Xmas Rush Begins (1923)

Item title reads - Christmas rush begins. Post early and post often and help (General Post Office) in delivery of holiday mail. London. L/S of many large sacks of mail in a pile, postal workers throw more sacks on top and the camera pans across them. More workers empty the sacks and throw the parcels into a pile. M/S of all the parcels heaped up. The camera pans across as they are sorted into different sections. Intertitle - ’Remember! Pack securely and address clearly if you don’t want your parcel to be amongst these.’ M/S of parcels which have come open, a line of men repackage them and wrap them up again in brown paper. 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 t