Japanese Fireman’s Sport (1925)

Item title reads - Japanese firemen’s sports all excel at ladder drill and nearly every one is an acrobat. Hiroshima, Japan. L/S as two firemen climb up a ladder, they both turn upside down and hang from it. Others do more acrobatic tricks on ladders in the background. M/S of the two, one balances on the other’s back and they hang off the ladder, he puts up a parasol. M/S as they do acrobatics and hang from the ladder on a rope with hoops on the end. M/S as one man balances on the back of the other man then falls off, the other catches him by his ankle. Then he does upside down balancing tricks on the rope and hoops the other man is holding. Note: there is another version of this item with the same title and footage which is tinted green. It is on *PM0378*. 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.