USMC 100185: USS Gyatt missile tests

Item Description
Title
USMC 100185: USS Gyatt missile tests

Citation information
USMC 100185: USS Gyatt missile tests. (MC5-062-64; R-1-2; MN-8529.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/2407

Marine Corps Library Number
3567-16

Additional identifiers
MC5-062-64; R-1-2; MN-8529

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100185

Decade
1950

Description
Sequences showing U.S. Navy ships and a carrier USS Philippine Sea (CVE-47) firing 5-inch guns. Slates present indicate that some of the filming might have been for Navy film, MN-8529. Carrier deck is populated with F9F jets. USS Gyatt (DDG-1/DD-712) shown from starboard side with close up of missile launch. One sequence dated "November 5" shows transfer of missiles at sea filmed as part of “Project OAS418.”

Location(s)
Pacific Ocean.

Camera crew
Painter

Producing entity
United States Navy (Production unit)

Genre
Training

Film date (note)
Filmed some time during prior to December 1958 (month decommissioned).

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
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
09/03/2019

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

Digital runtime
13:02

Digital file type
video/H264