Fourteenth annual Diaper Derby at Palisades Amusement Park in Bergen County, New Jersey, in 1952
Title card: "Diaper Derby!" superimposed over diaper-clad baby crawling on grass away from camera / MS nurse weighs a baby on a scale at the Diaper Derby's outdoor weighing station in Palisades Park, with sign "Weigh In Here" on table; mothers and babies look on / CU baby wails as nurse smiles while holding him on the scale / mothers kneel to put the babies in place at the derby's starting gate; signs denote nickname of each baby above his or her place at the starting gate; a nurse stands at the end of the gate, holding a small starter flag / CU sign above gate stall "Wrong Way Willie" / CU sign above stall "Flying Saucer" / LS starting gate, with mothers releasing babies for the race and nurse waving the starter flag / CU baby crawls across grass toward camera / baby crawls away from camera and diaper starts to come off / CU stall sign "Southern Exposure" / baby crawls most of the way out of its diaper / mother kneels on grass at finish line, waving and calling to her baby to encourage it to come to her as other mothers encourage their babies in the background / baby crawls away from camera / WS babies crawl on grass toward sign marked "Finish Line" as mothers at the finish line encourage their babies and photographer takes pictures at the side / mother on knees smiles, waves, encourages baby / baby crawls, wearing sagging diaper / two mothers encourage their babies as a man stands nearby; a park ride runs in the background / CU Diaper Derby winner Howard Hughes drinks from a milk bottle as his mother holds him; he wears a cardboard crown inscribed "14th Annual Palisades Amusement Park Diaper Derby for Crawling Championship Winner"
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Editorial #:
499863912
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
01 August, 1952
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Licence type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:00:43:04
Location:
Palisades, New Jersey, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr001095_04_02.mov
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