Titles read: 'SKYLARKS" - A Study in HIGH LIFE'.
Various locations of events.
Various shots of the Coliseum in Rome, Italy as we see men cleaning the building and clearing bird nests from the arches.
At London's Crystal Palace we see men climbing up the glass roof windows to clean them.
In New York, United States of America, we see various shots of electrical engineers climbing and walking about the girders of skyscrapers under construction (yikes!). Men sit on high girders to eat their lunch. View of nearby buildings shows three airships floating by. The men are seen sliding down the vertical girders to go home.
Note: film shows signs of decomposition.
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Description
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Data
- Archive
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 04/01/1934
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 51816
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Film ID:
- 1622.26
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration
- 00:01:24:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:54:09:00 / 01:55:33:00
- Canister:
- PSP 822
- Sort Number:
- PSP 822
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redman99 says
The RKO building.
Better remembered by those old pictures of a group of workers taking a lunch break (and a nap) atop a cross beam girder some 800 feet up (about the same height as the first Docklands Tower, London).
Resolution Man says
....my feet were tingling.....