Fleet Street Entertains Disabled Fighters

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

245-1

Date Released

3 May 1916

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Artificial Limb Making
2. 2Fleet Street Entertains Disabled Fighters
3. 3St George’s Flag Day
4. 4Specials at Church Parade
5. 5Special Constables’ Sunday

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "A hundred disabled men who have all been fitted with artificial limbs going off to the Press Club. They are able to run and jump almost as well as before they were disabled." Group of disabled men on crutches stand to attention, turn smartly on the order and move off. Men lining path of the Press Club cheer as two men run round the bend. Man with an artificial leg vaults over a chair. Disabled soldiers climb up onto the top of a double-decker bus.

Keywords

Casualties; Disabled persons

Length of story (in feet)

62

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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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