USMC 100786: ""Fort Churchill Springboard for Science""

Item Description
Title
USMC 100786: ""Fort Churchill Springboard for Science""

Citation information
USMC 100786: ""Fort Churchill Springboard for Science"". United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
13/4726/1

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100786

Decade
1950

Date
1957

Description
Activities by Army engineers at Fort Churchill in Canada for the International Geophysical Year. Shots include the clearing of land, building the base, putting together rocket launchers, and rockets actually launching to test different aspects of the atmosphere.

Location(s)
Fort Churchill (Churchill, Manitoba, Canada)

Camera crew
United States National Committee for the International Geophysical Year

Producing entity
White Sands Signal Agency, United States Army (Production unit)

Genre
Informational

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Sound

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
10/08/2018

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

Digital runtime
11:40

Digital file type
video/H264