World War One Parade, Naugatuck, CT, July 4, 1919

Описание: Originally filmed by The CT Film Manufacturing Co., New Haven, CT on 35mm nitrate stock. Kept in its original storage can, the film was kept in different homes, garages and attics around the Naugatuck area until it came into the possession of David Ebersole and commissioned by the newly formed Naugatuck Historical Society to be a collectable item for sale. The last few minutes of the film were unaccountably lost, so a final scene had to be artificially created to obtain closure to the program. The filmmaker appears standing in front of "The Rialto Theater" and also in the next closeup shot. He's wearing a white skipper hat! Amazingly, the fragile nitrate film was in superb condition to accommodate a film transfer to Betacam-SP tape. At the film's premier showing in its new DVD format with a 12-track stereo treatment of ambient sounds and music to bring this silent film to life, the audience was audibly taken aback by, among other things, a panning shot of the Naugatuck Green, which essentially has not changed in appearance from that hot July day in 1919 to the night of the show in 1996. The transferred film was edited on an Avid Media Composer, then copied back to Betacam-SP for its distribution to the DVD format. The producer/editor is Bruce Manke of Video Imagination, Connecticut.