1950s - Port of Spain - Trinidad and Tobago - Carnival - 1950er - Karneval - 8mm
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- The Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is a massive annual event held on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday in Trinidad and Tobago. The event is known for participants' colorful costumes and exuberant celebrations. There are cultural events such as band launch fetes running in the lead up to the street parade on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. It is said that if the islanders are not celebrating it, then they are preparing for it, while reminiscing about the past year's festival.
Traditionally, the festival is associated with calypso music, with its origins formulated in the midst of hardship for enslaved West and Central Africans; recently Soca music has replaced calypso as the most celebrated type of music. Costumes, stick-fighting and limbo competitions are also important components of the festival. This film shows us the carnival in Port of Spain in the year 1953 or 1954.
The carnival groups we can see were called: Chinese Mandorins, Golden Eagle Warriors, Dog Patch, Saigon, Greatest Show on Earth, The Carnival Queen, Broken Teapot, Martinique, 40 Thieves of Baghdad, Seminoles, Ivanhoe, Black Velvet, Conquerors of Kiska, British Monarchy and Olympus. There was also a band called Harold Saldinah’s band, spotted by a viewer of visualhistory.tv.
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I was 4 years old and watching this soundless video from 1950 Trinidad Carnival, I spotted my maternal grandmother and my dad (both sadly deceased). I was looking for my Mum but did not see her. I believe this band might be Harold Saldinah’s band: they always played in his band until 1956 when we emigrated to the U.K. This is an amazing happening for me. What a angelic sign from the Universe! I had 5 siblings then and then got another brother who was born in London. We lost 2 brothers so 5 of us left: 3 girls, 2 boys. And God willing my Eldest grandson’s partners are both expecting a girl in early January 2022, a boy in late February 2022. I will keep this to show them their great great grandfather and their great, great, great grandmother. Just amazing. I am so emotional.
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So are you saying that this is Trinidad Carnival 1950 ? 😳
Yes, this is amazing for me too
My mother migrated to the UK with my sister and I after she fled from my father's cruelty.
I remember carnival in the late 50's and it was truly magnificent. A truly spectacular art form, worthy to be discribed (right up to the 80's.)as the greatest show on earth. Certainly, not so much now !
@@angelalumwai6164 Hi Angela, seems like life was so much better then In T&T than today, I worked & lived there for 6 years recently, both Bago & Trinny, Personally liked Bago better, but as a white boy , born & raised in UK, worked all over the world previous to T&T, In was disapointed what Isaw there, thats why I say , must have been better then. Bit like how the UK was when I was a kid, not the crap hole it is today. Glad I got out. Good luck to you Angela
Can you give us the timestamp for your dad and grandma.
When more clothing was worn⭐
Nice video. it truly gives me a better vision about the cultural part of Trinidad and Tobago back in the 50s and it truly helps me with the personal project i'm working on.
Thank you! That sounds great!
I was not born yet but it is truly amazing to see my culture in its original setting
Although I'm only 18yrs, these videos I would like to save 🔖 to share in the future with my children and grandchildren 💕 thank 🙇
I have always wanted to see my country's traditions and cultural heritage without the glitter 😊
A time when you can walk the streets at any time without fear
💕
When carnival bands came out on both days in costumes, and it was worth seeing.
Wonderful…
So good to see..
what a treasure to share…
Thank You
Beautiful footage of carnival .Thank you.
It is a shame you didn't choose original music to make sense of the dancing and prancing. Viewers of the video, who know little or nothing of Trinidad carnival would believe the music played is the accompanying music the mascaraders and revellers were moving too
Exactly, what has South African Xylophone music to do with T&T Carnival? Nothing!
Yes. Dissonant
Portable cameras in those days had no audio capabilities.
Thanks for the video but why didn't you use Trinidadian music. There is old music on UA-cam. It does not really depict the carnival.
Amazing!
In those days and until the early 70s there was a Carnival Queen beauty contest, but only the white girls or the so-called Trinidad whites were queens. Peter Minshall's adopted sister, portraying Washer Woman, I think, was was the first black queen. A few years later, they stopped having it.
THIS IS TRULY AMAZING ! 🇹🇹🇨🇦👍
great place, great time.
Nice historical Carnival video.. A little narration or even a caption would have enhanced the presentation. Happy to see the old time mas years ago. I was born in the 60's
So beautiful; I am from this era. Notice how the masqueraders are well costumed and dancing and chipping along so decently. Not like today with basically naked, badly shaped, disgusting looking men and women shamelessly prancing around. Carnival in those days was truly a magnificent spectacle.
INDEED.
No one has hands in the air, no rags, no winning they just comfortable 😉
WOW from Trinidad.
I remember those days.
Some fondly others not so.
Incredible....they had more clothes on back then! Sad to see the degeneration into what is called Carnival today!
During this time, the white and light skin were always chosen as carnival queen. My mother was a teenager at this time in Trinidad.
Wonder what weather like in those time? Hehe
This is proper mas. No half naked women in bikinis wineing down to the ground
They are going to be practically naked for 2023. I saw a lot of costumes for bands like Tribe, etc.
When Carnival was tasteful..
wondering when whining started in trinidad carnival?
Probably around 1974 during the advent of soca 😉
"Whining" has always been part of the cultural landscape of Trinidad and Tobago: these images here are but a slice of the T&T carnival which encompassed then as now elements of African, European, etc.. masquerade and cultural traditions.
@@gyhd9308 Not what they do today. That would have been considered vulgar and classless. I know because I am not a young spring chicken.
those ays was the best trinidad carnanal
Hmm just saw a section in wat looked like shortpants,?
That decend carnival ,carnival i use to look forward for not now at all, now is just allowing people to feel free to walk naked in thr road shame
And now the younger generation only wear a Thong & Bra that coat ridiculous amount of money.
How cute, just a little jibbing lol.