News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

279-1

Date Released

27 Dec 1916

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Alligator Farm
• 2. Review at the Front
• 3. Belgian Ammunition Store
• 4. Shells for the Guns
• 5. 'Tommys’ Xmas Leave

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Loading up railway wagon with shells of all sizes. Some of the shells are so heavy that they have to be rolled up an inclined platform." Men carrying a shell each out of a store filled with shells to nearby railway trucks (camera panning with them). In the background larger shells are rolled up along a board. Two closer shots of this.

Keywords

Weapons; Railways

Length of story (in feet)

77

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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