USMC 105396: Ordinance testing

Item Description
Title
USMC 105396: Ordinance testing

Citation information
USMC 105396: Ordinance testing. (AWPS-37; R-1-1; 57-0084.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/2152

Marine Corps Library Number
3336-16

Additional identifiers
AWPS-37; R-1-1; 57-0084

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 105396

Decade
1960

Date
1961-01-27

Description
Compilation reel of various subjects. Demonstration of a typewriter and electronic equipment. Marines drive construction equipment through a field. Marines transport an M98 HOWTAR, then fire multiple times. An M113 APC transports a howitzer. Marines drive an M561 Gama Goat through snowy conditions. Air suspension watercraft (aka hovercarft) demonstration. Close-ups of a Marine wielding a flamethrower and a Marine demonstrating gear.

Location(s)
Camp Pendleton (Calif.); MCAS Quantico (VA)

Camera crew
Rhoads, R.F.; Wright (Lt); Shipp, H.L.; Beebe

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Equipment tests

Film date (note)
Third and final footage taken on the 9th of May, 1961.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Negative

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
07/09/2022

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

Digital runtime
10:24

Digital file type
video/H264