Summary

Footage Information

Sherman Grinberg
Pathe
7479
SR004251_07_01.mov
1/1/1934
Cape May, NJ baby parade
A woman pushes a baby in an antique baby buggy, "Miss 1884" / A little girl swings on a float as a man pushes her / A girl in a skirt on her float / The parade on a broad street with lots of space between the floats; two boys and a dog, and a girl in front of an 'organic' house / Two blond girls with hair bows and sausage curls take places at desks 294 & 295 with a blackboard behind them / Women wrapped in a large sheet "Quintuplets" (referencing the Dionne quintuplets) and a man gives a couple of sips from a baby bottle / A fat and happy baby boy sits on a lifeguard chair "CMB Patrol" / A girl poses in a antebellum gown, hat, and parasol; another struts forward (Mae West impression), and a girl in a sequined peacock costume / A man crowns a girl, her 'court' on a windy float with foliage behind them; a close-up of them / A boy and his young son in an angel outfit / An elaborate stage with the queen and her attendants; the cupid boy picks up the lid to the large silver trophy, looks inside and all laugh / Note: Exact month/day not known
United States
New Jersey
Cape May

Keywords

archival
newsreel
babies
parades
mothers
children
floats
costumes
dogs
cupids
trophies
queens
crowns
Dionne quintuplets
baby carriages
Mae West
peacocks
contests
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