USMC 100661: Bell Helicopter ""cable cut"" equipment tests

Item Description
Title
USMC 100661: Bell Helicopter ""cable cut"" equipment tests

Citation information
USMC 100661: Bell Helicopter ""cable cut"" equipment tests. United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
10/3108/1

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100661

Decade
1970

Description
Equipment technicians in civilian dress test the strength of a Bell Helicopter-manufactured helicopter blade through multiple tests, where layers of thick metal cable are pulled sharply towards the helicopter blade. Up-close footage captures the blade's ability to cut the cables in each test.

Location(s)
Unknown

Camera crew
Bell Helicopters

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Equipment tests

Film date (note)
Most likely filmed in the 1970s.

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
320

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
08/13/2018

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

Digital runtime
10:15

Digital file type
video/H264