USMC 103493: Marine Corps Recruit Depot, activities ca 1929

Item Description
Title
USMC 103493: Marine Corps Recruit Depot, activities ca 1929

Citation information
USMC 103493: Marine Corps Recruit Depot, activities ca 1929. (HQ-16-218; R-1-1; v.2.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
2416

Marine Corps Library Number
2168-16

Additional identifiers
HQ-16-218; R-1-1; v.2

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 103493

Decade
1930

Date
1930

Description
Retirement service for an NCO including band, Color Guard, and motorized artillery pass in review. Trucks and armored tractors pull artillery. Marine officers, including base commander Brigadier General Robert Henry Dunlap, compete in a polo match. Footage of Dunlap's quarters. Dunlap's wife sits by a pool and then walks with Dunlap.

Location(s)
San Diego (Calif.); Balboa (Calif.)

Camera crew
Unknown

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Brigadier General Dunlap served as the commander of the Marine Corps Base at San Diego from January 25, 1930 to December 26, 1930.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
B&W

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Negative

Original physical length
209

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
12/8/2020

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

Digital runtime
5:49

Digital file type
video/H264