Report on the M-16 rifle--outtakes

Description: Item Description Title Report on the M-16 rifle--outtakes News Story Number WIS-TV News Story 67-667 Sound or Silent Sound Contributing Institution University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections Digital Collection Local Television Newsfilm Collections Collection Name WIS-TV News Collection Date 1967-05-17 Decade 1960 Temporal Coverage Filmed on May 15, 1967. Content Description Closeup of M-16 rifle as it is fired in single shot and full automatic modes. Medium shot of soldier and reporter Jerry Pate at Fort Jackson. Medium shot Pate gives facts about rifle and states that there have been reports of its jamming. Asks Sergeant Larry S. Geiser[?] about this, who says that if properly cleaned, it does not jam. More facts about rifle are given and about its usefulness in Vietnam. Various scenes of target practice with the rifle. Geographic Location Columbia (S.C.) Subject Fort Jackson (S.C.) Soldiers--United States. M-16 rifle. Creator Name WIS-TV (Production unit) Rights Copyright Moving Image Research Collections. All rights reserved. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC 29208. Physical Format Film: 16mm. Sound. Color. Reversal: positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Magnetic. Acetate. Citation Report on the M-16 rifle--outtakes. (WIS-TV News Story 67-667.) WIS-TV News Collection. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. S.C. County Richland County (S.C.) Time Period Civil Rights Era (1955-1969) Type Moving Image Format video/H264 Media Type Motion pictures (visual works) Run Time 02:15 Digitization Specifications This standard definition .h264 video is an access copy derived from a captured videotape master of a film original. Date Digital 2016-06-03 Language English Website https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/local-television-newsfilm-collections/