Topical Budget Company Movies

No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election.

The Valentine's card, 1920s-style. Two British actresses put lips to paper in a demonstration of the so-called "Kiss Valentine", leaving a lipstick...

During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.

The wedding of the Duke of York, the future George VI, to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

'Our Day' badges and flags being sold in aid of wounded WWI soldiers are shown in this Topical Budget film.

Recruits of Lord Kitchener's 'New Army' parade on Christmas morning.

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a British youth organisation founded in 1920 as an alternative to the Scout movement. This edition of the Topical...

Talented and obedient Red Cross dogs prepare to rescue Berlin's wounded from the Front.

Fashion has long been integral to the appeal of royal weddings, not least in the build up to the lavish nuptials of Princess Mary and Viscount...

After playing their last match of the season, ten Clapton Orient players enlist for the 'Footballer's Battalion'.

On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

Private Daly of the Connaught Rangers triumphs in the Aldershot Command annual cross country race, months before the outbreak of WWI.

Eton school's peculiar version of football.

'Brighter Blackpool Beauties' in bathing costumes parade themselves by the poolside.

A gleaming giant of steam and its cute Lilliputian cousin are an even match in this newsreel battle of the trains.

The start of the fox hunting season with the Cattistock Hunt in Maiden Newton, Dorset.

Dogs and cats go on show at two princely London venues – among them some of the fluffiest kittens London is ever likely to see.

The devil makes the biggest splash at Cookham's famed regatta.

Poignant scenes of Allied troops enjoying their Yuletide rations at the first Christmas of WWI.