Here Comes The Fire Brigade (1927)

Item title reads: “Here comes the Fire Brigade. Business suspended in centre of “Cottonpolis“ to laugh at ’Varsity Students’ Fire Brigade “Rag“.“ Manchester Students rag day. There are various students on a fire tender, some in fancy dress, like pirates. They have signs -’If its a fire drop us a postcard’ ’insurance jobs a speciality’. A woman in a white coat is seen standing on a ledge high up on a building. Suddenly she jumps. It looks alarming, but she is caught by a team holding a fire blanket. They toss her about in a most ungainly fashion for a while, her white bloomers are on show as she rolls over, but she seems to enjoy it - its all in good fun. Note: The jump is quite spectacular and the stunt of tossing the girl in the blanket, showing her long knickers, looks really funny. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.