USMC 102819: ""Operation Timber"" with the Korean Service Corps

Item Description
Title
USMC 102819: ""Operation Timber"" with the Korean Service Corps

Citation information
USMC 102819: ""Operation Timber"" with the Korean Service Corps. (1D-16-502; R-1-2.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/607

Marine Corps Library Number
1708-16

Additional identifiers
1D-16-502; R-1-2; v.1

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 102819

Decade
1950

Date
1952-07-04

Description
Korean Service Corps members chop down trees while 1st Engineer Battalion Marines supervise in the Chongsan-Myon area. At the Munsan-Ni railhead, Koreans transfer logs from train cars to trucks.

Location(s)
Chongsan-Myon (Korea); Munsan-Ni (Korea)

Camera crew
J. W. Sage (TSgt)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed July 4th-8th, 1952.

Division
1st Division


Battalion
1st Eng. Bn.


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
350

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
01/27/2020

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

Digital runtime
8:21

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
Korean War