Tampa (Gasparilla Pirate Festival) 1959 archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker in Tampa in 1959 It contains stock footage of the Gasparilla Pirate Festival: beauty queens and congressmen parading on convertible cars, women dressed like pirates marching, floats sponsored by Tampa’s business and rode by men and women in costumes and swimsuits, children marching during Gasparilla Children’s Parade, and […]
Peru 1960s: The Country Fair archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker visiting Peru, probably in 1967 It contains stock footage of a country fair, probably held in the area of Lima: visitors watching sheep and llamas in their boxes, a man showing a cow with its flower-adorned collar, breeder showing his sheep after a beauty contest, an orchestra playing […]
Aruba 1950s: The carnival parade archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker in 1957 in Aruba, an island that was and still is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands It contains stock footage of a carnival parade: people wearing costumes and masks marching and playing music, floats, the Queen of Carnival (Reina di Carnaval) standing on a carousel, and […]