A City Held Up (1929)

Charity rag in Birmingham, West Midlands. Full titles read: A CITY HELD UP Over 2, 000 Birmingham University students in great rag, garner record harvest for L, S s of large crowds of people lining the street, large carnival floats work their way slowly down the street. L, S of float designed as a castle, a pantomime horse dances on the back of another. A student in fancy dress costume stands on top of the vehicle waving an umbrella around. FILM 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 (19101932), Empire News Bulletin (19261930), British Paramount (19311957), and Gaumont British (19341959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the