According To Ancient Custom (1928)

Full titles read: ’According to Ancient Custom - Apprentices... each garbed in costume of 1,100 calves tails... celebrate their promotion to title of “journeymen butcher“.’ Munich, Germany. L/S panning across a large crowd in a street; at the front of the crowd are numerous men in white. M/S of young boys in uniforms and wearing white aprons. M/S of the apprentice butchers, covered in 1,100 calves tails, standing on a platform; you can hardly see their heads, they are completely hidden by the tails! M/S of the tail-covered men in a fountain, splashing water over the watching crowd. 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