USMC 100490: "Viet Cong Mines and Booby Traps"

Description: Item Description Title USMC 100490: "Viet Cong Mines and Booby Traps" Citation information USMC 100490: "Viet Cong Mines and Booby Traps". United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no BY Marine Corps Library Number 0000-16 Additional identifiers MH-10379-A MIRC inventory no. USMC 100490, MH-10379-A Decade 1960 Date 1967 Description This 1967 unclassified training film designated for "official use only" instructs Marines on how to best identify and avoid Viet Cong mines and booby traps. Footage includes demonstrations of antipersonnel and anti-vehicle mine detonations, as well as close up depiction of sharpened bamboo man traps, bullet traps, repurposed US explosive device mines, fish line trip-wired grenade mines, noisemakers, buried mortar shells and other electronically or pressure detonated mines and booby traps. Narration urges Marines to stay alert and aware of these dangers by looking for signs of disturbance in the earth, or for signs left for neutral Vietnamese civilians. Narration also urges Marines to leave demolition of mines to trained engineers and demolition. The training film also details where mines and booby traps are most likely to be found: communication routes, foot paths, helicopter landing sites, rice paddy dikes, high grass, arid un-farmable land or foot bridges. Location(s) Vietnam. Producing entity United States Marine Corps (Production unit) Genre Conflict (combat) Item collection United States Marine Corps Film Repository Original color Color Original audio Sound Original gauge Film: 16mm Original generation Release print Original physical length 725 Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 (full frame silent) 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 06/08/2018 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye. Digital runtime 19:55 Digital file type video/H264 Keywords Vietnam War