USMC 100407: "Sea Power - Launch all Aircraft"

Item Description
Title
USMC 100407: "Sea Power - Launch all Aircraft"

Citation information
USMC 100407: ""Sea Power - Launch all Aircraft"". 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

Additional identifiers
MN-8530

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100407

Decade
1950

Description
Imagined scenarios of a carrier task force's role in a limited nuclear war. Narration provides an incident by incident account of the three-day operation. Carrier combat air patrol aircraft intercept incoming heavy bombers but two nuclear bombs are dropped near the task force, resulting only in minor radiation exposure to a destroyer. US forces bomb military targets with nuclear weapons. On day three, Marine amphibious forces invade.

Location(s)
Unknown

Producing entity
Reid H. Ray, Film Industries, Inc. (Production unit)

Genre
Public relations

Film date (note)
Filmed in the early 1950s.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Postive

Original physical length
600

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
Unknown

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
16:10

Digital file type
video/H264