News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

254-2

Date Released

8 Jul 1916

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Revels for a War Fund
• 2. Queen Mary Opens Hospital for Women
• 3. Switzerland’s Reception of English Prisoners
• 4. British Minister Receives the Men
• 5. Canadian Prisoners

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Wounded soldiers of the Toronto regiment, these were the first Canadians who fought in Belgium." Further continuation. Group of men and women dance for the camera. Men with baggage walk down street, helped by Boy Scouts. Men on stretchers carried along.

Keywords

Organisations; Music and dance; Casualties; Youth

Length of story (in feet)

60

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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