USMC 100530: Welcome Home Parade for General Geiger

Description: 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