A ‘White’ Christmas

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

853-1

Date Released

29 Dec 1927

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Man’s Best Friend - Or Enemy!
2. 2Skating on Stilts
3. 3A ‘White’ Christmas
4. 4All the Year Round
5. 5Fire and Frost

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "North, South, East and West - Winter spreads her crystal mantle over the British Isles." Man and car buried in snow. People trying to push car through snow. People in a snow-covered street. Children on a sledge. People walking along street carrying skis. Various shots of people on sledges and toboggans. Throwing snowballs. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Just like home!". Polar bears in Regent’s Park Zoo in the snow. Keeper feeding fish to sea lions. Penguins.

Keywords

Vehicles; Weather; Animals

Length of story (in feet)

110

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

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Address

21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN

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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