Mummer Time

Behind the scenes and on the streets at Philly’s storied Mummers Parade

STORY

Strut down Broad Street with the Comics, tour an old meat packing plant full of floats with the Fancy Division, suit up with the String Bands, dance at dawn with the Wenches, and compete for bragging rights with the Fancy Brigades in the Bicycle Shorts cut of Joshua Crone’s playful documentary about the 2023 Philadelphia Mummers Parade. The feature length version is now on Amazon Prime.

BIOS

Joshua Crone (Filmmaker) A playwright, translator and former Marine, Josh has written and directed plays and movies in Krakow, Berlin, London, Los Angeles and New York. He studied philosophy in Krakow and Berlin and directing at the Polish National Film School in Lodz before moving to Philadelphia in 2021, where he became a contractor and converted an abandoned escape room into the Yellow Bicycle Theater. [Interview in the Inquirer]