Ball Game Aka Handball Issue Title Is Quiet Please (1946)

Part of issue QUIET PLEASE. Jedburgh, Borders, Scotland. L/S of town. Various shots of men boarding up shop windows and covering lamps with baskets. A crowd of young men and boys gathers in the street. A leather ball is thrown into crowd. Various shots of scrummage as boys try to get the ball. The game is the traditional, annual Candlemas Ball Fight - two teams from each end of town try to gain possession of the ball. 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