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...

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...

Colonial troops greet London's new Lord Mayor in a patriotic wartime ceremony.

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

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

Druids, Romans and Norman knights return to Richmond for the 600th anniversary of the Yorkshire town's charter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The annual mop fair in Stratford-Upon-Avon, including the roasting of an ox.

Witness a breakthrough athletics event which paved the way for women to compete more fully at the Olympic Games. Although the games at the time...

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

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

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

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

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.