Topical Budget Company

During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.

Battered, bandaged and playing croquet on crutches, wounded First World War soldiers get a break from the Western Front.

A gleaming giant of steam and its cute Lilliputian cousin are an even match in this newsreel battle of the trains.

The Valentine's card, 1920s-style. Two British actresses put lips to paper in a demonstration of the so-called "Kiss Valentine", leaving a lipstick imprint of the loving smooch in favour of a more traditional card.

“Chicago’s Titanic” the S.S. Eastland, a Great Lakes passenger ship in which 844 people lost their lives, is brought up from the seabed.

Druids, Romans and Norman knights return to Richmond for the 600th anniversary of the Yorkshire town's charter.

On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election.

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

Billy the pet seal adapts to village life in Wereham, Norfolk.

Scenes of WWI troops relaxing on Streatham Common, South London in a Topical Budget newsreel.

The start of the fox hunting season with the Cattistock Hunt in Maiden Newton, Dorset.

Surrey play Yorkshire at the Oval as the 1922 County Championship nears its conclusion.

Picturesque scenes of land girls gathering hay on an Essex farm during WWI.

'Our Day' badges and flags being sold in aid of wounded WWI soldiers are shown in this Topical Budget film.

Feathered friends prepare to meet their fate in this seasonal newsreel outing to a Norfolk turkey farm.

Colonial troops greet London's new Lord Mayor in a patriotic wartime ceremony.

The wedding of the Duke of York, the future George VI, to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Included on the BFI DVD "A Royal Occasion".

The devil makes the biggest splash at Cookham's famed regatta.

Talented and obedient Red Cross dogs prepare to rescue Berlin's wounded from the Front.