Transport Through the Ages

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

736-1

Date Released

1 Oct 1925

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The King in Kilts
2. 2Duke of Richmond’s Grandaughter Weds
3. 3200 Miles Motor Race
4. 4Battersea’s Old Lady
5. 5Transport Through the Ages
6. 6Woman Owner Wins Newbury Cup

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Railway men stage own pageant to mark centenary of locomotives." Procession of pageant queen attended by sea cadets. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "A prehistoric ‘Pullman’". Men in caveman costume pulling a stone on a sleigh on to the stage. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "Introducing horse power". Team of two horses attended by man and woman. [4TH SUBTITLE]: "When transport workers got the hump!". Man in Arab costume rides a camel onto the stage followed by wife and baggage on another camel. [5TH SUBTITLE]: "The first ‘Grand Trunk’". Two men dressed as Indian rajahs and a woman riding an elephant with baggage on a second elephant. A modern steam engine pulls a passenger train out of a station. [6TH SUBTITLE]: "A carriage cleaner’s daughter was the pageant’s lovely queen". Close shots of her with girl attendants.

Keywords

Commemorations; Women; Curiosities; Celebrations and festivals; Fashion and costume; Animals

Length of story (in feet)

65

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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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