Results: Stories
3,792 results found for '"Curiosities"' in Keyword.
Little Dames V Big Dames
- Date released
- 2 May 1914
- Series name
- Topical Budget
- Issue no
- 140-2
- NoS ID
- 125033
- Story no
- 4 / 4
Charity football match at Camberwell.
Regimental Sports of the 9th (Queens) Royal Lancers
- Date released
- 25 Jul 1914
- Series name
- Topical Budget
- Issue no
- 152-2
- NoS ID
- 125089
- Story no
- 5 / 5
[SUBTITLE]: "Held in the riding school arena, Moolton [sic] Barracks, Tidworth." Regimental sports, including piercing a dummy horse and rider with a spear, firing a pistol at sticks placed in the ground, a...
A Canine Collector
- Date released
- 26 Nov 1914
- Series name
- Gaumont Graphic
- Issue no
- 384
- NoS ID
- 382611
- Story no
- 5 / 7
NoS synopsis: A man driving a trap stops to life his small dog onto the horses’s back where it stays as the horse continues trotting
Military Sports at Hurst Park
- Date released
- 8 Sep 1915
- Series name
- Topical Budget
- Issue no
- 211-1
- NoS ID
- 125341
- Story no
- 4 / 5
[SUBTITLE]: "The 3/6th City of London Regimental Sports." With mop fight and obstacle race.
Marriage by Proxy
- Date released
- 8 Dec 1915
- Series name
- Topical Budget
- Issue no
- 224-1
- NoS ID
- 125451
- Story no
- 3 / 4
[SUBTITLE]: "The French authorities are allowing soldiers serving at the Front to nominate a friend to act for them at their wedding ceremony. A French ‘poilu’ taking the part of bridegroom for his...
Making Him Squeal
- Date released
- 9 Dec 1915
- Series name
- Gaumont Graphic
- Issue no
- 492
- NoS ID
- 076090
- Story no
- 3 / 5
French soldiers in full pack captures German soldiers wearing gas-mask and gas cylinder on back. Cartoon.
Equine Tonsorial Service
- Date released
- 13 Dec 1915
- Series name
- Gaumont Graphic
- Issue no
- 493
- NoS ID
- 076094
- Story no
- 2 / 6
Army horse shaved by electric clippers driven by manually operated generator.
'Jellicoe Dolls’. Men of the Grand Fleet Make Very Good Dolls
- Date released
- 17 Jan 1916
- Series name
- Gaumont Graphic
- Issue no
- 503
- NoS ID
- 076145
- Story no
- 5 / 5
Animated dolls.
London Under Snow
- Date released
- 26 Feb 1916
- Series name
- Topical Budget
- Issue no
- 235-2
- NoS ID
- 125536
- Story no
- 2 / 5
[SUBTITLE]: "The (Snow) Battle of London. Members of the Inns of Court OTC have a pitched battle near their training camp." Cadets snowball-fighting in a park.
Revels for a War Fund
- Date released
- 8 Jul 1916
- Series name
- Topical Budget
- Issue no
- 254-2
- NoS ID
- 125705
- Story no
- 1 / 5
[SUBTITLE]: "Sir Francis Lloyd inspects the guard of honour, composed of wounded men. An Alfresco fête in aid of funds to teach a trade to wounded soldiers." Low level shot of Lloyd inspecting troops....