Reel Number: 221460-17
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1949
Country: USA
Location: Alabama,Birmingham,New York City,NYC
TC Begins: 06:26:08
TC Ends: 06:28:34
Duration: 00:02:26
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Title: Birmingham Opens Holiday Season (also, Macy 1949 Thanksgiving Day Parade) 06:26:13 Marching band w/ baton twirling majorette leading, seen from middle of street. Christmas floats pulled by clowns, boys, Santa Claus float. Marching band & majorettes. Adults floats of southern White history. No Blacks seen. 06:27:14 Int. w/ King crowning Queen, posing. Swish pan... 06:27:32 Police on horseback leading marching unit, balloons in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Milton Berle, Grand Marshall, waving in American Revolution costume. CU of balloon; MS of floats. Dancing dogs. Clown balloon. Black & White kids sitting on sidewalk. Puppeteer on float; balloons. Animated reindeers on float passing Trans-Lux Broadway Newsreel Theater Americana; 1949; Southern Segregation;