Grandma’s Parade! (1940)

Titles read: “GRANDMA’S PARADE!“ New York, United States of America. Various shots of old ladies wearing old-fashioned bathing suits, parading about an open-air swimming pool in a contest. Judges sit at a table watching. The women are weighed on a machine. People from the watching crowd call out to try and guess the weight of some of them. Winner Margaret Smith of Brooklyn is given a round of applause and says she is proud to be the grandma of 23 grandchildren. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 195