| Children's Historical & Fantasy Pageant, c. 1920s | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6223 |
| Catalog #: | 368619 | |
| Clip Number: | 368619-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON342A | |
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| Location: | Great Britain | |
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| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | AGE GROUP/CHILDREN: Pageant | |
| Description: | Pageants. A children's summer outdoor extravaganza w/ historical & fantasy themes. Also deaf boys. Looking over heads of spectators down to large field below; group of boys in shorts and shirts build a human pyramid. Then CU shot of group of young (c. age 8 or 9)boys in matching suits; probably school uniforms; laughing and goofing around; but carrying on their conversations in sign language. Group from a school for deaf-mutes; attending this pageant as spectators? Cut to pageant. Kids dressed in historical costumes of various sorts: Romans; Vikings; etc. They run around and around in circles. Later; a fairy tale scene of many little girls dressed as woodland spirits or fairies; in flowing white dresses; some with wings on their backs. They are sitting around on the grass; some of them petting someone in a costume of a donkey or horse; w/ a wreath on its head. Finally they all go skipping along 2 by 2 in a procession. There is even a black child here; not surprisingly walking behind a white girl carrying her train. Entertainment; theatre; disabilities | |
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