| ALL IN THE CAUSE OF CHARITY To raise money for charity, students from Portsmouth dress up as Ku Klux Klan members and get the Lord Mayor to join them. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5417 |
| Catalog #: | 247739 | |
| Clip Number: | 247739-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1671 | |
| Timecode: | 01:16:15 - 01:17:58 | |
| Location: | Portsmouth, Hampshire | |
| Year Shot: | 1929 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FASHION: Costume/Masquerade/Fancy Dress FESTIVALS: Students Rags LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Hampshire, Portsmouth | |
| Description: | All in the cause of charity. Ku Klux Klan - otherwise Portsmouth's merry students - raid the Town Hall and "initiate" the Lord Mayor a member! Portsmouth, Hampshire L/S as one student wearing robes and a black hood walks down with the mayor to other students at the bottom of the steps outside the Town Hall. L/S as the students dressed as Ku Klux Klan members walk along. M/S as the first student speaks. M/S of one in procession carrying a noose. M/S as something is read out from a scroll and the leader puts the mayor in robes with string of onions (?) or lemons (?) around his neck. M/S as the students wave their arms and bob up and down. | |
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