News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

679-1

Date Released

28 Aug 1924

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Mars Nearer the Earth Than for 100 Years
• 2. London’s Traffic Too Much for London’s Bridges
• 3. Prince’s Bold Bid for Privacy on Holiday

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Greenwich Observatory keeps a calm official eye on the ‘Red Planet’." Technician sits down to look through giant telescope. 2ND SUBTITLE]: "The Editor of ‘Popular Wireless’ listens in on a 24 valve set in the hope of detecting life of Mars". Brief shot of him at the controls of the set and another shot of a man operating it.

Keywords

Science and technology

Length of story (in feet)

80

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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