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The University of South Carolina Libraries’ Moving Image Research Collection holds 18,000 reels of Marine Corps footage. 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These films have been digitized as the country marks Wednesday’s 75-year anniversary of the beginning of the battle.<\/p>\n \u201cSocieties go through great transitions where they have to allow big seismic events to slip permanently and irretrievably into the past,”\u00a0said Greg Wilsbacher, the curator of newsfilm and military collections at UofSC’s Moving Image Research Collection, “where first person accounts are no longer possible and the memories of anyone that lived through it are gone. We\u2019re at that stage at a global level for World War II.”<\/p>\n The United States Navy and Marine Corps landed on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945 and eventually captured the island off the coast of Japan from the Imperial Japanese Army. While most Americans recognize the iconic image of the flag being raised on Iwo Jima, Wilsbacher said the digitization process revealed images that had never been seen before. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ll see the same set of images from different places over and over again,” Wilsbacher said. \u00a0\u201cYou\u2019ll see the same set of images at Iwo Jima. It gives us the impression that there weren\u2019t many films taken during the battles, but we know that there were over 50 combat cameramen on the island.\u201d<\/p>\n The films are part of a larger collection of reels shot by Marines between World War II and the 1970s, which are stored in the university\u2019s U.S. Marine Corps Film Repository.<\/p>\n The MIRC stores Marine films, given to them by officials at the Marine base at Quantico, Virginia, in a temperature-controlled vault.<\/p>\n \u201cWe actually built this vault especially for the Marine Corps collection because when we knew we were taking the collection in, which is about 18,000 cans of film, obviously we didn\u2019t have room in our old vault,\u201d said Lydia Pappas, interim director of the MIRC.<\/p>\n The process to preserve and digitize these films is time intensive, but UofSC has the resources to power through the grueling process.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have student interns who come every semester to work on these films. They have contributed hundreds of hours to this project and that\u2019s a big part of the story is the work that USC students are doing to help us move forward on this,\u201d Wilsbacher said.<\/p>\n Time is crucial in the digitization process because the film won’t last forever.<\/p>\n \u201cFilm\u2019s kind of like people; eventually it\u2019s going to go away. It\u2019s a lot of temperature control stuff, checking the film every once in a while. A lot of the film, you can tell if it\u2019s going because it gets a really strong vinegar smell,\u201d said Tanner Klessens, a senior media arts major at UofSC and an intern at MRIC.<\/p>\n Making these films from Iwo Jima accessible connects people from the past to their modern-day counterparts.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is important for us to look carefully at this documentation to see the Marines as individuals a lot like us, Americans, a lot like us,\u201d Wilsbacher said. That includes black Marines who may have been overlooked in photo histories of Iwo Jima.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Montford Point Marines were black Marines, segregated units, trained in Montford Point, North Carolina. We have a surprising quantity of footage of African American Marines on Iwo Jima taking part in the battle. I think that is some of the most important material that is in some of this footage,\u201d Wilsbacher said.<\/p>\n These films become the primary historical documents.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of this material is straight out of the camera, this is exactly what was shot,\u201d Pappas said. \u201cIf you watch any of the Marine Corps footage, it is stunning. Some of it is beautiful color, but at the same time you\u2019re seeing all kinds of carnage. It is the raw stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 1″ src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IwoJimaP2-1.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.2″ custom_margin=”||2px|” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”slide” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 1″ _builder_version=”4.2″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_font_size=”12px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”8px|||2px” custom_padding=”|||”]<\/p>\n Greg Wilsbacher, curator of newsfilm and military collections at MIRC, explained the importance of digitizing old Marine Corps film to make them easily accessible.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 2″ src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IwoJimaP3_CS-1.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.2″ custom_margin=”||2px|” custom_padding=”|||” animation_style=”slide” box_shadow_style=”preset2″ box_shadow_horizontal=”4px” box_shadow_vertical=”4px”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption 2″ _builder_version=”4.2″ text_font=”|600|||||||” text_font_size=”12px” text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”8px|||2px” custom_padding=”|||”]<\/p>\n Lydia Pappas, interim director of the MIRC, stands in front of the temperature-controlled vault containing many old film reels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image 3″ src=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IwoJimaP4_CS-1.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” 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