A Daring Prank Steeplejack Climbs Church Spire (1920)

Godalming, Surrey. Intertitle: “A Daring Prank. Mr. C. L. Ager - the well-known steeplejack - climbs Church spire to recover a pocket handkerchief“. Low angle L/S of a church spire. At the very top, clinging onto the weather cock, the figure of a man waving a handkerchief can be seen. He shakes his legs and puts his hat onto the cock. We then see him begin to slide down the edge of the spire. L/S, looking over the heads of a crowd of onlookers, of Ager making his way down the side of the church. C/U of a very youthful Ager handing the retrieved handkerchief to the Vicar, Ager then shakes hands with the Vicar and another man, a crowd, mainly of boys, stand in the background. FILM ID: 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 coll