Topical Budget Company

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

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

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

“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.

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

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

Dogs and cats go on show at two princely London venues – among them some of the fluffiest kittens London is ever likely to see.

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

Private Daly of the Connaught Rangers triumphs in the Aldershot Command annual cross country race, months before the outbreak of WWI.

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

Footage of Spurs players training before the new football season, followed by shots of White Hart Lane being prepared.

The British Fascist movement holds a 10,000-strong rally in Trafalgar Square the day before Remembrance Sunday.

An aeronautical accident is caught on camera at a Parisian 'Aéro-Parc'.

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

The annual mop fair in Stratford-Upon-Avon, including the roasting of an ox.

Poignant scenes of Allied troops enjoying their Yuletide rations at the first Christmas of WWI.

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

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

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

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