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Year
1950 (circa)
Video Details
27:00; color; sound; V-98 DA058; S. 828
Description
This film shows the Gasparilla Celebration, which began in 1904, as it was done in the 1950s. The pirates invade and a wonderfully colorful event follows. Businessmen are made up as pirates and lose all inhibitions as they participate in the parades and pageants. Emmett Kelly, as Weary Willie, appears in the film and an amphibious tank escorts the ship into the harbor. A high-wire artist walks between the ship's masts. This was filmed in Kodachrome.
Corporate Subject
Geographic Subject
Personal Subject
Title
Buccaneer Conquest
Subject
Ceremonies
Festivals
Parades
Promotional films
Tourism
Description
This film shows the Gasparilla Celebration, which began in 1904, as it was done in the 1950s. The pirates invade and a wonderfully colorful event follows. Businessmen are made up as pirates and lose all inhibitions as they participate in the parades and pageants. Emmett Kelly, as Weary Willie, appears in the film and an amphibious tank escorts the ship into the harbor. A high-wire artist walks between the ship's masts. This was filmed in Kodachrome.
Date
1950 (circa)
Image URL
/fpc/memory/PhotographicCollection/video/DA058.jpg
Color
color
Video Details
27:00; color; sound; V-98 DA058; S. 828
Video Filename
DA058.mp4
YouTube ID
rs1nuWogaSU
Geographic Term
Tampa (Fla.)
Subject - Person
Kelly, Emmett, 1898-1979
Subject - Corporate
Gasparilla Festival (Tampa, Fla.)
Video Snippet
This film shows the Gasparilla Celebration as it was in the 1950s...
Video Time
27:00
Video Category
3
Thumbnail
/fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/DA058.jpg
Digitized
true
Chicago Manual of Style
Buccaneer Conquest. 1950 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/252919>, accessed 24 December 2024.
MLA
Buccaneer Conquest. 1950 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/252919>