This is a film made by Sheffield students of their Rag Week, highlighting the charities that benefit, and showing many of the events that take place during the week.  The soundtrack is missing. Quote:  “If charity doth not avail, then shall thy drink be merely ale.” William Kremple (1595-1665) Title – Suddenly Its Rag Production Team: B D Clay M Norman John M Ridout E G Hudson John Sherwood R L R Wheat John Fitzgerald Music by Jack Sumner Gavin Bryars Martin Sann Rag Chairman...

This is a film made by Sheffield students of their Rag Week, highlighting the charities that benefit, and showing many of the events that take place during the week.  The soundtrack is missing. Quote:  “If charity doth not avail, then shall thy drink be merely ale.” William Kremple (1595-1665) Title – Suddenly Its Rag Production Team: B D Clay M Norman John M Ridout E G Hudson John Sherwood R L R Wheat John Fitzgerald Music by Jack Sumner Gavin Bryars Martin Sann Rag Chairman Martin Leigh The film begins on the steps of the Town Hall where a ceremony is taking place.  Along with several dignitaries, a black man in a University gown, holding a Rag collection tin, speaks into the microphone.  In Fitzalan Square, and also outside Sheffield Cathedral, students are collecting for Rag Week.  Some people release balloons.  Outside the University buildings of Western Bank, a group of students cling together while standing on a small raised platform to see how many can get on.  Back in the city centre the rag parade makes its way around the pond in the road where Barkers pool meets Pinstone Street, filmed from opposite the Town Hall, looking down Leopold Street.  At the Students’ Union bar, students are downing pints of beer and setting off on the Rag Beer Marathon pub crawl.  One participant comes out of the Adelphi Hotel, and some participants arrive back to have their final pint. Then the Rag Chairman, Martin Leigh, sitting in his office, addresses the camera and shows pictures of malnourished children from around the world.  The film then moves to Lodge Moor Sports Club where wheelchair users are practising archery, and others are playing table tennis and a game of basketball.  It then returns to Martin Leigh and to the black man standing in front of a large crowd, before it then returns again back to the students selling balloons outside the Cathedral.   At a theatre, a play is shown in performance, and then the film moves on to the Students Union where a folk concert is taking place with two men playing together followed by two solo men singers with acoustic guitars, the second one looking like Martin Carthy. In Firth Hall, a big swing jazz band is playing.  A group of students stand in front of a large barrel of beer posing for the camera outside Western Bank, and then another group does the same indoors, with BBC cameras in attendance.  Again we see students attempting a record of how many can stand together on top of a small platform, filmed by the BBC.  Then there are is large group of male students walking along a street, and then carrying a very long rope which they take to some playing field.  Then back to the students’ union where a dinner function is taking place and there is the presentation of the trophy to the winner of the Beer Marathon. The Rag parade is assembling on Northumberland Avenue, with a Viking ship at the front.  The procession then sets off past Western Bank and is next seen outside the Town Hall, where dignitaries watch from the balcony. Students line a wall overlooking the Don, with the Cannon Brewery behind, watching the Rag boat race along the river.  Then in the evening, there is a large bonfire, presumably of material used on the procession, and then to the Locarno where there is dancing, including doing the twist, to a jazz band.  At the end there is the draw for the raffle, with a Billy Fury lookalike doing the draw.  The film finishes back at the organising centre of the Rag Week, with collection tins being returned and the money being counted. Title – The End