J. P. Coats - Sports (1923)

Item title reads - J. P. Coats sports. Over 5000 competitors enter for the famous Thread Sports. Paisley, Scotland. M/S of a group of men and women standing about watching, C/U of the group, one man smokes a pipe. M/S of ladies in kilts doing Highland dancing on a platform, M/S as they jump off. M/S of a tug of war from behind one of the teams, others stand and judge. A boy is pushed along in a wheelbarrow, he tips up a bucket of water by pushing a wooden pole through a piece of wood underneath it. M/S of men running up a course. 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), a