USMC 105245: ""Tank Flotation""

Item Description
Title
USMC 105245: ""Tank Flotation""

Citation information
USMC 105245: ""Tank Flotation"". (HQ-35-501; R-1-1; 57-0103; 42-58-10.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/2066

Marine Corps Library Number
3265-16

Additional identifiers
HQ-35-501; R-1-1; 57-0103; 42-58-10

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 105245

Decade
1950

Date
1952-03-12

Description
Flotation devices are used to aid an M48 tank in crossing over water. Marines load and harness a large container to the back of a truck for transport. An AD aircraft performs air delivery. A canister's path earthward is tracked from the sky. A fire burns in an open field filled with smoke. An air delivery system project is conducted.

Location(s)
Quantico (Va.)

Camera crew
LaPlante (Sgt); Bloom, R.A. (A/Sgt); Nelson, J.R. (SSgt)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Multiple dates filmed including the 16th of September, 1959 and the 4th of November, 1959.

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
300

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
07/01/2022

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

Digital runtime
8:44

Digital file type
video/H264