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The Order of Myths is a 2008 documentary film directed by Margaret Brown.It focuses on the Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Alabama, the oldest in the United States.It reveals the separate mystic societies established and maintained by Black and White groups, and acknowledges the complex racial history of a city with a slaveholding past. The Order of Myths: Directed by Margaret Brown. In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color line, we see that beneath the surface of pageantry lies something else altogether. During February—when most of Mardi Gras takes place and which is also Black History Month—Stefannie teaches the fifth-graders about segregation in the South. Stefannie’s great-great-grandfather arrived in Mobile on the Clothilde, a slave ship smuggled into the United States by an ancestor of the white Mardi Gras Queen, Helen Meaher. The The documentary presents an unflinching examination of the racial divide in Mobile’s Mardi Gras celebrations, which have remained largely unchanged for centuries. The film showcases the mystique and grandeur of the two separate Mardi Gras celebrations, highlighting the elaborate floats, costumes, and traditions embraced by both communities. This unsettling 2008 doc explores one of the last bastions of American segregation: Mobile, Alabama, where whites and blacks still throw separate Mardi Gras celebrations. In fact, he wasn't even in Mobile. New Orleans journalistic records show Cain was a guest in the Crescent City watching Mardi Gras parades in 1866 and 1867. In 1868, Cain and the Order of Myths both began parading in Mobile as a regular occurrence. Mobile's more popular New Year's parades slowly waned until evaporating in the late 1880s. About the Documentary. The first Mardi Gras in America was held in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. Three hundred and five years later, the city’s annual Carnival is split down the middle, with separate Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a fascinating documentary on the almost completely segregated Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Alabama The Order of Myths documentary on Mobile, Ala., Mardi Gras will hit DVD on Jan. 13. MOBILE, Ala. -- Last year's documentary about Mardi Gras in Mobile, "The Order of Myths," will be available on This award-winning documentary from "Descendant" director Margaret Brown explores the racially divided Mardi Gras traditions in Mobile, Alabama. Watch trailers & learn more. Filmmaker Margaret Brown’s second feature documentary, 2008’s The Order of Myths, about segregated Mardi Gras ceremonies in Mobile, Ala., is structured around a historical trauma with present-day resonance. Originally envisioned as a broader exploration of Mardi Gras across Mobile, New Orleans, and Southeast Louisiana, the documentary ultimately narrowed its focus to Cajun Mardi Gras, where the Be a part of the historic celebration that has been in Mobile since 1703. Mardi Gras celebrations begin two and a half weeks before Fat Tuesday and the Port City comes to life. Elaborate themed floats manned by masked mystic societies, mounted police and marching bands wind through downtown Mobile and surrounding areas, entertaining nearly a million revelers The most famous New Orleans carnival is the French-influenced carnival organized not by the public authorities, but by the “Krewes.” It starts with the Krewe Mobile, Alabama is the mother of mystics, the original birthplace of Mardi Gras as we know it! Each year, the city and its surrounding communities come together for weeks of parades, masked balls, MoonPies and merry-making leading up to Fat Tuesday, a season that is collectively known as Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras This is for all things Mardi Gras related along the Gulf Coast. Local Businesses If you live in the Mobile, Alabama region and you’re looking for a certain type of business, this is the category for you. Reactions to Mobilian Margaret Brown's film about Mardi Gras in Mobile, "The Order of Myths," are being heard beyond the well-known Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where the documentary A feature-length documentary film about Mardi Gras in Mobile that premiered early this year at the famed Sundance Film Festival will be distributed in theaters and on DVD by New York-based The MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Although most Mardi Gras parades in Mobile use one route, there are multiple routes that parade-goers should know before heading out the door. Most of the Mobile Originally envisioned as a broader exploration of Mardi Gras across Mobile, New Orleans, and Southeast Louisiana, the documentary ultimately narrowed its focus to Cajun Mardi Gras, where the
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