USMC 104631: ""Wide Wide World"" combat training

Description: Item Description Title USMC 104631: ""Wide Wide World"" combat training Citation information USMC 104631: ""Wide Wide World"", combat training. (Q-16-576; R-1-1.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 01/104 Marine Corps Library Number 2993-16 Additional identifiers Q-16-576; R-1-1 MIRC inventory no. USMC 104631 Decade 1950 Date 1957-05-12 Description Combat training (operation ""Wide, Wide World"") is undertaken at the ""E-4"" range at MCS, Quantico. Two jets fly low over a field with M47 tanks in view. A HRS helicopters gear up for flight in an airfield. HUS and HRS helicopters fly in formation. A HR2S and HUS lands and drops equipment. Marines put together a mortar and prepare to fire. M47 tank rolls by the camera. Marines participate in combat training, firing M14 rifles. Further artillery combat training continues. Explosions go off in the background as helicopters fly by. Marines exit HR2S and and run across a field. Location(s) Quantico (Va.) Camera crew J. R. Nelson; Beeney (Sgt) Producing entity United States Marine Corps (Production unit) Genre Documentary Squadron HMX-1 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 345 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. Digital media type Moving Image Date digital file created 04/22/2022 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation 6.5k Digital runtime 9:41 Digital file type video/H264