The Pilgrim Fathers Come Back (1928)

Full titles read: The Pilgrim Fathers come back for a day to assist University Students to hold up the town in great Charity Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. M, S of a small boat stopping alongside a snowcovered quay; men in old fashioned costumes wait on the quayside; one holding a scroll. Several women in 17th century costume (bonnets and shawled dresses), holding collection boxes, and men in various kinds of fancy dress (American Indian, Canadian Mountie) get out of the boat and are greeted by the others. The women crouch down while one of the men spouts off, religious evangeliststyle. A man with a huge false moustache and kind of town crier costume reads from the scroll. L, Ss show different floats in the rag procession through the centre of Nottingham, all with an American theme prohibition, movie making, pierot prison inmates ( ) and all under a heavy snowfall Two trams follow close behind. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PAT