Burmese Water Festival (1946)

Unissued / Unused material. Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar). L/S hosepipe hosing people at Water Festival with Schwedagon Pagoda in background, a truck drives by in foreground. Various shots as people are hosed as part of festival, vehicles drive by and people run about as they are hosed down. Cataloguer’s note: the date on the original record reads 13/6/1946. 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.