Pancake Day "Rag".

Format:

Video

Contributor:

British Film Institute, owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costume.

Parades.

Students.

England--Manchester.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (36 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1927.

Summary:

"PANCAKE DAY "RAG" Manchester students make merry and do good work for hospitals at citizens' expense". (7). Students, dressed in comic outfits, flip pancakes (18). A motorcyle and side car pass along the road made up like a dragon blowing smoke from its nostrils (22). A mock bullfight in the street (27). A float on the back of a lorry set up like a bar in a public house. The festivities take place in a Manchester street with passing traffic and trams and in the pouring rain (36ft). Also contained in TOPICAL BUDGET "CITY AND SUBURBAN" WINNERS AT CRYSTAL PALACE compilation film (161-197ft)

Notes:

Issue number: 810-1 ; Story number within issue: 2 of 6

Series: Topical Budget.

With intertitles.