• Short Summary

    Soldiers show off their bike-riding skill at Prague's School for Military Cyclists, and tin soldiers are made and put in battle scenes.

  • Description

    Titles read: "CINEVIEWS IN BRIEF".

    Various locations of events.

    At the School for Military Cyclists near Prague in Czechoslovakia we see soldiers riding around fields on bicycles. They ride over logs and seesaws, leapfrog over travelling cyclists and balance bike riders in formation. One heavy load of several soldiers on three bikes collapses to the ground.

    Various shots of men making tiny tin soldiers using moulds and liquid tin. Numerous finished soldiers are seen in ancient battle scenes. (Location of events unknown.)

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1162.28
    Media URN:
    40188
    Group:
    Pathetones
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    31/01/1938
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:42:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:55:05:00 / 01:56:47:00
    Canister:
    PT 410

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