Mummers Parade Aka Hummers Parade (1926)
Philadelphia, United States of America, Title: MUMMERS PARADE. Thousands of comic costumes at Quaker City s gorgeous Annual Festival. L, S of parade of people in fancy dress dancing down a wide city street. M, S of a procession of people dressed as convicts with pretend balls and chains. L, S of a group of people in elaborate headdresses holding a large banner horizontally. M, S of a person wearing an enormous headdress and cloak stretched out on wire (looks like a costume from the Notting Hill Carnival ). Intertitle: . .. and in Pasadena the City of Roses the Annual Festival is a rare Pageantry of Beauty. M, S of crowds standing on either side of a palm tree lined street, girls dressed in white dressed pass on a carnival float decorated with greenery. M, S of another float passing, this time covered in flowers, men and women in white costumes carrying staffs walk alongside. M, S of a woman in white waving from the front of another float decorated in leaves. Various shots of an
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