USMC 100220: SATS airstrip, MCAS Quantico

Item Description
Title
USMC 100220: SATS airstrip, MCAS Quantico

Citation information
USMC 100220: SATS airstrip, MCAS Quantico. (MH-9546A; R-1-27.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/2434

Marine Corps Library Number
3592-16

Additional identifiers
MH-9546A; R-1-27

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100220

Decade
1960

Date
1963-05-07

Description
Opening sequence filmed from vantage of navigator seat on approach to unidentified runway in a desert setting. Followed by details of equipment. Second sequence shows ground views of SATS takeoff of A-4 at MCAS Quantico. (1 July 1963). Third sequence, dated 7 May 1963, provides an aerial view of the airfield at Quantico as well as detailed views of SATS gear and ordnance engineers. Additional scenes made at unidentified airstrip.

Location(s)
Quantico (Va.)

Camera crew
G. W. Branham; Knechtel; M. A. Smith

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Filmed in May and July of 1963.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Positive

Original physical length
375

Original aspect ratio
1.37:1 (Academy)

Original media type
Motion pictures (visual works)

Language
English

Contributing organization
University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections


Digital collection name
United States Marine Corps Films


Rights information
Public Domain. For further information please contact Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
09/03/2019

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye.

Digital runtime
13:28

Digital file type
video/H264