USMC 108924: NATO Operation Bold Guard/Northern Wedding

Item Description
Title
USMC 108924: NATO Operation Bold Guard/Northern Wedding

Citation information
USMC 108924: NATO Operation Bold Guard/Northern Wedding. (012-16-70-78; R-3-61; 12-1784.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/3675

Marine Corps Library Number
8824-16

Additional identifiers
012-16-70-78; R-3-61; 12-1784

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 108924

Decade
1970

Date
1978-09-06

Description
Marines participate in NATO joint exercises, Operation Bold Guard/Northern Wedding. In Fairhead, Scotland; Marines move on a hilltop. In Germany aerial views document CH46s in flight, troops disembarking CH46s in a field. A German LCU backs from a beach. Views of Hawk Missile Battery and LVTP7s along the beach. CH46s and CH53s idle and park in a field. On the Shetland Islands, Dutch Marines string barbed wire. Trucks and jeeps leave their staging area.

Location(s)
Fairhead (Scotland); Germany; Shetland Islands (Scotland)

Camera crew
Maloney; Johnson, P.E.

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Shetland Island section filmed 1978-09-09

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
02/15/2023

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

Digital runtime
11:20

Digital file type
video/H264