News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

208-2

Date Released

21 Aug 1915

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Red Cross Sports
• 2. Viceroy at Limerick
• 3. Vice-Regal Procession
• 4. Training Mules for the Army
• 5. USA Excursion Steamer Disaster

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Rescuers working on the ‘Eastland’ which capsized in the Chicago River. Over one thousand people being drowned." The overturned hull of the ‘Eastland’ in the Chicago River, with rescue workers and shots of the damage.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Accidents and disasters

Length of story (in feet)

63

This series is held by:

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).

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