USMC 100658: Anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile systems

Description: Item Description Title USMC 100658: Anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile systems Citation information USMC 100658: Anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile systems . United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 10/3105/1 Marine Corps Library Number 0000-16 MIRC inventory no. USMC 100658 Decade 1970 Description Silent film documenting multiple anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile technologies. Marines site and deploy missiles from shoulder-fire systems including the M47 Dragon and anti-tank rocket launchers. The systems are filmed up close, as well as the missiles as they are deployed and multiple tanks as they explode. Film also depicts a missile deploying from an aircraft, an animated demonstration of a shoulder-fire system, Marines loading and deploying heavy artillery and an anti-aircraft missile deploying from the ground, destroying an aircraft in the air. Film closes with Marines boarding CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters which take off from an aircraft carrier, and Assault Amphibious Vehicles disembarking a ship and heading towards an unidentified shore. Location(s) Unknown Producing entity United States Marine Corps (Production unit) Genre Documentary Film date (note) Filmed after 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 140 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 08/06/2018 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye. Digital runtime 4:23 Digital file type video/H264