Parade
An interesting bit of videotape:
- Filmed by the Lumiere Brothers, this is said to be the first thing ever filmed in Chicago. Can anyone recognize the building? My best guess is that it's Bridewell Prison (too dark to be the coliseum). I thought it might be the Chicago Day Parade in October, 1896, but I think it was actually earlier than that.
We know we've got a bunch of retirees reading, but we don't think any go back that far.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
72 Comments:
The guy in the third row foreground with the mustache is NorthSide.
I think the second from the right is Kenny Watt
wow! everyone has the exact same mustache. I spotted only 2 officers in the whole bunch without a mustache. see if one of you can do better...
now those are some real mustaches, and they don't have tazers or computers or radios--- how the hell did they ever do police work ??????
Holy shit, the department used to be made up of clones of recently retired 010 1st watch desk Sgt. Mckitrick!!
Will Rahm be pirouetting on stage during St Jude's IF we play that music?
All White. All Tall. All have awesome Moustaches.
Looks like moustaches were a uniform requirement at the time.
Very cool film.
WOW…Those mustaches make the ones from when my dad was on in the late 60’s thru the 90’s look like pencil-thin kid in high school TRYING to grow a ‘stache!!!
This video must have been filmed in March.
Holy MUSTACHES!!!
Every single copper had a friggin mustache...
We know we've got a bunch of retirees reading, but we don't think any go back that far.
i do.
although, i'm not retired.
Chalkie
All but two guys had moustaches.
I think I saw one of those guys working special last week!
someone stated that its actually part of a parade for the columbian exposition. notice the domes in the background
I swear I saw Sgt Mulligan in the parade.
said...
now those are some real mustaches, and they don't have tazers or computers or radios--- how the hell did they ever do police work ??????
4/21/2011 12:31:00 AM
Yeras ago, before hair gel police, there was no use of force model. You were given a stick, star and gun. Everyone feared the police and no one resisted. The police controlled and owned the street. Today, apathy rules. Now gang bangers will not hesitate to run over police or shoot at police. Really, do gang bangers fear the police or the court system in Chicago? After years with JFLED and now 1300 spar forms. Imagine coppers from 1900's handling Bulls riots!
Looks like a Sheithauer family reunion!
There was one platoon without clubs, were they the call back unit?
What's with all the mustaches? I only saw 2 guys in that whole video without one. Would be hard to identify any of them since they all look alike...just sayin'!
The guy in the third row foreground with the mustache is NorthSide.
4/21/2011 12:16:00 AM
LMAO!
all in same uniform
one of them traveled thru the space time loop and now works the desk on afternoons in 025. time lord d.p.
http://whitecitycinema.com/2010/12/03/the-secret-history-of-chicago-movies-chicago-police-parade/
The “birth” of motion pictures is generally credited by historians to December of 1895, when the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere held in Paris the first public presentation of their invention the “cinematographe” (a combination movie camera, printer and projector). This is believed to be the first time large-scale film projection occurred before a viewing public (as opposed to the movies that had previously been seen only on peep-show machines like Thomas Edison’s kinetoscope). Incredibly, the first motion picture ever shot in Chicago, the still extant Chicago défilé de policemen (Chicago Police Parade), was made only months after the Lumieres’ demonstration.
The cinematographe:
The popularity of the cinematographe led the Lumieres to dispatch cameramen all over the world so audiences could see, for the first time ever, real-time moving images of how people from different countries and cultures lived, worked and played. The aptly titled Chicago Police Parade is a 45 second film of 144 Chicago Police officers walking down a wide street (possibly Wabash Avenue) and past a stationary camera. The officers are formally dressed and carrying billy clubs. Amusingly, it appears that approximately 142 of the officers are sporting large mustaches. Bringing up the rear of the parade is a horse drawn carriage.
As with other Lumiere productions of the period (including the masterpiece Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat), the camera is positioned at an oblique angle so that the policemen appear to walk “diagonally” from the rear of the frame to the front. This perspective puts greater emphasis on the depth of field of the image, with a clear demarcation of background, middle ground and foreground, and also serves as a good example of just how well composed the Lumiere brothers’ films were. However, Chicago Police Parade was not made by either of the brothers themselves but instead by one of their favorite cinematographers, a Frenchman of Italian descent named Alexandre Promio. The very next year Promio would become a major footnote in motion picture history by effectively inventing camera movement; he took his camera to Venice and placed it on board of a gondola!
Notice that they are almost 100 percent in step. I can imagine just how that would look today.
I do see the resemblance to Jim McKittrick, though.
I don't think this is the Bridewell -- that building was taller. It is not the Colesium. It looksl ike it might be an armory.
I think this is great, I wish the deppartment took more pride in itself and its history
No Hair Gels!
It's nice to see a height requirement was in order.
DON'T LOOK AT THIS FILM UNLESS YOU'RE AUTHORIZED TO DO SO!
Watch out, Kirby might SPAR yo ass!
This certainly won't be anywhere close to what Unit 192 & 196 is going to look like after what they're trying to pull off
with the BS inspection and then mandate everyone
to go to St. Jude.
Looks like they had more manpower way back then than you guys are given today.....
fell off my chair laughing at the sarcasm.....guys yor are the best.
sheer numbers and brute force, thats the way it should be....god bless CPD....
I vote we bring back the uniforms and the covers!
They don't look like the type of Officers who practice verbal judo.
Wow, they're actually in step and none of their uniforms look like they picked them off the floor of the closet that morning!
Sgt. Mckitrick was the third guy in the second row. He was a PPO then.
Holy shit, the department used to be made up of clones of recently retired 010 1st watch desk Sgt. Mckitrick!!
4/21/2011 12:32:00 AM
Picture each one of those marchers screaming at some random outside unit seeking arrest report approval " I don't care how many baggies he has, YOU CAN'T ARREST SOMEONE FOR JUST HAVING A LOT OF BAGGIES!!!"
it looks like not a single one was under 6'4" 225 lbs... can you imagine an entire PD being "goon squad" eligible? the public would break wind & cry about "too unfriendly looking and too intimidating."
Suds from Area 1 is in row 2
Don't know how you come up with this stuff, but it's facinating. They didn't need tazers or guns....they had their nightsticks.
Not much discipline in the marching there, but nice collection of soup strainers!
They are all Irish! Boy, nothing has really changed, has it?
Haha, everyone looks like exactly the same person at different heights.
One thing stands out in this short clip,NO FUCKIN AROUND or grab assin,take note hairgels,thats how you act !!!!!!
Looks like a Sheithauer family reunion!
4/21/2011 07:31:00 AM
LMAO !!!!!!
Anonymous said...
Looks like a Sheithauer family reunion!
4/21/2011 07:31:00 AM
Good one. We miss you CAPT.
One of the best pirates in the job!
015 report/spar officer
I bet these guys were very adept at handing out wood shampoos.
Anonymous said...
Will Rahm be pirouetting on stage during St Jude's IF we play that music?
4/21/2011 12:39:00 AM
Daley never could be bothered to come to St Jude although he pissed himself for CFD.
Don't expect Rahm either. Anything more will be a surprise. I could care less if any mayor ever comes to St Jude. Fuck them, it isn't for them. They will just hog media attention end draw news people for the wrong reasons.
Anonymous said...
They don't look like the type of Officers who practice verbal judo.
4/21/2011 12:19:00 PM
They said something once. Then the poor asshole was seeing stars and on the ground.
Holy shit! It's Sgt.Mulligan on his training cycles!
Now I want a mustache!!!
SCC- this is very cool as my great grandfather was Chicago Police Officer (detective sergeant) during late 1800s. Thanks for sharing! :)
Yes there Irish laddy with cool mustaches.
Never, Ever, Trust Anyone With A Beard, and No Mustache !
Unless..... It's Abraham Lincoln.
PS; Good Advice For Anyone Hailing A
Taxi.
You can still tell who the new guys were. There the ones with wax on their mustaches. I believe called mustache gels at that time.
I remember seeing old photos of Cpd from that era. These mostly Irishmen/Catholics were hired for brains and brawn at very low pay because the signs at the Chicago manufacturing plants and retailers windows clearly stated "Help Wanted" No Black or Irish need Apply. These men desperate for any job took the steady work and evolved into proud LEOs that nobody wanted to take on. You could sleep out in your back yard/ leave the windows open on hot summer nights and no worry! The less fitness requirements obviously caused the fat/messy/moronic/gangbangers etc being hired during the past decade...sigh....retired real police Ps to the approx 1 in 10 real police officer(s) hired in the past 10 years I thank you for your service.
the original mustache wax p.o.'s
only 2 kinds of people are allowed mustaches. 80s porn stars and policemen.
The ones without mustaches were dodging a line up.
oh yeah i can recall that parade when i participated in it right after the dust up of the spanish american war. WTF although i do believe one po is the much beloved HARLEY SCHENKER,
To 07:01:00 PM
Mustache gels! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
I think i saw Jarmusz marching by
My great grandfather was a po during that time. Later got killed on the job. I wonder if he marched by in the film?
It's great to read how much everyone's sense of humor/sarcasm is still intact - hilarious!
Its the armory on North Broadway. I know I am the third on the left, next to Harley.
Yep, not a pair of blue jeans, set of dreads, or gelled head to be seen among those fine men.
Big Irish head-knockers who were intimate in the Way of the Nightstick!
I wonder if there's some silent film from that era that shows an old-school tuneup or two, lol.
>>> To: Yeras ago, before hair gel police, there was no use of force model. You were given a stick, star and gun. <<<
Not exactly, I worked on historical projects for the department years ago. New recruits reported to their station and got a lecture from an Inspector. They were given a bolt of cloth and sent to a tailor to have a uniform made. They were given a star, cap shield (the ones we changed go back that far) but NO GUN. Many did carry pocket "virtue pieces".
They were also given al call box key; I still have mine.
Hey I know them thats 2nd watch from 016 at St. Judes last year!
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