Reel Number: 220470-07
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1945,1940s
Country: Australia
Location: Equator
TC Begins: 05:13:03
TC Ends: 05:13:44
Duration: 00:00:41
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Post-WWII - 1945, Australia: Crossing the Equator Ceremonies Intertitle: Newsettes by Lew Lehr... 05:13:08 Australian troops crossing the Equator returning home from Europe. Traditional joke ceremony in fancy dress, pretend to give haircut w/ axe then throwing man into water in small pool & dipping as men watch laughing. 05:13:23 Nurse also dunked. 05:13:40 Pillow fight w/ life-vests by men. Post-WW2; Ceremony; Ritual; Oddities; Gags; King Neptune; 1940s;