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Topical Budget 1020-2: Dizzy Heights (1931)
 

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Title: "Our cameraman enjoys the doubtful pleasure of climbing with the workmen engaged on the erection of huge exhibition buildings in Paris."

A workman climbs up a tall building by means of a ladder attached to the scaffolding. Other workmen make various adjustments, reaching the higher parts by using the scaffolding itself as a makeshift ladder.