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

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

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, description, catalog record, video