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Earliest known footage of New Orleans surfaces after decades-long search [1]

['Rusty Blazenhoff']

Date: 2022-07-07

This remarkable film clip of New Orleans was shot in 1898 and, not surprisingly, it's from a Mardi Gras parade.

Arthur Hardy, long-time publisher of Mardi Gras Guide magazine, had nearly given up the search for the footage after spending decades looking for it, according to Smithsonian Magazine.

And voila! Earlier this year, the nearly two-minute NOLA footage turned up at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. It's both the earliest film of New Orleans and of the city's Mardi Gras.

Behold!

This year's parade theme was "Harvest Queens."

Incidentally, the world's first Christmas movie was also shot in 1898.

(Neatorama)

screengrab via Eye Filmmuseum

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