USMC 100530: Welcome Home Parade for General Geiger

Item Description
Title
USMC 100530: Welcome Home Parade for General Geiger

Citation information
USMC 100530: Welcome Home Parade for General Geiger. United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
10/3129

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 100530

Decade
1940

Date
1945

Description
A "Welcome Home" parade for Lt. Gen. Roy Stanley Geiger. He and others in dress uniforms move through a crowd and climb into convertibles. Footage follows the parade, including horses, marching bands, Marines marching with rifles, boy scouts, high school students and a Navy Mothers Group. Location is most likely his hometown of Pensacola, where Geiger returned briefly in 1945.

Location(s)
Pensacola (Fla.)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Negative

Original physical length
300

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. For further information please contact Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
06/19/2018

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye.

Digital runtime
12:33

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II