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Topical Budget 706-2: Winter On Way From USA? (1925)
 

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9/3/1925
35mm, black and white, 109 feet
 
Production CompanyTopical Film Company

New York City copes with an unusually cold spell.

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Given Britons' unending preoccupation with the elements, it's not surprising that Topical Budget should have had an eye for a good weather story. This item, from March 1925, shows a New York suffering a spectacular cold spell: telephone lines sag from the weight of snow, while passenger ferries struggle through semi-frozen waters. Typically, Topical Budget accentuates the positive - "Enough ter 'freeze yer marrer'!", reads one title, while later shots depict New Yorkers making the best of the situation with ski-jumping and ice-skating. To the relief of TB and Londoners, the cold front never made it across the Atlantic, but four years later, London experienced a deep freeze of its own, as documented in Topical's 'Arctic London' (1929).

Mark Duguid

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Topical Budget 912-1: Arctic London (1929)
A Very Topical Year: 1925