1959 - Miss Universe Parade

Clip: 356366_1_1

Year Shot: 1959 (Actual Date)

Audio: Yes

Video: B/W

Tape Master: 1662

Original Film: 032-059-04

HD: N/A

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Country: United States

Timecode: 00:16:28 - 00:17:14

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1959 Miss Universe Parade in Long Beach California. Young Caucasian baton girls (children); men on motorcycles; spectators on sidewalk, predominately Caucasian. Pageant women on themed parade floats, some escorted by Navy sailors; Miss Sweden, Marie Louise Ekstrom; Miss Alaska, Anna Lekanof; Miss Hawaii, Patricia Visser; spectators watching, one man has binoculars; Miss Japan, Akiko Kojima (future Miss Universe 1959); Miss Italy, Maria Grazia Buccella; Miss Iowa, Kay Nielson; Miss France, Francoise Saint-Laurent; all women are wearing one piece swimsuits; spectators; pageant women on parade floats being pushed down street by Caucasian male Navy sailors. VO jokes that Miss Universe contestants will not have extraterrestrial competition.