Paris £3m Fire (1921)

No title, paperwork reads - $3,000,000 fire - Grand Magasins du Printemps - the “Harrods“ of Paris, destroyed. The camera pans down over the smouldering, collapsed wreckage of the building. Some tables are outside and three firemen walk round and look at the wreckage. L/S of the charred roof and dome with smoke coming out. L/S of the building, all the windows have been blown out. 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 of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.