ITALY / LEISURE - The Feast of the Year of University in Italy (1931)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Video Roll Title: Florence - University students in freshers’ carnival rag Good shots of student revellers and costumes in University carnival in Florence, Italy. Full Description: ITALY: Florence: Festival scenes, donkeys pulling cart, revellers in mediaeval garb / Festival procession of students dressed up in cloaks and long white beards / Cyclists dressed up as Roman soldiers, more of legionnaires on foot / Float with revellers throwing confetti / Dragon breathing fire / Revellers in a variety of costumes, mostly renaissance / Women in unusual hats / More of carnival attenders in renaissance garb, dressed as sages / Reveller dressed as king in crown performing ritual passing crown to another / Crowd assembled in plaza outside Uffizi (model on Michelangelo’s statue of David in the background) / Dancers in gypsy costu