USMC 106016: 3rd RLT Returns Home,""Testing LVTPX-12"" Reservist Training

Item Description
Title
USMC 106016: 3rd RLT Returns Home,""Testing LVTPX-12"" Reservist Training

Citation information
USMC 106016: 3rd RLT Returns Home, ""Testing LVTPX-12"", Reservist Training. (P-16-63-69; P-16-65-69; P-16-1001-69; R-1-1; 57-1082.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/2325

Marine Corps Library Number
6441-16

Additional identifiers
P-16-63-69; P-16-65-69; P-16-1001-69; R-1-1; 57-1082

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 106016

Decade
1960

Date
1969-10-27

Description
Three different films. 3rd RLT returns home to crowds of civilians and welcoming faces. BGen. Ross T. Dwyer speaks with USN officers and photographer. Marines pull into port on the USS Bexar (APA-237). An LVTPX-12 is tested over various terrain. Reservists undergo two weeks of training in repair and maintenance.

Location(s)
Unknown; Yermo (Calif.)

Camera crew
Kratofil, P. (Sgt); Huffman; Kissman, C.E. (L/Cpl)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Test filmed the 4th of November, 1969. Yermo filmed August, 1969

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
08/15/2022

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

Digital runtime
11:13

Digital file type
video/H264