Description: The cowboys, in London for the Empire Exhibition, arrive in a stretched, open-topped car, one carrying a lasso and most in Stetsons. We then meet Tex Austin, the “rodeo boss”, Maud Elder, a laughing cowgirl, and “Skeeter” Bill Robbins, who acted in Westerns and here impersonates an Englishman, with monocle and cigar. The rest of the film consists of dramatic footage of cowboys riding bulls and bucking broncos – there are several spills – to demonstrate “the sort of thrill that tingles the blood at Wembley”.

The cowboys made an impact as soon as they arrived in London, when one, sitting on bonnet of a car, yelled, "I want to rope a red-headed girl" before lassoing a blonde. Hats of passing Londoners were also lassoed. The show was spectacularly popular, drawing 40,000 twice a day, but caused some controversy – and cost the promoters a few dollars – when the RSPCA alleged cruelty after an animal’s leg was broken during steer roping. The cowboys were forced to take to court to defend their show.

Selected by London's Screen Archives on behalf of the BFI National Archive.