Catholic procession in Cologne, 1937
Altar boys and clergy with processional banners and crucifixes process through a Cologne street—a testament to lived urban life in the 1937 travel film.
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The photograph shows a procession of altar servers and a clergyman in white vestments carrying processional banners, crucifixes, and embroidered images of saints. In the background, brick structures and townhouses with spectators at the windows are visible; on the right edge of the frame, onlookers stand on the sidewalk. The scene belongs to the Cologne section of the travel film, in which the Cologne Cathedral is shown alongside the vibrant religious everyday life of the city. Cologne was in 1930s Germany an important center of Rhenish Catholicism, and Corpus Christi or parish processions were a familiar part of the city’s streetscape. The travel film uses this footage to convey the cultural and religious tradition of the city as part of its character.
