- Title: F-6609
- Summary: THE BIG PARTY: MARDI GRAS, NEW ORLEANS
- Description:00:33:33 - MONTAGE PARADE, PAPIER MACHE MASKS, HUGE CROWN JEWELS, FLOATS, COSTUMES, MASSIVE CROWD, CLOWNS 00:34:05 - NEW ORLEANS CITYSCAPE SEEN FROM HARBOR, PORT OF NEW ORLEANS, RIVER BOATS CIRCA 1947 00:34:20 - LS PAN CITY BUILDINGS, JACKSON SQUARE, STATUE OF "OLD HICKORY" ANDREW JACKSON 00:34:44 - DINERS IN RESTAURANT WITH FIRE PLACE & CANDLES 00:34:56 - SCENIC BEAUTY SHOTS, SPANISH MOSS TREES LONG FESTOONS DRAPING BRANCHES. SUICIDE OAK TREES, MASSIVE OLD OAK TREES 00:35:12 - "CITY OF THE DEAD". ABOVE GROUND CEMETERIES, DEAD INTERRED IN SURFACE VAULTS. CU GRAVESTONE 00:35:25 - MONTAGE FRENCH QUARTER CIRCA 1947. WROUGHT IRON BALCONIES, NAPOLEONIC STREET LAMPS, NARROW WINDING STREETS, PATIOS, COURT YARDS 00:35:53 - AT BIG FEAST BEFORE LENT, OLD COSTUMES ON DISPLAY ROBES LAVISH PAGEANTRY 00:36:10 - "SECRET SOCIETY" MARDI GRAS PLANNERS LOOKING AT DRAWINGS FOR FLOATS, MINIATURE DIORAMA SHOWING PLANS FOR FLOAT, STAGE SETTING FOR BALL. VARIOUS MOTIFS THEMES MYTHOLOGY, HISTORY, THE ARTS 00:36:45 - ARTISTS MAKING FLOATS, SETS, PAPIER MACHE MASKS COSTUME DRAWINGS ARTIST DRAWING COSTUMES SEAMSTRESSES MAKING COSTUMES, WOMEN SEWING, TAILOR FITTING THE "KING" OF MARDI GRAS IN COSTUME 00:38:16 - "QUEEN" OF MARDI GRAS BEING FITTED IN GOWN, SILK, SATIN, SEQUINS, TIARA 00:38:56 - ARMED GUARDS TAKING COSTUMES IN ARMORED CAR TO SECRET PLACE UNTIL MARDI GRAS 00:39:22 - CU PAN PAPIER MACHE MASKS ON WALL. PAINTER ARTIST MASK MAKER PAINTING MASKS 00:39:48 - WOMAN ARTIST PAINTING CLOWNS BETTY FINTON. OLD 1940s TELEPHONE 00:39:59 - PAINTERS ON SCAFFOLDING PAINTING MARDI GRAS SETS IN STREETS 00:40:10 - ERECTING GRANDSTANDS IN FRONT OF CITY HALL 00:40:17 - CU INVITATIONS TO BALLS, COMMITTEE SENDING INVITATIONS TO MASKED BALLS 00:40:41 - TRAIN COMING INTO NEW ORLEANS STATION, PASSENGERS, TOURISTS, COMING, WALKING ON PLATFORM. BLACK PASSENGERS, BLACK MIGRATION. AFRICAN AMERICANS. 00:40:54 - CU MONTAGE VARIOUS STATES LICENSE PLATES, TAGS 00:40:57 - BUSY CITY STREETS AS TOURISTS SCRAMBLE FOR PLACES TO STAY, ACCOMODATIONS. BUSY HOTEL LOBBY 00:41:17 - MONTAGE FRENCH QUARTER RESTAURANTS CIRCA 1947 00:41:34 - 200 YEAR OLD "NIGHTCLUB" ABSINTHE HOUSE WALLS FILLED WITH PAPERS FROM TOURISTS. TABLE FILLED WITH PEOPLE DRINKING PINT GLASSES OF DRINKS WITH 7 OR 8 STRAWS IN THEM 00:42:02 - SPILLER ANTIQUES STORE CURIOS FOR SALE. TOURISTS WINDOW SHOPPING 00:42:13 - MERCHANTS BOARDING UP SHOP WINDOWS PRE-MARDI GRAS PREPARING FOR REVELLERS 00:42:20 - CU PROCLAMATION BY THE KING OF MARDI GRAS 00:42:26 - NIGHT SCENES OF NEW ORLEANS, FIRST NIGHT OF MARDI GRAS, ST. CHARLES STREET. "HERMES" FLOAT THROWING TRINKETS TO SPECTATORS 00:43:40 - MONTAGE MARDI GRAS MASKED BALL, KING & QUEEN OF THE BALL ENTER. REMEMBERING EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN & EMPRESS CARLOTA OF MEXICO 00:44:23 - THE "CALL OUT" RITUAL, WOMEN GUESTS NAMES CALLED OUT TO DANCE WITH MASKED MEN 00:44:51 - STAGE HANDS TAKING DOWN ONE SET & PUTTING UP ANOTHER SET 00:45:05 - ACTORS GETTING DRESSED IN COSTUMES, HELPED INTO COSTUMES. 00:45:24 - BALL OF KNIGHTS OF BABYLON, LAVISH COSTUMES, CROWNS. CREWMEN OF THE ROYAL COURT DANCING FOR AUDIENCE. BALLROOM DANCING , DEBS DANCING WITH MASKED MEN 00:46:30 - CU OPENING BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE, POPPING THE CORK. CU POURING CHAMPAGNE INTO GLASSES. KING MAKING CHAMPAGNE TOAST 00:46:46 - PARADE OF REX, LORD OF MISRULE, MIGHTY KING. HS CROWDS GATHERED ON CANAL STREET, WIDE STREET. MONTAGE PARADE Medieval PAGEANTRY FAT TUESDAY 00:48:13 - CU LITTLE BOY EATING COTTON CANDY 00:48:16 - MONTAGE PARADE, COSTUMES, SPECTATORS IN COSTUME DOG IN COSTUME. CU MAN WITH FOUR EYES, EYES PAINTED UNDER EYES, TWO CIGARETTES IN HIS MOUTH 00:48:50 - YOUNG GIRL DRESSED AS SCARLETT OHARA ASLEEP IN 00:48:55 - HS STREETS FILLED WITH CARNIVAL GOERS 00:49:01 - CATHEDRAL BELLS RINGING SIGNALING CURFEW, END OF MARDI GRAS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1947
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: F-6609