USMC 104638: Summer training Cruise in California

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