USMC 100786: ""Fort Churchill Springboard for Science""

Description: Item Description Title USMC 100786: ""Fort Churchill Springboard for Science"" Citation information USMC 100786: ""Fort Churchill Springboard for Science"". United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 13/4726/1 Marine Corps Library Number 0000-16 MIRC inventory no. USMC 100786 Decade 1950 Date 1957 Description Activities by Army engineers at Fort Churchill in Canada for the International Geophysical Year. Shots include the clearing of land, building the base, putting together rocket launchers, and rockets actually launching to test different aspects of the atmosphere. Location(s) Fort Churchill (Churchill, Manitoba, Canada) Camera crew United States National Committee for the International Geophysical Year Producing entity White Sands Signal Agency, United States Army (Production unit) Genre Informational Item collection United States Marine Corps Film Repository Original color Color Original audio Sound Original gauge Film: 16mm Original generation Reversal: Positive Original physical length 400 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 10/08/2018 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye. Digital runtime 11:40 Digital file type video/H264