Earliest Film Footage of Mardi Gras in New Orleans

Arthur Hardy, who publishes a New Orleans Mardi Gras guide, been searching for decades for a rumored film clip of the city's 1898 Mardi Gras parade, the first one ever filmed. The rumors were true, and he finally found it this past March in, of all places, Netherlands. The Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam had a clip. The found footage was debuted to the public last month. I read that and thought, "I bet that's on YouTube already." You can read the story behind the film and the search for it at Smithsonian.