USMC 101950: Japanese prisoners on Tarawa

Item Description
Title
USMC 101950: Japanese prisoners on Tarawa

Citation information
USMC 101950: Japanese prisoners on Tarawa. (2D-16-6; R-16-17.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/1326

Marine Corps Library Number
0927-16

Additional identifiers
2D-16-6; R-16-17

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 101950

Decade
1940

Date
1943-11

Description
Ships in convoy with signaling and guns. Marines and filmmakers work on deck. Naval and Marine officers, including Gen. Holland M. Smith, unload from ship onto boat. Japanese prisoners on Tarawa interrogated and searched.

Location(s)
Tarawa Atoll (Kiribati)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Division
2nd Division


Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Reversal: Positive

Original physical length
300

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
08/14/2019

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

Digital runtime
10:38

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II