U.S. Navy: Black Death--handout

Description: Item Description Title U.S. Navy: Black Death--handout News Story Number WLTX-TV News Story 7 Sound or Silent Silent Contributing Institution University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections Digital Collection Local Television Newsfilm Collections Collection Name WLTX-TV News Collection Date 1967 Decade 1960 Temporal Coverage Filmed in 1967 Content Description Various scenes of United States Navy men spraying village / hamlet with insecticide. Various scenes of navy men trapping rats, carrying to laboratory to test for Bubonic Plague. Various scenes of Pharmacist Mates giving shots / innoculations to villagers for cholera. Handout from United States Navy. See script file. Color print is visibly faded. Geographic Location Vietnam. Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975. Plague. Medicine. Cholera. United States. Navy. Contributor Name USN (2550 - 68 - 1) WNOK 0000 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. Donor WLTX-TV Physical Format Film: 16mm. Silent. Color. Reversal: positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Silent. Acetate. Citation U.S. Navy: Black Death--handout. (WLTX-TV News Story 7.) WLTX-TV News Collection. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. Time Period Civil Rights Era (1955-1969) Type Moving Image Format video/H264 Media Type Motion pictures (visual works) Run Time 01:20 Digitization Specifications This standard definition .h264 video is an access copy derived from a captured videotape master of a film original. Date Digital 2017-08-07 Website https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/local-television-newsfilm-collections/