'Dry Docking’

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

804-1

Date Released

20 Jan 1927

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1'Dry Docking’
2. 2January Weddings
3. 3'Hoist with Its Own Petard’
4. 4All Out for Honours
5. 5Britain’s Might! Atlantic Fleet Proceeds to Sea

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "This quaint little Norfolk village receives its water supply daily at halfpenny per pail." A water cart, after filling up, makes its way into the village of Docking through a flock of sheep. Villagers queue up with pails for water which they then carry home. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Where there’s a will there’s a way". A man washes his car in the village pond.

Keywords

Vehicles; Social conditions

Length of story (in feet)

80

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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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