USMC 101640: Baseball on Marshall Islands

Item Description
Title
USMC 101640: Baseball on Marshall Islands

Citation information
USMC 101640: Baseball on Marshall Islands. (AVN-16-53; R-1-3.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/716

Marine Corps Library Number
0720-16

Additional identifiers
AVN-16-53; R-1-3; v.1

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 101640

Decade
1940

Date
1945-01

Description
Baseball game held on Ross Field; scenes show an African-American Marine serving as home base umpire. Location unspecified but is the location of the Fourth Marine Air Wing office of Public Relations. Marines on DUKWs and and rubber craft swimming with women present. African-American band with troops marching behind. Two radar installations are shown: and SCR-270B and an SCR-527 (mobile).

Location(s)
Marshall Islands.

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Air Wing
MAW-4


Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Reversal: Positive

Original physical length
350

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
08/03/2019

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

Digital runtime
11:33

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II
Montford Point Marines