USMC 110850: ""The leading edge"" aviation training

Item Description
Title
USMC 110850: ""The leading edge"" aviation training

Citation information
USMC 110850: ""The leading edge"": aviation training. (MH 8599.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
10/3289/1

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
MH 8599

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 110850

Decade
1950

Date
1958

Description
This film tells the fictitious story of college students attending Marine Corps aviation training as members of the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders, Aviation program. Officer candidates attend two six-week training sessions at MCS Quantico and Naval Air Station Pensacola. A narrator describes the program while the film shows enrollees receiving classroom, field and flight instruction.

Location(s)
Quantico (Va.); Naval Air Station Pensacola (Fla.)

Camera crew
Atlas Film Corporation

Genre
Informational

Film date (note)
Produced in 1958.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
B&W

Original audio
Sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Positive

Original physical length
680

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
07/07/2023

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

Digital runtime
19:19

Digital file type
video/H264