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Bataille de fleurs et défilé de chars, III / La Société Lumière.

OTHER TITLES
English language translation title: Battle of the flowers and float parade, III DLC

Inventory title: Bataille de fleurs--Montreux DLC

Collective title from inventory: Collection of Lumière films from the Cinémathèque française DLC

CREATED/PUBLISHED
France : La Société Lumière, 1897.

SUMMARY
Presents views of a parade in Montreux, including carts and donkeys covered with flowers, horsedrawn floats, bicycles, and people in native dress.

NOTES
English language translation title, Battle of the flowers and float parade, III, is supplied for the France in America project.

Catalogue Lumière no. 623.

On one reel/videocassette with 58 other Lumière shorts.

First of three films on digital file; identified by title screen added by Cinémathèque française. Followed by Fête des fleurs, I and Bataille de fleurs et défilé de chars, I. No title screens on subsequent films to separate films.

Filmed in Montreux, Switzerland.

Digital files viewed.

Sources used: La production cinématographique des frères Lumière, p. 201; Sadoul, G. Louis Lumière; Rittaud-Hutinet, J. Auguste et Louis Lumière, p. 191-192; M/B/RS Acquisition files (Cinémathèque française file).

Received: 5/22/1970; viewing print; exchange; Cinémathèque française Collection.

Received: 1/24/2007 from VidiPax; master; preservation; Cinémathèque française Collection.

SUBJECTS
Montreux (Switzerland)--Description and travel.
Flower festivals--Switzerland--Montreux.
Parades--Switzerland--Montreux.
Travelogue--Short.

RELATED NAMES
Société anonyme des plaques et papiers photographiques.
Cinémathèque française Collection (Library of Congress)

MEDIUM
1 film reel of 1 (ca. 35 sec., ca. 21 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. viewing print.
1 videocassette of 1 (Betacam SP) (ca. 35 sec.) : si., b&w ; 1/2 in. master.

CALL NUMBER
FCA 5142 (viewing print)
VXF 0171 (master)

DIGITAL ID
mbrsascfr 5145s1 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/mbrsascfr.5145s10

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(France in America: Selections from the LC Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Description)

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