1925 Handcuff Escape Film

Posted by Peter Monticup on 2/24/2025 to Magic History 101

VINTAGE HANDCUFF ESCAPE SHORT FILM
A 1925 'tutorial" on how to escape from handcuffs, from British Pathe...

Pathé News was a producer of newsreels and documentaries in the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1970.
Its founder, Charles Pathé, was a pioneer of moving pictures in the silent era.
The Pathé News archive is known today as British Pathé.
The archive is home to many vintage documentary shorts like this one.

By the way, this is a SILENT film!
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