Students Rag Day - Liverpool (1920-1930)

Students Rag Day in Liverpool, Lancashire (now Merseyside). MS as a procession of teenage boys come marching along carrying umbrellas and other items including a sign ’The Sacrifice of Sister Jane’, a tall pole; and an effigy of Sister Jane; wrapped in white sheets with a one-dimensional crown on her head made of paper. Some of the boys wear costumes: white robes or coats; top hats or tall cylindrical hats of cardboard, fake wigs and moustaches. They march around in street for a while. Then shot of a few of them on a platform with the effigy, one boy speaking through home-made megaphone. Shots of a few of the boys putting on some kind of performance; and shots of other boys watching and laughing, crowd of adult townspeople in background. They set fire to the effigy; dousing it with petrol to make a bonfire; then dance gleefully around the flames in a circle. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING