USMC 103517: General Holcomb home movies

Genre: home movie

Description: Item Description Title USMC 103517: General Holcomb home movies Citation information USMC 103517: General Holcomb home movies. (HOLCOMB #00306.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 08/2611 Marine Corps Library Number 0000-16 Additional identifiers HOLCOMB #00306 MIRC inventory no. USMC 103517 Decade 1920 Date 1929 Description Home movie footage associated with the life of Thomas Holcomb who commanded the Marine detachment in Beijing (Peking, China from August 1927 to February 1930). Scenes of the Marble Boat at Wan Shou Shan, a funeral on Hatamen street, the Ming tombs with the Davis, Moses, and Curtiss famillies, the horse races at Pao Ma Chang, Marines passing in review, the Forbidden City, horseback riding, the Great Wall of China at Nan Kou pass, Marines drilling, and the Leifeng Pagoda. Location(s) China; Beijing (China); Hangzhou (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 1012 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 16:52 Digital file type video/H264