Kitkat Rascals Issue Title - Going Places (1937)

Kitkat Rascals. Part of the GOING PLACES issue. Pathe Studios, London. Marching saxophone band play “a medley of well-known numbers“. They band march about set in a light-hearted manner. All the musicians are obviously white but wear ’black-face’ makeup. They all wear bell boy style uniforms. Modern viewers may find black-face make up racist. FILM ID:1240.4 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.
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