Description: The film depicts a large parade going down a high street with shops and residential flats in evidence, drawing in floats from different boroughs from East London and Essex. Spectators watch in a single orderly line from the pavement. Couples in formal dress walk alongside with a push chair. All the women are wearing dresses or skirts and coats and some headscarves. The men are also formally dressed with jackets, shirts and ties and raincoats. The floats are exuberant and colourful with a great attention to detail and creativity. There is combination of commercial and community floats, many of which are collecting money for their causes. The floats pass by in the following order: Miss Edmonton; Miss Newham; Barking Photography Club; white Consul convertible with three beauty queens in pink perched on the back dressed in pink; a Morgan/Jaguar convertible with the Basildon Carnival Queen and Court in the back seat driven by two young men; Southend Kursal Flyer, a large steam train; Barking & Dagenham Post; Cadets Tipped cigarettes, with giant cigarette packages; Radio Caroline, a tiny float on a bike; a Shetland Pony and a number of customised decorated bikes covered in colourful crepe paper; Dagenham girl pipers; High Speed Gas; Tate and Lyle Sugar; the Lifeboat Association, with a large model boat; a large float made to look like a paddle-boat; Sims Printers of Barking; Help Handicapped Children; Play-Leader Scheme; Removals by Rudge; some bagpipes; Fort Float; The Retreat Restaurant with Veterans of Dunkirk on the side; St John's Ambulance Brigade; Woodford Women's League of Health and Beauty; A La Modes; St John's Ambulance again; Austin's of East Ham Ltd. with a Desert Island Discs-themed float; Air Cadets Marching Band; old women in a giant shoe; Sterkenwalds Church; various unidentifiable floats, and finally a large group of majorettes in white uniform with long socks and batons.