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The 363rd Regiment Returns (1919)

1919 · Ephemeral film · 5 min

Synopsis

San Francisco's own 363rd Regiment comes home from World War I: the ferry pulls into the pier, Mayor Rolph and other dignitaries greet it, and the regiment parades up a garlanded Market Street to City Hall before some of the 450,000 people who turned out.

Synopsis, reviewed

Details

Running time
5 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives
Internet Archive item
0642_Gould_can_5314_--_Extra_1_10_36_49_20

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Mystery Man · Spuzz · 2014-06-14

The description doesn't match the movie, so I'm left wondering who the guy is. He seemed to be quite big in WWI (I'm guessing so, since there's lots of soldier folk around him). Any clue of who he is?