'Daventry Calling

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

727-1

Date Released

30 Jul 1925

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Thrills in Paris Grand Prix
2. 2Glorious Goodwood
3. 3'Daventry Calling
4. 4Amazons at the Wicket
5. 5Pla Sports

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "...Wind and rain against my voices fight in vain’: Postmaster-General opens ‘5XX’, the world’s greatest broadcasting station." Shot of the wireless masts. Group of officials standing at the base of one of the masts. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "500 feet high!". Camera tilts up from base of mast. Scene inside the station. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "The valves by which 22 million people can listen in". Shots of a valve, of a small girl listening in and of one of the aerial masts.

Keywords

Communications; Science and technology

Length of story (in feet)

59

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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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