A fantastic special, with a lot of wonderful footage of the old parades: particularly the Comus and Venus parades of 1954, the 1941 Rex parade, those 1960s Rex parades with the animations, and the rare Endymion parade from the time when it was still a Gentilly parade and rolled more artistic floats on the streets.
@@WYESTV You bet. I enjoy all these Carnival specials every year. I remember one programme on the art of float building which now seems to have been lost. Perhaps it's time for an updated documentary special, particularly since the introduction of the new foam-sculpting techniques for props now taking the place of the old direct-build papier-mache process.
@@WYESTV I knew that Ed Muniz got his ideas for his Krewe from Bacchus! Arthur Hardy acknowledged that Muniz told him that this was the future of Carnival!
My father Arthur Vigne was King Zulu 1988. He passed away in July 2019. I would love to have footage of the year he reign. I was the first Zulu Princess, I had my own mini float.
I think that the Original Illinois Club is the oldest and most prestigious African American Carnival Club in New Orleans! However, they've never paraded!
What an amazing program, please produce more of these amazing videos including Jefferson and st bernard parishes Zeus helios Rhea Juno Jupiter Arabic And the gentilly carnival We had Pandors Hercules Pegasus Okeanos!
There are no more parades in Gentilly and St. Bernard! Okeanos and Pegasus took the traditional Uptown route! I believe that all of the St. Bernard Krewes disbanded! So did Pandora and Hercules!
There was one seeming error in the narration I didn't catch the first time I saw this special, commenting during the 1952 Rex Parade that it was the beginning of the "new look" King's float with the large crown surmounting the draping train. That concept dates back to the 1930s and was introduced by Leda Hincks-Plauche when she became designer for Rex, Comus and Proteus and was a bow then to the new realities of the Great Depression, when even the Old Line krewes had to economise and resort to more standardised floats that could be reused year after year with redecoration, along with signature floats such as the King's car. Mrs. Plauche's design sketches from the period should be in the Louisiana Digital Archive, and actually the basic idea goes even a bit further back to a Jennie Wilde design for the 1911 Comus procession ("Familiar Quotations"), the colour design plate for which is in Henri Schindler's Float Designs Of The Golden Age. The now standard King's car design first appeared for Comus in 1930 and Rex not long afterward and the Proteus seashell and water curl-wave number 1 car was another Leda Hincks-Plauche design. I suppose Errol Laborde was back-tracking a bit with his narration and meant to say Rex had introduced the signature King's car and had to hurry it in during the course of a brief special trying to cram a half-century of Carnival parade history into a one hour show, but it wasn't sufficiently clarified.
They stopped parading because the laws were changed pertaining to membership. Don't act like you don't know these people did not want no people outside of their race
Throw me something Mr! Not in reference to what women on French Quarter balconies do. lol That's the only time I recall farm tractors on the streets of New Orleans pulling floats.
Why doesn't Rex invite out of state Major College Bands such as Alabama and Ole Miss to march in their parade? Their campuses aren't too far from New Orleans, and many students from the Metro New Orleans area go there!
Somethings never change. I love seeing how excited the crowd is to receive the "throws".
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@44:50 The St. Augustine Marching 100 ... legendary💜💛💜💛💯🎺🎭
Excellent show! Just so much fun! I could watch this over and over!!!
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What a wonderful show! Thank you so much for putting this together. It comes at a perfect time!
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A fantastic special, with a lot of wonderful footage of the old parades: particularly the Comus and Venus parades of 1954, the 1941 Rex parade, those 1960s Rex parades with the animations, and the rare Endymion parade from the time when it was still a Gentilly parade and rolled more artistic floats on the streets.
We are so glad to hear you enjoyed!
@@WYESTV You bet. I enjoy all these Carnival specials every year. I remember one programme on the art of float building which now seems to have been lost. Perhaps it's time for an updated documentary special, particularly since the introduction of the new foam-sculpting techniques for props now taking the place of the old direct-build papier-mache process.
Ed Muniz, Endymion's former Captain, copied off of Bacchus!
@@WYESTV I knew that Ed Muniz got his ideas for his Krewe from Bacchus! Arthur Hardy acknowledged that Muniz told him that this was the future of Carnival!
Thanks so much, Peggy, for compiling all these old films, some from nearly 100 years ago! I loved it!
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I couldnt make it back home for mardi gras this season bc there were NO parades but WOW this is awesome
Very enjoyable, a real blast from the past!!!
This absolutely made my day! What an amazing show!
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Needs a part 2!!!!
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Great job! Happy Mardi Gras!
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Amazing! Thank you for doing this.
So glad to hear you enjoyed!
In '68, Herb Alpert had a # 1 smash hit on the Billboard Hot 100: This Guy's in Love With You!
love the vintage footage, cant wait to get back to mardi in a few days!
Wow nice piece of footage riding on a float back then was pretty rough better not be drunk no barriers to hold you
My father Arthur Vigne was King Zulu 1988. He passed away in July 2019. I would love to have footage of the year he reign. I was the first Zulu Princess, I had my own mini float.
Amazing!
I think that the Original Illinois Club is the oldest and most prestigious African American Carnival Club in New Orleans! However, they've never paraded!
What an amazing program, please produce more of these amazing videos including Jefferson and st bernard parishes
Zeus helios Rhea
Juno Jupiter Arabic
And the gentilly carnival
We had Pandors Hercules Pegasus Okeanos!
We appreciate the kind comment. Thanks for watching!
There are no more parades in Gentilly and St. Bernard! Okeanos and Pegasus took the traditional Uptown route! I believe that all of the St. Bernard Krewes disbanded! So did Pandora and Hercules!
They need to do a segment on parades that no longer ride
There was one seeming error in the narration I didn't catch the first time I saw this special, commenting during the 1952 Rex Parade that it was the beginning of the "new look" King's float with the large crown surmounting the draping train. That concept dates back to the 1930s and was introduced by Leda Hincks-Plauche when she became designer for Rex, Comus and Proteus and was a bow then to the new realities of the Great Depression, when even the Old Line krewes had to economise and resort to more standardised floats that could be reused year after year with redecoration, along with signature floats such as the King's car. Mrs. Plauche's design sketches from the period should be in the Louisiana Digital Archive, and actually the basic idea goes even a bit further back to a Jennie Wilde design for the 1911 Comus procession ("Familiar Quotations"), the colour design plate for which is in Henri Schindler's Float Designs Of The Golden Age.
The now standard King's car design first appeared for Comus in 1930 and Rex not long afterward and the Proteus seashell and water curl-wave number 1 car was another Leda Hincks-Plauche design. I suppose Errol Laborde was back-tracking a bit with his narration and meant to say Rex had introduced the signature King's car and had to hurry it in during the course of a brief special trying to cram a half-century of Carnival parade history into a one hour show, but it wasn't sufficiently clarified.
They stopped parading because the laws were changed pertaining to membership. Don't act like you don't know these people did not want no people outside of their race
Were we not watching the same film? I saw coconuts being thrown during the Zulu parade, lol. Look @8:20
Reading up on the Mystik knights of Comus and came across this.
Mistick Krewe of Comus
Throw me something Mr! Not in reference to what women on French Quarter balconies do. lol That's the only time I recall farm tractors on the streets of New Orleans pulling floats.
I remember they used to throw coconuts at the Zulu parade. I never caught one.
Why doesn't Rex invite out of state Major College Bands such as Alabama and Ole Miss to march in their parade? Their campuses aren't too far from New Orleans, and many students from the Metro New Orleans area go there!
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