USMC 101390: Vieques (Puerto Rico) Maneuvers

Item Description
Title
USMC 101390: Vieques (Puerto Rico) Maneuvers

Citation information
USMC 101390: Vieques (Puerto Rico) Maneuvers. (2D-16-78; R-3-6.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/1576/1

Marine Corps Library Number
0390-16

Additional identifiers
2D-16-78; R-3-6

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 101390

Decade
1940

Description
Marines load supplies and themselves on and off ships, and receive instruction. Ships shown include USS Okanogan APA-220, USS Vermillion (AKA-107), and USS Cambria (APA-36). L. O. Hatzell is one Marine that is specifically shown. LCVPs are loaded on beach, and local civilians move about the island, transporting goods. Officers are in the Officers club, and planes and helos fly over the island.

Location(s)
Vieques, Puerto Rico

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Filmed in the late 1940s.

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
350

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
03/26/2019

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

Digital runtime
12:29

Digital file type
video/H264