Brooklyn San Paulino Feast film
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1984.10.1
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Fasts and feasts
label: Topic
content: Festivals
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Louis C. Barricelli in 1984.
culture: label: Culture
content: Italian Americans
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (7 minutes, color silent reversal; 200 feet
black-and-white silent reversal; 100 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1939
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1984.10
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Silent films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: silent films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage documenting Giglio or Feast of St. Paulinus, an Italian religious pageant of liberation which originated in Nola, Italy and was recreated in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York by immigrants. Giglio refers both to the ceremonial structure and to the spectacle surrounding its transport through the streets. Footage shows preparations prior to the celebration including a band, men with wreath shaped bread, street activities, and men eating and the celebration with men carrying the tower, a band playing at the base of the tower, and crowds of people dancing in the street.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Human Studies Film Archives also holds Brooklyn Giglio film, 1956, I Gigli a Nola, 1923, and San Paola Festival film, circa 1950.