USMC 100188: USS Canberra at sea

Item Description
Title
USMC 100188: USS Canberra at sea

Citation information
USMC 100188: USS Canberra at sea. (MCS-62-64; R-2-2.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/2408

Marine Corps Library Number
3568-16

Additional identifiers
MCS-62-64; R-2-2

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100188

Decade
1960

Date
1961-2-28

Description
Multiple items combined on reel including a number of fragments at the beginning. First extended sequence shows a picket line of small U. S. Navy vessels of the same type (possibly patrol craft). Second item, dated Feb. 28, 1961, shows the USS Canberra (CAG-2) firing a terrier missile at a KDB-1 drone. Third item, dated April 27, 1958, depict gunnery practice as part of a project (or operation) “Ocean link.”

Location(s)
Pacific Ocean.

Camera crew
B. L. Bennett; Kircher; Cady

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Training

Film date (note)
Filmed in 1958 and 1961.

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
230

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
7:40

Digital file type
video/H264