USMC 100390 : "The story of black cats"

Item Description
Title
USMC 100390 : "The story of black cats"

Citation information
USMC 100390 : ""The story of back cats"" . United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
BY

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100390

Decade
1940

Description
U.S. Navy produced industrial incentive film outlining the activities of PBY Catalina night fighter, Black Cats, operating in the South West Pacific under the command of Commodore Thomas Combs and Captain Peck. The initial flight is successful, but the Navy cameraman aboard in wounded. Maintenance crews repair the PBY to prepare it for its next mission. The planes are loaded with ordnance. The film then focuses on the crew briefings and the mission flown by six PBYs, one of which is shot down during the mission.

Location(s)
Unknown

Producing entity
United States. Navy (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed in 1943 or 1944.

Air Wing
Fleet Air Wing Ten
Fleet Air Wing Seventeen


Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
B&W

Original audio
Sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Postive

Original physical length
720

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
04/30/2018

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

Digital runtime
20:00

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II