1941 Birch Family Home Video at MDA

Enjoy this 1941 home movie from the Birch Family Archives (via the Univeristy of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections), featuring the Marine Drive Apartments and Bill Birch walking the grounds with his fiance, Phyllis. 

The film came from the Birch family and was originated by Harry and Lucille Birch who lived here beginning in 1941. San Francisco born Harry, who lived from 1895-1968, was a motion picture and television cameraman. He first practiced his art in California and then Chicago where as early as 1917 he worked for the noted local Rothacker Film Co.