USMC 103521: General Holcomb home movies

Item Description
Title
USMC 103521: General Holcomb home movies

Citation information
USMC 103521: General Holcomb home movies. (HOLCOMB #00310.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
08/2602

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
HOLCOMB #00310

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 103521

Decade
1930

Date
1931

Description
Home movie footage associated with the life of Gen. Thomas Holcomb from 1931. In New York, scenes of Lake Champlain, Fort Ticonderoga, and the Au Sable Chasm. Scenes around Walnut Hill and New Castle (Delaware area) include Stonum, Immanuel Church on the Green, the "colored boy" hitching post at Walnut Hill, the Amstel House, the Rodney House, an antique shop, the Green and Orange Street, and domestic life. In Maryland, scenes of the Pao Ma Chang (boat) and the ship graveyard in Solomons.

Location(s)
Au Sable (N.Y.); Walnut Hill (Del.); New Castle (Del.); California (M.D.); Lake Champlain (N.Y.); Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.)

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Amateur (home movies)

Film date (note)
Filmed in 1931.

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
366

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
10:10

Digital file type
video/H264