News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

496-2

Date Released

28 Feb 1921

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Wedding of Famous Novelist’s Daughter
• 2. Duke of Connaught’s Indian Tour
• 3. Cambridge Steeplechases

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Mounted on an elephant the Duke goes hunting in the Bengal jungle." An elephant with several people on its back passes in front of the camera. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "From his shooting platform the Duke makes his first ‘bag’". He mounts on to a roughly made camouflaged platform in a tree. Native servants reconnoitre. The Duke inspects an animal he has shot. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "The hunting camp". The hunting party and the native servants sitting round a camp fire eating. The Duke inspecting his elephant and the heads of captured animals. Close-up of the Duke eating.

Keywords

Royalty; Sport; Animals; Hunting

Credits:

Camera

Harold Jeapes

Camera

Ulygate K. Whipple

Length of story (in feet)

180

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

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Phone

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Fax

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Address

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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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