News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

818-1

Date Released

28 Apr 1927

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. A ‘Leek’ in the Cup!
• 2. Anzac Day
• 3. To Shakespeare’s Memory
• 4. Surrey - is Pillion-Riding Safe?
• 5. 'Kiss or Give a Penny!'
• 6. Whole Village Comes to London
• *Presentation of Cheque
• *Rugged Roads
• *Zeebrugge Day
• *Zeebrugge Day

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "The 363rd Anniversary of the Birth of the Poet celebrated by the unfurling of many National Flags." View down at street scene with crowds on either side and flagpoles down sides and centre of road. Closer shot with street now crowded over. Dignitaries enter Shakespeare’s birthplace. Dignitaries passing through town in procession. Similar shot with Town Crier. Carrying wreaths. Rear view of children in distance going down wooded path through graveyard to a church. Dignitaries pass by on same route. People pass by along path.

Keywords

Commemorations; Celebrations and festivals

Length of story (in feet)

54

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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