The Fresno California Raisin Festival 1930 WB Radford (Patreon)

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Silent, with subtitles.

Originally a public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

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Pacific Rural Press, Volume 99, Number 13, 27 March 1920

FRESNO RAISIN DAY FESTIVAL

lf "the earth do move and the sun do shine," April 30 will find Fresno "all dolled up" for the occasion of the Annual Raisin Day Festival. A proclamation has been made, and a cordial invitation has been extended to everybody to come and add to the enjoyment of the day. Every business concern in San Joaquin Valley has been invited to take part in the parade and pageant, by the Raisin Day Festival Association, at the Fresno County Chamber of Commerce. All who took part in the 1919 parade have been urged to take part again.  The pageant program will be unique, as special stress is being laid upon the historical idea to be incorporated in the parade, therefore it is imperative that every one interested in the success of such an undertaking come to the front with whatever assistance they may be able to render. Valuable prizes will be awarded to the winning floats in each section. There will be music "by the millions," as every brass band and every musical organization from "Dan to Beersheba" has been engaged to dispense music from jazz to grand opera, so there will be no excuse for one not to keep in step that day. It is the intention of the committee on organization to have an elaborate section in the parade headed by a scenic description of the "Days of '49," followed by a prairie schooner. There will also be the old stage coach, the property of the Fresno parlor, Native Sons. An Indian hold-up scene will be pulled off. Tom Mix of daredevil screendom will be on hand to demonstrate what he and his bunch of huskies could do if it was the "real stuff." Speed burners of international reputation will take the turn at 100 miles or better. Valuable prizes will be awarded for every "stunt pulled off." Don't forget the day, April 30. Come early, as there will be others there besides you.