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Jun 27, 2022 · A museum researcher in the Netherlands has just tracked down a long-lost video of an 1898 Mardi Gras parade—believed to be the oldest-known footage of New Orleans.
Jul 5, 2022 · July 5, 2022. Riders on the Pine Apples float in the 1898 parade Courtesy of the Eye Filmmuseum. After decades of searching for the footage, Arthur Hardy, the publisher of an annual New Orleans...
Jun 19, 2022 · This two-minute snippet, believed to be the oldest existing movie footage shot in New Orleans, will be shown Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Presbytère overlooking Jackson Square. The screening,...
LSU alumna Mackenzie Roberts Beasley has helped uncover a piece of Louisiana history: Long-lost Mardi Gras footage of the 1898 Rex parade.
Jun 24, 2022 · NEW ORLEANS — Recently uncovered footage of New Orleans’ 1898 Mardi Gras parade may be the oldest surviving video ever filmed in the city, multiple news outlets are reporting.
Jun 23, 2022 · The film — considered by experts to be not just the oldest extant footage of New Orleans’ beloved Mardi Gras parade, but also the oldest known footage of anything in the city — was screened...
Dec 18, 2022 · Mardi Gras Carnivalis an 1898 film of the Krewe of Rex rolling through New Orleans. Earlier this year, the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam discovered the oldest surviving film of the parade in...
