It's a little known fact that, of the 3,287 parades that took place in the United states of America in 1905, a Thomas Edison cameraman was on hand to capture the action in all but two of these events. A by-law actually made it illegal for parades to commence before the Edison man arrived, and participants in the Little Valley Thanksgiving Day Parade were forced to wait fourteen hours when Edison's cameraman failed to alight from his train at the Little Valley Railway Station after imbibing a quart of bourbon and sleeping through to Big Valley, more than two hundred miles down the line.
OK, I made all that up, but there isn't really much to write about this film. The early filmmakers were so desperate for material that they did tend to film a lot of parades. They were all filmed with the object of capturing one small portion of the action rather than attempting to capture a flavour of the entire affair.
This parade was shot from a street corner which means that we get very little idea of its' scale. Men ride by on horseback clutching bouquets of flower, and cloth-capped tykes mingle with the parade. Strangely, the final, seemingly unrelated, scene sees a man in robes emerging from a church and jauntily tipping his hat at the camera before walking off-screen.
OK, I made all that up, but there isn't really much to write about this film. The early filmmakers were so desperate for material that they did tend to film a lot of parades. They were all filmed with the object of capturing one small portion of the action rather than attempting to capture a flavour of the entire affair.
This parade was shot from a street corner which means that we get very little idea of its' scale. Men ride by on horseback clutching bouquets of flower, and cloth-capped tykes mingle with the parade. Strangely, the final, seemingly unrelated, scene sees a man in robes emerging from a church and jauntily tipping his hat at the camera before walking off-screen.
