News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

210-2

Date Released

4 Sep 1915

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Fire Brigade Heroes
• 2. Swimming Gala at Chiswick
• 3. Funeral at the Front
• 4. Week-End Leave
• 5. A Nation’s Honour

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "After strenuous training in route marching etc., Tommy appreciates his week-end leave when en route for home." Line of troops march past camera down country road. Four women in background wave as they pass. Train leaving station full of troops who wave to the camera.

Keywords

Railways; Military

Length of story (in feet)

49

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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