News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Daily Sketch Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

576-1

Date Released

7 Sep 1922

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Two Queens at Royal Wedding
• 2. 'The Merry Little Partridge’
• 3. To the Men of the ‘Vindictive’
• 4. Men Who Film the World for You
• 5. Barnet’s Wild West
• 6. Little Lenglens
• 7. ''Opping by Motaw!'

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 7

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Kine Cameramens’ [sic] one day off, but ‘Topical’ (still working) - - - - takes the ‘First with the News Race’." The annual outing of the Kine Cameramen’s Society at Runnymede, including cameramen from Topical Budget. Group of cameramen lined up in a field with a variety of cameras. Face-on view as they run across field carrying their cameras towards a finishing tape. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "'Topicals’ [sic] close up of real ‘film faces’. Quite human are’nt [sic] they?". Close shot of a number of newsreel cameramen all pointing their cameras towards the camera and turning the handles.

Keywords

Mass media; Curiosities; Newsreels

Credits:

Camera

James J. Taylor

Length of story (in feet)

31

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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