Santa Claus Parade Rolls Down Broadway Christmas Parade (1914 1919)

Santa Claus parade rolls down Broadway Christmas parade. Santa Claus Parade in New York City, on Broadway. Title says All newest animals and freaks from Christmas land come early. Opens with CU of giant balloon head w, big painted on teeth; attached to a long balloon caterpillar; floating over camera. People walking and hanging onto ropes underneath it; with faces painted like clowns, one sticks face up by cam. as he passes. LS spectators. Giant man (on stilts) approaching; marching band behind him he walks over the camera Another balloon animal horse; w, rider. Shot of crowd; w, the huge caterpillar worm thing passing over them. GV street filled w, people the giant caterpillar rises straight up vertically into air and floats upward; pan up as it floats up to sky; past rooftops. LS crowd, pan. Then a weird shot of the caterpillar; in sky; now in distance moving around. looks like a tadpole in the sky. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV