USMC 103522: General Holcomb home movies

Genre: home movie

Description: Item Description Title USMC 103522: General Holcomb home movies Citation information USMC 103522: General Holcomb home movies. (HOLCOMB #00311.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 08/2603 Marine Corps Library Number 0000-16 Additional identifiers HOLCOMB #00311 MIRC inventory no. USMC 103522 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) from 1929. Scenes of camels, chrysanthemums, officers of the legation guard, the Temple of Heaven, social life, a small boy in the sunshine, Holcomb's racehorse "Delaware", the Forbidden City, the winners of the Lady Aglen Cup, polo, unidentified officers assembling in the grounds of the British Legation for a group photograph, the Royal Scots, horseback riding, a traditional Chinese funeral procession, the Interport paper chase, the Tsin-Pu railroad, Hong Kong and the South China Sea, the grounds of a famous hotel in Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon). LENTICULAR COLOR Location(s) China; Beijing (China); Hong Kong (China); South China Sea; Sri Lanka 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 346 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 12/10/2020 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye. Digital runtime 9:37 Digital file type video/H264