News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

240-1

Date Released

29 Mar 1916

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. 'Jocks’ on the March
• 2. Artists OTC V St Bartholomews
• 3. Church Parade
• 4. Advance on the Eastern Front
• 5. Russian Artillery in Action

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "A battery of heavy artillery in action. The commanding officer signalling to the gunners to fire. Ammunition wagons dashing up with fresh supplies of shells." Continuation of the above. Gunners standing beside their machine guns behind a bank. Firing the guns at a signal from an officer. Two officers looking through binoculars from behind the barricade. Horse drawn wagon bringing ammunition.

Keywords

Weapons; Animals; Military

Length of story (in feet)

59

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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