USMC 107795: ""TOW Troop Test""

Item Description
Title
USMC 107795: ""TOW Troop Test""

Citation information
USMC 107795: ""TOW Troop Test"". (P-16-010-68; R-1-1; 8-2008.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
14/654

Marine Corps Library Number
8009-16

Additional identifiers
P-16-010-68; R-1-1; 8-2008

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 107795

Decade
1960

Date
1968

Description
Tests of the TOW anti-tank guided missile. Slow-motion views of explosions and TOW missiles firing from tripod mounts and vehicle mounts.

Location(s)
29 Palms (Calif.)

Camera crew
Beasley (GySgt); DePascale (Sgt)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Equipment tests

Film date (note)
Filmed between 1968-02-20 and 1968-03-04

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
500

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
11/05/2022

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

Digital runtime
13:32

Digital file type
video/H264