USMC 100226: SATS airstrip, overview

Item Description
Title
USMC 100226: SATS airstrip, overview

Citation information
USMC 100226: SATS airstrip, overview. (MH-9546A; R-3-27.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/2436

Marine Corps Library Number
3594-16

Additional identifiers
MH-9546A; R-3-27

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100226

Decade
1960

Description
Outtakes and trims from unidentified film project on SATS airstrip. Includes views of SATS construction and graphics outlining the benefits of SATS systems. Older footage of Navy Seabee units (5th Brigade, 25th CB) constructing airstrips is cut into the modern footage. F8s and A4s shown operating on an airstrip.

Location(s)
29 Palms (Calif.); San Bernardino (Calif.)

Camera crew
Gordon; Knechtel

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Filmed at various times, including in the 1960s.

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
02/14/2018

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

Digital runtime
13:10

Digital file type
video/H264