Topical Budget Company Movies

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...

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

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...

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

Billy the pet seal adapts to village life in Wereham, Norfolk.

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

FA Cup Semi-Final: Huddersfield Town v Notts County at Turf Moor. This newsreel item on the Turf Moor FA Cup Semi-Final 25 March 1922 captures the...

Eton school's peculiar version of football.

Blind soldiers from St. Dunstan's Hostel row on Regent's Park Lake.

Herr Nerz of Berlin University studies training methods at West Ham.

Scenes of WWI troops relaxing on Streatham Common, South London in a Topical Budget newsreel.

It looks so formidable, but the diver just fires the mine and up it goes like matehwood!

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

Battered, bandaged and playing croquet on crutches, wounded First World War soldiers get a break from the Western Front.

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

Stunning views from the boundary of the 1921 Australian touring team's first match.

England battered by Bardsley in the second Test against Australia at Lord's.

It's spring time at Regent's Park Zoo and "the children's paradise awakes to life", with hoards of visitors ogling the brown bears, mountain goats...

MPs take to the Oval for a game of cricket.

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