America’s Big Ben (1928)

Full titles read: ’America’s “Big Ben“ - Agile beauty specialists give him his “annual“.’ (Title card shows signs of decomposing.) United States of America. L/S of a tall clock tower with a dome at the top; M/S of the clock face shows two men being lowered down on little swings from a doorway so they can clean the clock. M/Ss looking down on the men from the doorway and then looking up at them, presumably from the top floor window of the building; they wave at the camera. L/S shows the men swinging about on their ropes, having great fun, but not doing much cleaning work! 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 (1