News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

248-2

Date Released

27 May 1916

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Balkan Refugees
• 2. Messages for the Germans
• 3. The Blind Fiddler
• 4. Empire Day

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Turk, Bulgar and Greek refugees seeking work, are examined and photographed before receiving their pass." Army officers controlling a line of refugees. Officers sitting at a table checking the men’s papers and issuing passes. Posed scene with one of the refugees sitting on a chair ready to have his photograph taken. A soldier turn his head towards the camera (for filming).

Credits:

Camera

Ariel L. Varges

Length of story (in feet)

65

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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