USMC 103523: General Holcomb home movies

Genre: home movie

Description: Item Description Title USMC 103523: General Holcomb home movies Citation information USMC 103523: General Holcomb home movies. (HOLCOMB #00312.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. USMC History Division inventory no 08/2604 Marine Corps Library Number 0000-16 Additional identifiers HOLCOMB #00312 MIRC inventory no. USMC 103523 Decade 1920 Date 1927 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 shot in 1927 of a marmot, the Carp couple, Vancouver Sound, the Empress hotel in Victoria (B.C.), the SS President Pierce leaving port in San Francisco Bay, boating, Waikiki Beach in Honolulu (H.I.), Diamond Head on O'ahu, an unidentified Naval officer aboard a ship, street scenes and landscapes of Kobe (Japan), Ma and Li in front of Holcomb's quarters in Peking, the Legation guard swimming pool, Ta Pei Ssu, Pao Ma Chang racecourse, Nan Yuan racecourse, Frank's birthday party, and horseback riding. Location(s) Victoria (B.C.); San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.); Honolulu (Hawaii); Kobe (Japan); Beijing (China) Producing entity United States Marine Corps (Production unit) Genre Amateur (home movies) Film date (note) Filmed at various times in 1927. 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 429 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 12/15/2020 Digitization information High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye. Digital runtime 11:56 Digital file type video/H264