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

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