Chicago Police Parade

4.7
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 1 min
  • Premiere: 1896. September 20.

Walking four abreast, in groups of six rows, 144 of Chicago's finest parade past a stationary camera. Each of the six groups that pass is escorted by an officer. All are men, all are white, all look tall, all wear identical high-buttoned uniforms and badges and carry a nightstick. Almost all sport mustaches. Behind the police comes a horse-drawn carriage.

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Louis Lumière

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Louis Lumière

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