News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

279-2

Date Released

30 Dec 1916

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Goose Raises £100
• 2. Boxing Day Sports
• 3. Canadians in Paris
• 4. Lord Mayor with the Crippled Children
• 5. Aldermanic Santa Claus

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "The military Marathon in aid of the British Sportsmen’s Motor Ambulance Fund being run in a thick fog." Men coming out of building. Start of the race. Runners turning at crowded corner. Men leading the winner down road. Close-up of exhausted winner. Close-up of another runner.

Keywords

Sport; Fundraising; Military

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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