USMC 106300: ""Air Test Drop""""Amphibious Truck""

Item Description
Title
USMC 106300: ""Air Test Drop""""Amphibious Truck""

Citation information
USMC 106300: ""Air Test Drop"", ""Amphibious Truck"". (Q-16-38-68; Q-16-171-69; R-1-1; 55-1299.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
BY

Marine Corps Library Number
6788-16

Additional identifiers
Q-16-38-68; Q-16-171-69; R-1-1; 55-1299

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 106300

Decade
1960

Date
1968-03-29

Description
CH53A helicopter performs several air drop tests. Amphibious truck tests. Marines test an amphibious truck in open water.

Location(s)
Quantico (Va.)

Camera crew
Jones; Fatta; Vandergrift, P.F.

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Equipment tests

Film date (note)
Amph. truck test 7th of November, 1969

Squadron
HMX-1


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
08/27/2022

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

Digital runtime
11:21

Digital file type
video/H264