USMC 104693: Con Thien

Item Description
Title
USMC 104693: Con Thien

Citation information
USMC 104693: Con Thien. United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/122/1

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 104693

Decade
1960

Date
-05-14

Description
Marines fire M19 mortars from trenches in Vietnam. Daily life in the trenches. C130 aircraft flies overhead before airdropping supplies. An LVTP-5 rolls past the screen with many marines hitching a ride on top. A young marine places peanut butter on a cracker and eats it. Another listens to a record and reads the paper. LVTH-61 mounted with 105mm howitzer fires. US Army Green Berets sit beside a Marine officer, all observing the front before the Marine speaks into a radio.

Location(s)
Con Thien (Vietnam)

Camera crew
Della Puca, L. C.

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed in May of 1967 or 1968.

Division
3rd Division


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
400

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
05/03/2022

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation 6.5k

Digital runtime
11:01

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
Vietnam War