USMC 110890: ""Youth physical fitness: a competition everyone wins""

Item Description
Title
USMC 110890: ""Youth physical fitness: a competition everyone wins""

Citation information
USMC 110890: ""Youth physical fitness: a competition everyone wins"". (MH-11622.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
10/3356

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
MH-11622

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 110890

Decade
1970

Date
1976

Description
This information film showcases the Marine Corps Youth Physical Fitness Program. Program director Byron Johnson describes the program while participants from Cranberry Area Junior Senior High School in Seneca, PA demonstrate proper form for various exercises. Teenagers participate in regional finals at Penn Hills High School in Penn Hills, PA and at the national championship at Marine Barracks Washington. 8th and I Commandant's House is visible in background while participants compete on barracks field. Current participants and Cranberry High wrestling coach Jim Crowley, a former participant, explain the program's benefits. National championships conclude with a trophy ceremony and an awards banquet, where the Color Guard performs. Participants and coaches attend evening parade at 8th and I.

Location(s)
Seneca (Pa.); Penn Hills (Pa.); 8th and I (Washington D.C.)

Camera crew
Milner-Fenwick, Inc.

Genre
Informational

Film date (note)
Filmed in 1976.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Positive

Original physical length
650

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
07/10/2023

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

Digital runtime
19:27

Digital file type
video/H264