USMC 100721: ""Big tough and fast: the Sikorsky CH-53A""

Item Description
Title
USMC 100721: ""Big tough and fast: the Sikorsky CH-53A""

Citation information
USMC 100721: ""Big tough and fast: the Sikorsky CH-53A"". United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
10/3280/1

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100721

Decade
1960

Description
Employment and capabilities of the CH-53A helicopter also known as the ""Sea Stallion."" Scenes show Marines testing it out, including in simulations, and the Sea Stallion in flight carrying heavy objects.

Location(s)
Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Vietnam; North Carolina; Canada; California; Naval Air Station Patuxent River

Producing entity
Sikorsky (Production unit)

Genre
Informational

Film date (note)
Filmed after 1966.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Positive

Original physical length
280

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
Content may be protected by copyright.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
09/06/2018

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

Digital runtime
7:03

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
Vietnam War