USMC 111124: 1970s recruiting film with additional Vietnam footage

Item Description
Title
USMC 111124: 1970s recruiting film with additional Vietnam footage

Citation information
USMC 111124: 1970s recruiting film with additional Vietnam footage. United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
14/1109/1

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 111124

Description
This recruitment film shows recruits participating in boot camp, becoming Marines, and reuniting with loved ones. Reel also includes footage of Marines in Vietnam clearing a landing space for a medivac helicopter and thenloading a casualty in a gurney and into a UH1E Huey of VMO-6. A CH46 Sea Knight is shown.

Location(s)
Unknown

Genre
Public relations

Film date (note)
Recruitment film dated 1970 or later because of Lynn Anderson song "Rose Garden." Additional footage dated 1976 or earlier because of VMO-6.

Squadron
VMO-6


Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent and sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
1st section is positive; 2nd section reversal/positive

Original physical length
214

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
07/25/2023

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

Digital runtime
6:11

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
Vietnam War