Town resident Rudy Freund's home-movie footage captured the 1955 Memorial Day Parade, which started at the Nathan Hale Ray school and culminated with a ceremony on the Moodus green. The footage was digitally enhanced and edited for today’s viewers.

The marchers in military uniform that day were barely 10 years out from WWII. The older veterans had served in WWI. Judging from the jackets and coats, it was a cool May day. The Scouts, Little Leaguers, school children, and the Drum and Fife Corps turned out anyway, along with dignitaries and the families who gathered at the green.

The adults in the film are long gone. The youngest children on screen are in their 70s and 80s now. And Moodus Center was demolished some 15 years after Rudy took his shots.