USMC 103514: General Holcomb home movies

Item Description
Title
USMC 103514: General Holcomb home movies

Citation information
USMC 103514: General Holcomb home movies. (HOLCOMB #00303.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
08/2608

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
HOLCOMB #00303

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 103514

Decade
1920

Date
1929

Description
Home movie footage associated with General Thomas Holcomb who commanded the Marine detachment in Beijing (Peking, China from August 1927 to February 1930). Scenes of various modes of transportation, the children's race in the Hunt Gymkhana, the summer camp at Pei Tai Ho, horseback riding, a polo match, a party for Admiral Charles B. McVay Jr., and officer William H. Rupertus and a Marine identified as Brooks talking.

Location(s)
China; Beijing (China); Beidaihe District (China)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Amateur (home movies)

Film date (note)
Filmed in 1929.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
B&W

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Reversal: Positive

Original physical length
996

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
Content may be protected by copyright.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
1/11/2021

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

Digital runtime
16:36

Digital file type
video/H264