News in Brief: Fire Walkers

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1298

Date Released

19 Apr 1954

Date Other

Mar 1954

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Royal Children Leave
2. 2Table Tennis Champs
3. 3News in Brief: Weird Find in Chile
4. 4News in Brief: Fire Walkers
5. 5News in Brief: Russian Elections
6. 6Hazards of Water Skiing

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Section Title

News in Brief

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Fire Walkers. DESCRIPTION: Fire-walking as a ritual of purification, abandoned fifty years ago in Japan, has now been revived at a place near Tokyo. SHOTLIST: Cut story - Members of priestly order walk across burning embers. Men & women. Purification ritual.

Keywords

Curiosities; Religion and belief

Locations

Tokyo

Footage sources

United States of America

Card file number

60807

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

38

Story extras:

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