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NOS News•today, 09:53
Film Mardi Gras (1898) found in the Netherlands in the national film list of the US
Footage of a parade in New Orleans found in the Netherlands has been included in the US National Film Registry. The Mardi Grass Carnival , made in 1898, is the oldest film of the carnival celebration and was discovered this year in the collection of the Eye film museum.
In the footage, just under two minutes long, a colorful procession with several floats moves through the streets of New Orleans. The footage was found when the Louisiana State Museum was looking for its oldest record for an exhibit about the folk festival.
That turned out to be a 68mm film from one of Eye's oldest collections, the archive of an American newsreel. It had already been preserved in 1998, but then no one realized how unique the statue was. Eye hopes that now that the other approximately 200 films from this archive are being digitized, even more special images will be discovered.
Mardi Grass Carnival shows how exuberant the party was already celebrated at the time:
Mardi Gras Carnival 1898
The film is included in the National Film Registry because the American Library of Congress considers the recordings special. Each year, 25 films are selected for that list that are of great "cultural, historical or aesthetic importance to the national film heritage".
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whoa! it looks awesome! ah, if one only could hear the sound there, it must have been incredible...
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hahahahaha mad heidi killing fascists looks like fun....
btw... does this cast member get a lot of screen time?
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