USMC 101640: Baseball on Marshall Islands

Description: 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