(Untitled record)

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

1

Date Released

1 Sep 1911

Stories in this Issue:

1. *(Untitled record)

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary

"No 1 of The Topical Budget. News by animation is the coming fashion and therefore the multiplication of the number of moving picture newspapers will be hailed with delight both by exhibitors and public alike. Competition stimulates business, and therefore, with the advent of each new comer in the field there is bound to be a levelling up all round. This week the Topical Films Co., of 50 Grays Inn Road, WC, have published the first number of the Topical Budget and we are bound to admit that they have scored a decided triumph. The photographic quality was A1, whilst editing had been so capably managed that the edition included the Royal Naval and Marine Tournament, the Fleet Street £20,000 Fire, The Ebor Handicap, the King of Italy at the Military Hospital, Roman Dreadnought’s Last Voyage, Amateur Punting Competition at Shepperton and the Latest Fashions in Gowns. Issued with a punctuality that did the proprietors infinite credit The Budget was shown at the Alhambra, by Jury’s Pictures, the Pyke Circuit, Ruffell’s Bioscope and Walturdaw’s. The Budget appears to have leapt at a single bound into popularity, and that in a week when opportunities for illustrated news were remarkably scarce. Next week’s number promised to be a bumper and as Topical Films Co., are laying themselves open to this class of work exhibitors would be wise to keep their eye on them." ('Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly’ 7/9/1911 p969).

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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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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