USMC 110868: ""The Way to the Capitol""

Item Description
Title
USMC 110868: ""The Way to the Capitol""

Citation information
USMC 110868: ""The Way to the Capitol"". (MH-11189; 10647; 16/76.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
16/76 (?)

Marine Corps Library Number
0000-16

Additional identifiers
MH-11189; 10647; 16/76

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 110868

Decade
1970

Date
1972

Description
This documentary film tells the story of North Hagerstown High School students who, as Marine Corps Fitness Program participants, compete in the 1972 Marine Corps Youth Physical Fitness Championship at Marine Barracks Washington (8th and I). Hagerstown coach, Jim Brown, and other athletics personnel narrate. USMC Drum & Bugle Corps performs and the Marine Corps Assistant Director of Personnel speaks during opening ceremonies. The Home of the Commandants is visible in the background as boys participate in physical fitness contests. Members of the top three high school teams, Ramsey (New Jersey), DeWitt Clinton (Bronx, New York), and West (Bakersfield, California), receive trophies. Ralph Cobb, President of Post Division, General Foods Corporation, and John B. Kelly, President of Amateur Athletic Union, speak at the awards banquet. Cobb and Earl E. Anderson, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, award trophies. Before leaving Washington, D.C., North Hagerstown students visit the War Memorial Monument and other attractions.

Location(s)
Hagerstown (Md.); Marine Barracks (Washington D.C.); 8th and I (Washington D.C.)

Camera crew
Manno, George (Screenwriter); Monumental Films & Recordings, Inc.

Genre
Public relations

Film date (note)
Produced in 1972.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Sound

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Positive

Original physical length
510

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
Public domain.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
07/08/2023

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation 6.5K

Digital runtime
15:10

Digital file type
video/H264