+"Viareggio Italy" +1934 stock footage and images

Floats of different forms featured in the procession of a carnival in Viareggio, Italy.

Carnival day in Viareggio, Italy. The town of Viareggio holds a Carnival street celebration a day before the beginning of Lent (a solemn period of penitential commemoration until Easter for Roman Catholics). A giant float with a giant papier-mâché effigy depicting an old man and a mouse moves along a road in the carnival. Men dancing on the float. Gigantic papier-mâché cartoon figures are on display in floats. A large group of people on both sides of the float move with the procession. Buildings on both sides of the road. Caricaturized African tribesmen effigies are displayed on a float. Men in stereotypical African costumes dancing on African float. Gigantic papier-mâché effigies moving mechanically on floats. Crowds gathered on the sides watch the procession. Several floats of different forms move in the procession. Men dancing while perched on floats. Papier-mâché effigy’s eyebrows moving upward mechanically.