USMC 104761: ""The Fleet that Came to Stay""

Item Description
Title
USMC 104761: ""The Fleet that Came to Stay""

Citation information
USMC 104761: ""The Fleet that Came to Stay"". (00067.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
03/779

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
00067

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 104761

Decade
1940

Date
1945

Description
A combat pictorial film on the battle for Okinawa. Featured is wartime correspondent Ernie Pyle and footage of Kamikazi pilots.

Location(s)
Okinawa (Japan)

Camera crew
Hatch, Norm; Boetticher, B.; Pyle, Ernie

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
B&W

Original audio
Sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Postive

Original physical length
750

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

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

Digital runtime
21:41

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
WWII