News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Daily Sketch Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

626-1

Date Released

23 Aug 1923

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Football!
• 2. Motor Football
• 3. The Fisherman’s ‘Cowes’
• 4. Great Missenden the ‘Kibbo Kift’
• 5. 'Punting’

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Meeting of new Kindred who aim at a race of Intellectual Barbarians. Mr HG Wells is a member of this camping fraternity, who combine the ideals of Scientists and Red Indians." Couple seated by camp fire. Group of people by tents in a field. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Tribe meets Tribe". One group give raised arm salutes to another group as it marches past. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "Council". Group seated in a circle in field, with other standing in the centre. Close shot of man in costume reading a proclamation. Return to shot of group in a circle. [4TH SUBTITLE]: "Handicrafts". Uniformed boys seated in front of tent carving pieces of wood [?]. [5TH SUBTITLE]: "'Kibboettes’". Five women perform a dance in front of a group of people. The dancers finish by all lying on the ground.

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Organisations

Credits:

Camera

Frank Danvers Yates

Length of story (in feet)

83

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

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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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