News on Screen

Dates

1913 - 1917

History

Eclair Journal was a silent newsreel which was launched in March 1913, but which failed during the First World War, probably in 1917. For a period during 1916 it was sharing stories with Topical Budget, but the reasons for this arrangement are not known. It was the British off-shoot of the French parent company Eclair.

Provenance

This database is an attempt to reconstruct the output of the Eclair Journal from details published in contemporary trade journals, particularly the Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly.

Other Information

There is no known current rights owner for Eclair Journal. Only around forty individual stories now survive, held by the bfi National Archive.

Films in this series can be obtained from:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries: nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk For commercial/footage reuse enquiries: footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN

Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

Series held

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