Fireman Farmers Issue Title Pigs Might Fly! (1942)

Fireman Farmers. Part of PIGS MIGHT FLY! issue. London. Several shots of London firemen cleaning and polishing their engines and pumps. We then see a general view of a bombed area, where the enterprising firemen have built small pens for their pigs to live in. They tend the pigs and feed them with ’Soho Slush’ - leftovers from local restaurants. The firemen also tend their marrows in their garden and look at their rabbits in hutches. A black cat sits on a table beside a large rabbit. A fireman hold up two small ducks for the camera. Brief shots of the men rushing into the fire trucks and driving off after an emergency call. 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
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