USMC 110258: Miscellaneous Footage

Item Description
Title
USMC 110258: Miscellaneous Footage

Citation information
USMC 110258: Miscellaneous Footage. (MH10142-21.) . Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
BY

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
MH10142-21

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 110258

Decade
1970

Date
1965-09

Description
Marines exit LVTPs onto the beach armed with M14 rifles. USMC air traffic controllers go about tasks at El Toro airfield (09/03/1965). Pilots walk alongside A4 Skyhawks and sit in the cockpit. Wives pin wings to their husbands. USMC mechanics perform maintenance on A4s. A4s perform touch-and-gos and CH46 helicopters take off from the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63). Marines double time across the deck to board CH46. Marines march in the barracks. Echo Battery load and fire 105mm Howitzers in Vietnam (June 1970). Women Marines engage Japanese women in conversation in Okinawa.

Location(s)
El Toro (Calif.); Okinawa (Japan)

Camera crew
Simpson (Lt.); Manning, W.; Henderson

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
The first section is filmed 3rd September, 1965. Second section filmed on the 17th of June, 1970

Squadron
HMM-162


Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Positive

Original physical length
700

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


Rights information
Public domain.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
04/26/2023

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

Digital runtime
18:55

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
Vietnam War

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, description, catalog record, video