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...

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

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

On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

World records tumble at the International and British Games for female athletes, held on 4 August 1924 at Stamford Bridge. One of the stars of the...

Druids, Romans and Norman knights return to Richmond for the 600th anniversary of the Yorkshire town's charter.

A gleaming giant of steam and its cute Lilliputian cousin are an even match in this newsreel battle of the trains.

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

Recruits of Lord Kitchener's 'New Army' parade on Christmas morning.

Dogs and cats go on show at two princely London venues – among them some of the fluffiest kittens London is ever likely to see.

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

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a British youth organisation founded in 1920 as an alternative to the Scout movement. This edition of the Topical...

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

Billy the pet seal adapts to village life in Wereham, Norfolk.

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

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

An aeronautical accident is caught on camera at a Parisian 'Aéro-Parc'.

Eton school's peculiar version of football.

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