News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Daily Sketch Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

580-2

Date Released

9 Oct 1922

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Lady Fencing Champion Wedding
• 2. Battle of Hastings 1066
• 3. Thousands of British Girls Want to Be a Film Star
• 4. Tanks at Smyrna

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Who will be the one chosen for fame by Miss Norma Talmadge through the DAILY SKETCH?." Close shot of Norma Talmadge in costume, reading from a book, and in close-up [from feature film SMILIN’ THROUGH (US 1922)]. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Competitors and the Winner will be shown Exclusively in the TOPICAL BUDGET".

Keywords

Mass media; Competitions; Performing arts; Newsreels

Length of story (in feet)

29

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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