USMC 101936: Activities on USS Gilbert Islands

Item Description
Title
USMC 101936: Activities on USS Gilbert Islands

Citation information
USMC 101936: Activities on USS Gilbert Islands. (AVN-16-184; R-5-7.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/1077

Marine Corps Library Number
0902-16

Additional identifiers
AVN-16-184; R-5-7; V.2

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 101936

Decade
1940

Date
1945-06-25

Description
VMF-512 Pilots in briefing room, showing and discussing flight paths on maps. Shellback/King Neptune ceremony as ship crosses the equator. Officer's party with baseball on the beach on Samar Island. Aerial shots of convoy and island. F4U Corsairs landing on deck.

Location(s)
Samar Island

Camera crew
Bushnell; Blunk; Davidge

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed June 25th through early July, 1945.

Squadron
VMF-512


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
04/10/2019

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

Digital runtime
11:27

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II