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thedailywhat:

From The Archives: Found footage of the 1939 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Among the regular balloons featured at the time: The Tin Man, Santa, and Uncle Sam (introduced the year before).

No new balloons were introduced that year.

Footage finder Tom Pappalardo writes:

I bought this reel at a junk shop in Northampton, Massachusetts (I think?) about a decade ago. It sat unwatched in a box of other random Super 8/8mm reels for quite awhile, until I decided I wanted to capture some of my family’s own home movies. Since I had the projector set up, I ended up sifting through all my other ‘mystery’ reels, and this was one of them.

He captured the film with an 8mm projector and a Canon HD camera, and used After Effects for color-correction and editing. He notes that there was no audio track.

[tompappalardo / gothamist.]