Clever Amateur Firemen (1921)

Item title reads - Clever amateur firemen. Flax Mills worth quarter of a million saved from destruction by company’s own fire brigade. Selby, North Yorkshire. M/S of piles of burnt flax on the ground, a man holds a hose over it while others walk about. The camera pans across the smouldering pile to another man hosing it down. Various shots of men hosing the smoking flax. M/S of men using pitchforks to move the flax away while it is still smouldering. 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 collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end