News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

903-2

Date Released

17 Dec 1928

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Hants. Father Christmas Among the Cripples
• 2. 'HMS Norfolk’
• 3. Lincs. Passing Out Day
• 4. Not as Easy as It Looks
• 5. Novelties in Toyland
• 6. Paris. A Ripe Old Age
• 7. 'Ts Canterbury’

Story

Story No. within this Issue

7 / 7

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Lady Walker sponsors Southern Railway’s new transport ship, launched at the Leven shipyard, Dumbarton." Close shot of Lady Walker smashing a bottle against the ship’s bows. It moves, stern first, down the slipway into the water. Side view of the decorated hull in the water.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Aristocracy; Launchings

Length of story (in feet)

36

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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