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.

Eton school's peculiar version of football.

MPs take to the Oval for a game of cricket.

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

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

Essex County cricket team get some much needed practice in the nets at the County Ground, Leyton.

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...

It looks so formidable, but the diver just fires the mine and up it goes like matehwood!

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".

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

'Brighter Blackpool Beauties' in bathing costumes parade themselves by the poolside.

Stunning views from the boundary of the 1921 Australian touring team's first match.

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

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

Jack Hobbs reaches his 124th century at the Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's.

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

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