"Rose Monday" Celebration
"Rose Monday" Celebration
Clip: 425673_1_1
Year Shot: 1967
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1757
Original Film: 040-013-04
HD: N/A
Location: Germany
Timecode: 00:32:44 - 00:33:32
Pre-Lenten festivities come to a climax in Cologne, West Germany with the traditional "Rosenmontag" or "Rose Monday" parade. The procession includes bright costumes, bands, floats and merriment preceding the somberness of Lent. A crowd of people gather and sway to the sounds of German folk music. There are clowns. Children skipping, walking and dancing down the center of the street. People dressed up in costume on the floats throwing candy at the children and people lining the sides of the streets. Make shift airplanes are in the parade. German political papier-m ch caricatures are showcased in the parade circa 1967. Some German people dressed up as Indians and Vikings.