COLUMBIA — For researchers, documentarians, military veterans — or just about anyone who wants to get an up-close, real-life glimpse at what the major wars of the United States looked like on a day-to-day basis — the United States Marine Corps film repository in the University of South Carolina’s Moving Image Research Collection could be the next best thing to being there, and it will soon be as close as your computer.
On May 25, the university officially cut the ribbon on the collection's Lt. Col. James H. Davis Film Vault and the John S. Davis Scanning Center, which together will allow USC to both store and digitize 18,000 films, totaling some 1,800 hours, documenting Marine Corps operations from World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, as well as peacetime training and public relations activities. Over the next two years, this archive will gradually become permanently available on the internet.
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