USMC 108593: ""Demolition Training"" and Raising the Colors

Item Description
Title
USMC 108593: ""Demolition Training"" and Raising the Colors

Citation information
USMC 108593: ""Demolition Training"" and Raising the Colors. (121-16-5-77; 012-16-22-77; R-1-1; 8-1885.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/3465

Marine Corps Library Number
8607-16

Additional identifiers
121-16-5-77; 012-16-22-77; R-1-1; 8-1885

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 108593

Decade
1970

Date
1977

Description
Reel contains two separate subjects. First ""L"" Company 3/7 participates in demolition training at Camp Pendleton (CA) on the 3rd of March, 1977. Explosions go off. Marines load and fire TOW from a jeep. USMC Maj. gives a briefing on LVTP7s to USN and USMC officers. UH1N helicopter takes off. M60 tanks move over rough terrain. USMC 2ndLt. gives a lecture on demolition. Views of explosions and detonations. A Marine works on the engine of a car.Second, on the 8th of February, 1977; Marine MPs raise the morning colors at Lejeune Hall in Quantico (VA).

Location(s)
Camp Pendleton (CA); Quantico (Va.)

Camera crew
Roderick; Maloney

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
First subject filmed on 03/03/1977. The second subject is filmed on 02/08/1977.

Division
1st Division


Regiment
7th Marines


Battalion
3rd Battalion


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
425

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.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
01/23/2023

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation 6.5K

Digital runtime
12:08

Digital file type
video/H264