Below is an amateur cinematographer's work capturing Mardi Gras of 1941. It's one of the many films from the
Prelinger Archive that is now online. One of the astonishing changes that the internet has given us is that tiny little treasures like these - housed away in archives accessible the few who could find out about them and hunt them down in person - are now available anywhere in the world instantly.
But since this is the internet we are talking about, another astonishing change that it has given us is that people all over the world can simultaneously ask "does anyone flash the camera?"