TOPICAL BUDGET 280-1 [Main Title]

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  • Title: TOPICAL BUDGET 280-1 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: NTB 280-1
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  • Summary: I. Bob sleighing in Canada. II. Serbian troops receive their pay. III. Belgian gun limbers are ammunitioned. IV. Chanukah hampers are distributed to Jewish crippled children.
  • Description: I. 'BOB SLEIGHING IN CANADA. One of the many winter sports, the new Governor-General the Duke of Devonshire, will witness in Canada. Bob sleighing being an extremely popular form of enjoyment.' A team of eleven women get on a sledge and set off down a gentle slope watched by a few onlookers. A smaller sledge carrying four men follows them. The sledge run is along a town street. MS as a sledge upsets and skids over to the side of the road in a cloud of snow and ice. Onlookers scurry out of the way. The sledge is righted and the crash victims are helped up - one man is pulled upright only to immediately fall down again. II. 'PAY DAY FOR THE SERBS. The paymaster of a Serbian Regiment issuing vouchers to the men in the Serbian village.' Man in Western-style civilian dress hands out vouchers to a motley crew of uniformed Serbs. HA.MS over the crowd - the men are in good humour and some start to wave their caps at the cameraman. III. 'MUNITION WORKERS EFFORTS. Owing to the enormous production of shells at the munition factories, Belgian artillerymen are well supplied with ammunition.' MS as ammunition limbers are drawn up behind parked lorries. 'FOOD FOR THE GUNS. The limber waggons are filled up and the teams drive off to the field batteries.' Chains of soldiers pass 75mm shells from lorries to limbers. Once the limbers are full they are driven off. The episode covers the ammunitioning of two separate columns, for during mid-sequence the direction of the limbers changes from head on to a rear view, the camera position remaining unchanged. III. 'CITY'S GIFT TO CRIPPLED CHILDREN. Sir W. Treloar and the Lord Mayor dispatch hampers to the crippled children of the metropolis.' Pan over a group of bulky top-hatted dignitaries standing by the kerbside. A horse-drawn wagon of Carter Paterson and Company draws up - the front of the wagon is decorated with flyers advertising John Bull magazine and its leader '1917 Victory Certain' by Horatio Bottomley. The wagoneer is given a letter - presumably one of instruction - and drives off. This procedure is repeated with other Carter Paterson wagons - one of the drivers is a woman. MS of the mayor and aldermen sitting about a small table on which one of the wooden hampers lies opened to reveal its contents - apparently rather spartan fair. The box bears the legend 'Crippled Childrens Homes Sir Wm TRELOAR FUND'.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: NTB 280-1
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (NTB 280-1)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917-01-06
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Treloar, William (person) Dunn, William Henry (person) London, Lord Mayor of (person) Serbian Army, Pay Corps (regiment/service) Belgian Army, artillery (regiment/service) Sir William Treloar Fund (regiment/service) Carter Paterson (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: recreation, Canadian civilian - sport: bob sleighing (object name) ceremonies, Serbian - customary: pay parade (object name) supplies, Belgian, movement - munitions (object name) weapons, Belgian - shell: 75mm (object name) society, British - charity: hampers for crippled children (object name) Canada (geography) London, England, UK (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 299 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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