🎉🎉🎉
Wasn’t the war over by ‘58?
Vietnam War 1955 - 1975
It was ☮️time No active war🙄
Folks do you see how different his nose is there than when he came back from Europe? He had a nose job.
He got the nose job way before he went in the army
What kinda idiot sends a superstar to serve in the military! if this is not a conspiracy, then what is its name! They just wanted to stop Elvis by all way, everything that happened to Elvis after that was because of the compulsion that they imposed on Elvis, even the death of his mother, because she became more sick and died, God damn them.
@Rose Hoary
Elvis wanted to serve his country. Whatever that means.
It was the draft. Millions of men were drafted at the time, including my own father. It wasn't a conspiracy. Sheesh.
@@Violetbunnyfish your father wasn't the first international super star! He served his country with his art and still do.
@@lechat8533 I didn't think so. He had to, but because of his patriotism and humility he served like another soldier without any special privileges. At a time when there was no war against the country, sending a national asset to military service has no necessity or meaning other than burning opportunities and destroying his career .
@@rosehoary8906it didn’t hurt his career, in fact it made him seem more heroic and less like a punk so people respected him more. And he might have wanted to serve just like the other guys but that is a ridiculously impossible idea. Normally military inductions are not filmed and your family can’t be there with you. So he already was getting special treatment. Part of his entourage went to Germany with him and he said in interviews that he couldn’t go out because the fans were just as crazy over there. Any kind of normal life was long gone for him by this time.
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