WORLD WAR I VICTORY PARADE 1918

For licensing inquiries please contact Historic Films Archive (www.historicfilms.com / [email protected]) 05:20:34 WELCOME HOME DOUGHBOYS. (1918) #40 YANK'S FABULOUS WORLD WAR I VICTORY PARADE ENDS IN SPONTANEOUS EMOTIONAL DISPLAYS BETWEEN TOTAL STRANGERS. 05:20:58 FIRST SHIP CARRYING RETURNING DOUGHBOYS PASSES STATUE OF LIBERTY, DEC. 23, 1918. MEN WAVE EXCITEDLY AT LADY LIBERTY. ALSO NYC SKYLINE 05:21:08 VESSELS OF ALL TYPES SPEED OUT TO GREET THE DOUGHBOYS. 05:21:12 CU BOAT WHOSE DECKS & RIGGINGS ARE FULL OF WAVING MEN. CU PAN OF MEN ON BOAT 05:21:31 MEN STICK THEIR HEADS OUT OF PORTHOLES, WAVE THEIR HANDS. PANS TO MEN ON DECK, ONE CRAZILY CLIMBS UP ROPE. HIGH SPIRITS 05:21:42 FIRST DOUGHBOYS DISEMBARK. WEARING BACKPACKS 05:21:51 BANDS & PARADING RED CROSS NURSES. AMERICAN & RED CROSS FLAGS 05:21:56 "BLACK JACK" PERSHING ON HORSEBACK SALUTES 05:22:01 HIGH SHOT OF TROOPS MARCHING IN ORDERLY ARRAY. PARADE IN WASHINGTON 05:22:04 HORSE DRAWN CAISSONS PASS UNDER VICTORY ARCH 05:22:14 TROOPS PARADE PAST PRESIDENT WILSON 05:22:29 YOUNG BOY IN SHORT PANTS WAVES FLAG AT PASSING TROOPS. SHOT FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE 05:22:33 NEW YORK CITY, BALLOONS & COLUMNS FLANK ARCH BUILT FOR THE PARADE. 05:22:36 HS CRUSHING CROWD TRIES TO MOVE CLOSER TO PARADE 05:22:40 HIGH SHOT OF HOMECOMING PARADE, MAN SITS ON BEAM HIGH OVER PARADE. WAVES FLAG & HOLDS ON. 05:22:43 MONTAGE OF PARADERS MARCHING DOWN FIFTH AVENUE 05:22:52 MEN STAND HIGH ON LEDGE LOOKING DOWN, WAVING 05:22:56 HIGH SHOT OF LINES & LINES OF NEW AUTOMOBILES IN PARADE 05:23:01 MONTAGE OF GROUND SHOTS OF PARADE. MARCHERS PASS SPECTATORS, MOSTLY OTHER MEN & YOUNG BOYS. 05:23:15 NURSES IN WHITE PASS OUT FLOWERS TO MARCHERS 05:23:20 ARMED SOLDIERS MARCH. 05:23:29 HIGH SHOT MONTAGE OF MARCHERS 05:23:39 CROWD SERGES FORWARD. ARCH IN BACKGROUND. 05:23:44 SPONTANEOUS DANCING BREAKS OUT IN THE STREET CURTAIN FALLS DOWN OVER COUPLES DANCING.