Londoners Held Up (1927)
Item title reads: Londoners Held Up By University Hospital Students in great drive to wipe out debt of London M, S of a woman in coat and feathered hat with a donkey. She goes to a man working in a hole in the ground and asks him for money. There are students in fancy dress, one has a banjo. Two are dressed up as a pantomime bull. M, S of a lorry with a scene of students performing an operation. One in a white coat uses a huge saw on the patient being operated on. Next there is a street scene with a bull fight, as students goad the pantomime bull and finally defeat it. A nurse tends the dying bull. A line of students march in a jokey way, hand on the shoulder of the man ahead, holding spades and lifting their knees high. A working party to bury the bull perhaps Note: Hilarious student stunt for money raising entertainment. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLAS
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