This video shot in 1954 is one of the earlier footages of Nepal when the country was opening up to foreigners in the 1950s. Nothing much has changed in the streets now in 2010 since what the video shows or what a National Geographic reporter wrote about the festivities in 1920: "Life in a Nepalese city seems to the uninitiated just one Mardi Gras after another. A dignitary's visit is the occasion of the special holiday, while there would be more red-ink dates than black were the festivals designated as on an occidental calendar."
White, J. C. (1920) “Nepal: a Little-Known Kingdom.” National Geographic, 38 (4), p. 245-283.
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