Topical Budget Company Movies

No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election.

The Valentine's card, 1920s-style. Two British actresses put lips to paper in a demonstration of the so-called "Kiss Valentine", leaving a lipstick...

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

Talented and obedient Red Cross dogs prepare to rescue Berlin's wounded from the Front.

'Our Day' badges and flags being sold in aid of wounded WWI soldiers are shown in this Topical Budget film.

Lunch on the Eiffel Tower held in honour of the visit of the representatives of foreign municipalities.

A quick-fire round up of the FA Cup second round: West Brom v Corinthians, Crystal Palace v Notts County, and West Ham v Leeds. The cameraman manages...

FA Cup Semi-Final: Huddersfield Town v Notts County at Turf Moor. This newsreel item on the Turf Moor FA Cup Semi-Final 25 March 1922 captures the...

Fashion has long been integral to the appeal of royal weddings, not least in the build up to the lavish nuptials of Princess Mary and Viscount...

Poignant scenes of Allied troops enjoying their Yuletide rations at the first Christmas of WWI.

During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.

Feathered friends prepare to meet their fate in this seasonal newsreel outing to a Norfolk turkey farm.

The devil makes the biggest splash at Cookham's famed regatta.

Eton school's peculiar version of football.

Colonial troops greet London's new Lord Mayor in a patriotic wartime ceremony.

The wedding of the Duke of York, the future George VI, to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

Herr Nerz of Berlin University studies training methods at West Ham.

After the Muezzin has lead the call (adhan) to prayer we pan along the rows of worshippers, who then pray as non-muslims observe the ceremony. An...

Private Daly of the Connaught Rangers triumphs in the Aldershot Command annual cross country race, months before the outbreak of WWI.

The annual mop fair in Stratford-Upon-Avon, including the roasting of an ox.