QUIRKY: Candidates for the coldest job (1926)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit A look at various cold jobs including policeman, iceman, Buckingham Palace sentry, news vendor and telegraph pole repairman. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: ’Which is the coldest job?’ We don’t know - but here is a little ’raw’ material from which you can draw your own conclusions. ENGLAND: Various locations: EXT Policeman on sentry duty Men using tongs to move large blocks of ice Sentry wearing bearskin hat (cap) on guard duty outside Buckingham Palace Newspaper salesman on street corner Men on top of telegraph pole SPEEDED UP SEQ man climbing down pole Background: A look at various cold jobs including policeman, iceman, Buckingham Palace sentry, news vendor and telegraph pole repairman. FILM ID: VLVA6U3MRK2B32W4GPQCCM3B469JM To license this film, visit
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