USMC 100637: Montagnard recruits train in Vietnamese highlands

Item Description
Title
USMC 100637: Montagnard recruits train in Vietnamese highlands

Citation information
USMC 100637: Montagnard recruits train in Vietnamese highlands. (#235 .) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
10/3040/1

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
#235

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100637

Decade
1960

Description
Green Berets train members of the indigenous Montagnard minority group from the northern Vietnamese highlands during the Vietnam War. Footage shows male and female Montagnard recruits standing at attention, learning to assemble and carve blades, sew garments with sewing machines and shoot rifles from the prone position. Film concludes as the Montagnard troops march out on patrol.

Location(s)
Central Highlands (Vietnam)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Training

Film date (note)
Filmed between 1965 and 1975.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Reversal: Positive

Original physical length
80

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
08/07/2018

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

Digital runtime
2:34

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
Vietnam War