Policemen In Rome AKA Gift Day For Italian… 1936

Star Item

Description

No title, paperwork reads - Gift day for Italian policemen.

Rome, Italy.

M/S of a traffic policeman stood in the road directing traffic, he has a collection of bottles beside him and every time a car drives past he is given another one or some other sort of gift. Various shots as...

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
12192
Sort Number:
36/005
Time in/Out:
01:34:01:00 / 01:34:29:00
Canister:
36/5
Film ID:
851.36
Issue Date:
16/01/1936

Comments (0)

We always welcome comments and more information about our films.

All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.

Add your comment

To post a comment, please Register or to add a comment
Adrenaline seekers from the past have left an indelible mark on the Pathe archive. Some were so dangerous they even lost their lives. Here are 10 top daredevils.
daredevil
Terrorism is nothing new. The Pathe archive has a vast collection of material related to terrorist attacks dating back to 1919 right through to the 2005 London bombings.
911
British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
Franz Reichelt

Related Videos

Hide
Sydney Bridge Opened

Sydney Bridge Opened

A mounted soldier is apprehended by police after spoiling the opening of Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Police Horse Training

Police Horse Training

Future Metropolitan Police Horses are trained for their careers at this centre in Surrey.

Pan To Day (Panto  Day)

Pan To Day (Panto Day)

Charity 'rag' held by students in Liverpool, Merseyside.

Amateur Skating Championship

Amateur Skating Championship

CW Horn wins Ice Skating's King's Cup in Swavesey, Cambridgeshire.

Lord Byng

Lord Byng

Lord Byng addresses Policemen at Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey.

The Policemen's Tournament (Aka The Polkeman's Tournament)

The Policemen's Tournament (Aka The Polkeman's Tournament)

Cuts (rushes, out takes) for THE POLICEMEN'S TOURNAMENT which is currently missing.

Mr Owen Nares

Mr Owen Nares

Extract from the play "If Winter Comes" displaying the acting talent of Owen Nares.

"The Rock" Hails The Queen

Royal family arrives to Gibraltar - nice footage of ape feeding.

 

 

The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.
Death Row
The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
Buchenwald
The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
Churchill
WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
Battle
Life before health and safety laws; men worked at huge heights, balancing on girders and cranes all in order to help build the world's tallest skyscrapers.
Vertigo
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.
Transport_Inventions
Over its history, the Pathe cameras filmed a number of people who had committed heinous crimes. So in no particular order, these images show ten faces of truly evil men and women.
Himmler