British and Best

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

950-1

Date Released

7 Nov 1929

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Watermen at Wedding of Famous Oarsman
2. 2Londoner’s Great Welcome to the King & Queen
3. 3Royal Visit to East End
4. 4Guy Fawkes Day
5. 5British and Best
6. 6A 300 Ft Geyser of Mud
7. *Royalty in the Midlands
8. *Judges’ Sunday in Liverpool
9. *A Civic Reception

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 6

Summary

Philip Turner breaks a new motor-boat speed record while crossing the English Channel.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Records

Length of story (in feet)

54

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries:
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

020 7580 7503

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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