A researcher just found a long-lost film of the 1898 Mardi Gras Parade, the oldest-known footage of New Orleans:
A Researcher Just Found a Long-Lost Film of the 1898 Mardi Gras Parade, the Oldest-Known Footage of New OrleansA still from a recently-rediscovered 1898 film of a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. Courtesy of the Eye Filmmuseum.
The two-minute film shows throngs of gussied-up spectators watching as a series of lavish floats—one of which contains a live ox—pass by. After that, the snippet may be included in the museum’s permanent Mardi Gras display, according to Wayne Philliops, curator of its Carnival collections. “It’s just too important to lay aside and not share with our visitors,” he told nola.com.
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