Mussolini Scrapped (1942)

Titles read: “MUSSOLINI SCRAPPED“. Washington, United States of America. Various shots of a large bust of Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini being carried on a stretcher by sailors through a Washington scrap yard. Commentator cracks “A cod funeral for old cod face“. The bust is put into a hydraulic press and is completely flattened for scrap. The bust was taken from an Italian liner captured at Balboa. 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 Briti