USMC 103418: Santa Claus at Quantico, 1953

Item Description
Title
USMC 103418: Santa Claus at Quantico, 1953

Citation information
USMC 103418: Santa Claus at Quantico, 1953. (Q-16-426; R-1-1.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/2543

Marine Corps Library Number
2128-16

Additional identifiers
Q-16-426; R-1-1

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 103418

Decade
1950

Date
1953-12-23

Description
A crowd assembles in front of Little Hall to watch the arrival of a HRS-1 helicopter. An unidentified Naval Commander and an unidentified Colonel greet Lieutenant General Clifton B. Cates (commandant of Marine Corps Schools). Santa Claus exits the HRS-1 and walks with Cates and to the crowd. Santa Claus, Cates, unidentified officers, Marines, and the crowd enter the theater. Above repeated from the view of a second camera.

Location(s)
Quantico (Va.)

Camera crew
R.L. White; C.V. Passela

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Filmed on December 23, 1953.

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
167

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.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
11/18/2020

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

Digital runtime
4:39

Digital file type
video/H264