News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

769-2

Date Released

24 May 1926

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. King’s Yacht ‘Britannia’
• 2. Queen at Aldershot
• 3. Mr Neville Chamberlain Minister of Health
• 4. Opening of the Polo Season
• 5. 'Battle of Hastings’
• 6. South African Bowling Team on Tour
• 7. Empire Day
• *The Passing of ‘Johnny’
• *Return of the ‘President’
• *Manchester Specials Reviewed
• *Polo Season Opens
• *Tattoo Rehearsal
• *South African Team of Bowlers
• *Empire Day

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary

Review of Manchester Special Police.

Local distribution only

MANCHESTER

Keywords

Ceremonies; Police

Length of story (in feet)

60

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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