News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

757-2

Date Released

1 Mar 1926

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Chelsea Arts Ball
• 2. Eton ‘Steeple’
• 3. Fasting as a Cure for All Ills!
• 4. 'Roosevelt’ Heroes Reach New York
• 5. 'Handsomest Crew Since the War’
• *Scotland V Ireland

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "When this picture was taken Lady Fisher had eaten no food for 29 days." Close-up of Lady Fisher. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Her companion had also fasted for 29 days". Close-up of the two women. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "Jazzing on emptiness". A number of people dancing in front of the entrance to a large house. [4TH SUBTITLE]: "After ten days fast". One of the company doing exercises. [5TH SUBTITLE]: "Hearty lunch - a sip of water". The assembled company drinking water.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Curiosities; Aristocracy

Length of story (in feet)

63

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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