USMC 101245: Iwo Jima mining and airfield operations

Item Description
Title
USMC 101245: Iwo Jima mining and airfield operations

Citation information
USMC 101245: Iwo Jima mining and airfield operations. (3D-16-114; R-1-1.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/767

Marine Corps Library Number
0486-16

Additional identifiers
3D-16-114; R-1-1; v.1

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 101245

Decade
1940

Date
1945-3-16

Description
Landscape from mine refinery to town of Motoyama on Iwo Jima. Map showing the same. B-29s (including the B-29 "Anne Garry III" of the 6th Bomb Group) land at Airfield No. 2, soon after its opening. Sunrise with gun and Marine.

Location(s)
Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan)

Camera crew
G. R. Handley

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed March 16th and 17th, 1945.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Positive

Original physical length
104

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
08/20/2019

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

Digital runtime
3:23

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II