1,000 Pigeons (1927)

Item title reads: “1,000 pigeons. Released in yard of House of Commons by Sir Cooper Rawson, M.P., in race in aid of Royal Sussex County Hospital.“ London M/S Sir Cooper Rawson, wearing a top hat, walks from a building with two others into a courtyard. He moves towards some baskets containing the pigeons and the party start to open the doors to release the birds. The mass of birds flutter out of the baskets in a great flock and those gathered watch them go. 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