King Carnival (1921)

Item title reads - King Carnival. Seated on a stork, symbol of Alsace-Lorraine, ’returns’ from liberated province to lead first post-war carnival. Nice, France. Various shots of the huge model of the man on the stork, it is surrounded by people. Intertitle - ’The Pelican - most greedy of birds - represented “Mr Profiteer“.’ M/S of the model of the pelican surrounded by baskets of food, there is a model of a man, who looks a bit like Charlie Chaplin, holding its neck and raising his fist. 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