USMC 109606: ""What's New in the Service""

Item Description
Title
USMC 109606: ""What's New in the Service""

Citation information
USMC 109606: ""What's New in the Service"". United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
10/ 2907/1

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 109606

Decade
1960

Description
I & E Screen Magazine presentation. Segment ""What's New in the Service"" details developments in military science and technology. Dr. Werner Van Braun, director of development operations for the US Army ballistics agency explains the problem of weightlessness in outer space. Discussion of US Air Force experiments with simulated zero-gravity, LUTEX-1 amphibious assault device used to assault land mines, mighty mite jeep. Segment ""A Date with Liberty"" presents historical reenactments to show the story of president Andrew Johnson's impeachment. Segment ""The Last Place on Earth"" discusses missile launch tests at Cape Canaveral.

Location(s)
Unknown

Genre
Informational

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
B&W

Original audio
Sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Postive

Original physical length
750

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
04/04/2023

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

Digital runtime
18:39

Digital file type
video/H264