The Super Ladder (1934)

Titles read: “The Super Ladder“. Paris, France. Various shots of the Paris Fire Brigade trying out their new ladder, the highest of its kind in France. It is opened out, telescopically, before Notre Dame, and a fireman climbs up it to sit on the very top - level with the upper storeys of the cathedral. The ladder is then electrically folded back down to the fire engine at quite a speed - no sign of the fireman! A crowd of people watch from the ground. 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 en