USMC 104638: Summer training Cruise in California

Description: Item Description Title USMC 104638: Summer training Cruise in California Citation information USMC 104638: Summer training Cruise in California. (00190.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 05/1049 Marine Corps Library Number 0000-16 Additional identifiers 00190 MIRC inventory no. USMC 104638 Decade 1950 Description Opening title card: "Summer Training Cruise". A group of marines exit the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve training center. They are bussed to an airfield where a C54 plane waits for boarding. The marines file on board. An animation indicates their travel from Chicago, IL to the Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA. Marines in service uniforms pass a Japanese landing craft. A sailor and a Navy Lt. have a discussion outside of a nondenominational Christian chapel. Young marines sit on the ground in tactical gear as they receive a lecture from an officer in service uniform. They perform drills, simulating the exiting of a ship onto an LVT for landing exercises. Target practice performed with M1 rifles under the instruction of a master sergeant. Marines fire 81mm and 60mm mortars in a trench. Ranking marine delivers direction to onlookers about an M-2 flame-thrower before a demonstration. US Pacific Fleet Navy band marches and plays with as marines march, rifles in hand. The USS Pender County (LST-1080) floats in the background as marines rest on the beach. An animation indicates change of location to San Clement Island. Upon a hill, marines overlook the island's coast. A group of marines watch through binoculars as what appears to be a fletcher-class destroyer fires onto the shore. Aircraft dive-bomb targets as marines observe. Marine band plays as they parade past other uniformed personnel. Location(s) U.S.M.C. Reserve Training Center (Chicago); US Naval Amphibious Base (Calif.); San Clemente Island (Calif.) Camera crew Blank, E. E. Producing entity United States Marine Corps (Production unit) Genre Documentary Film date (note) Filmed over during the summer months of the first half of the 1950s. Regiment 2nd Marines Squadron VR-5 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 575 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 04/26/2022 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation 6.5k Digital runtime 16:05 Digital file type video/H264