Students Rag Day in Liverpool, Lancashire (now Merseyside).
MS as a procession of teenage boys come marching along carrying umbrellas and other items including a sign 'The Sacrifice of Sister Jane', a tall pole; and an effigy of Sister Jane; wrapped in white sheets with a one-dimensional crown...
Students Rag Day in Liverpool, Lancashire (now Merseyside).
MS as a procession of teenage boys come marching along carrying umbrellas and other items including a sign 'The Sacrifice of Sister Jane', a tall pole; and an effigy of Sister Jane; wrapped in white sheets with a one-dimensional crown on her head made of paper.
Some of the boys wear costumes: white robes or coats; top hats or tall cylindrical hats of cardboard, fake wigs and moustaches.
They march around in street for a while. Then shot of a few of them on a platform with the effigy, one boy speaking through home-made megaphone.
Shots of a few of the boys putting on some kind of performance; and shots of other boys watching and laughing, crowd of adult townspeople in background. They set fire to the effigy; dousing it with petrol to make a bonfire; then dance gleefully around the flames in a circle.
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