News in Brief: Carnival
News in Brief: Carnival
Clip: 498838_1_1
Year Shot: 1960
(Actual Date)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1669
Original Film: 033-017
HD: N/A
Location: Viareggio, Italy
Country: Italy
Timecode: 00:03:21 - 00:04:21
Carnival parade in Viareggio, Italy with very elaborate floats, including giant characters and lots of moving parts. One float has figures of 4 international political leaders who carry olive branches and seem to wear wings; the caricatures of Charles De Gaulle and Nikita Khrushchev. Float with a giant head representing Domenico Modugno, the man who sang "Volare." Another view of the 4 leaders, this time animated by real people beneath the giant heads; Caricatures of Dwight D Eisenhower and Harold MacMillan. Strange bedfellows.