Topical Budget Company Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

The start of the fox hunting season with the Cattistock Hunt in Maiden Newton, Dorset.

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

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...

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...

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

Women cricketers slog their male counterparts to the boundary in this fixture between Cobham Ladies and Manor Athletic in Richmond.

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