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.

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

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

Heavy snowfall makes Christmas dreams come true for residents across Britain.

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

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

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...

Picturesque scenes of land girls gathering hay on an Essex farm during WWI.

Witness a breakthrough athletics event which paved the way for women to compete more fully at the Olympic Games. Although the games at the time...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

A masterful innings by Australian batsman Macartney in the third test at Headingley.

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