Santa Claus Parade Rolls Down Broadway - Christmas Parade (1914-1919)

Santa Claus parade rolls down Broadway - Christmas parade. Santa Claus Parade in New York City, on Broadway. Title says “All newest animals and freaks from Christmas land come early“. Opens with CU of giant balloon head w/ big painted on teeth; attached to a long balloon caterpillar; floating over camera. People walking and hanging onto ropes underneath it; with faces painted like clowns, one sticks face up by cam. as he passes. LS spectators. Giant man (on stilts) approaching; marching band behind him - he walks over the camera! Another balloon animal - horse; w/ rider. Shot of crowd; w/ the huge caterpillar worm thing passing over them. GV street filled w/ people - the giant caterpillar rises straight up vertically into air and floats upward; pan up as it floats up to sky; past rooftops. LS crowd, pan. Then a weird shot of the caterpillar; in sky; now in distance moving around. looks like a tadpole in the sky. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV