Latest Holiday Attraction - Tank Rides (1920)

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Intertitle: “LATEST HOLIDAY ATTRACTION. Visitors enjoy all the thrills - and bumps - of a Tank Joy Ride. “ High angle L/S of a tank driving down a busy shopping street. People sit on a wooden platform on top of the tank, at the front in a big banner advertising ’TANK JOY RIDES’. M/S, taken from the side, of the people carrying tank driving over rough ground, the people grip onto the sides and cheer - they appear to be having a lot of fun! On the ground a man chases off curious children getting too near to the tank. 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 Paramoun
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