Cross posted on H-Film & Screen-L (my apologies for duplication) A war historian friend has asked me about finding the following British films concerning the awarding of the Victoria Cross. I am woefully uninformed about this topic. Therefore, I am unable to help him but thought that perhaps some of you might be able to point us in some helpful directions. Here's the information we have in terms of the films and their availability in the past. _Victoria Cross Race by Military Cyclists_ in A Selected Catalogue of the Best and Most Interesting `Hepwix' Films, Hepworth & Co., 1903, 10. _How Tommy won the Victoria Cross -- An Incident of the Soudan War_, Warwick Trading Co., Ltd., 1901 Catalogue, 134. _How a C.I.V. won the Victoria Cross_ in Walker, Turner & Dawson's Animated Photographs for the Cinematograph, 1901, 4 _On the issue of winning V.C.'s_, see Britain's Welcome to Her Sons (which is also a filmed music hall routine), in New Animatograph Films, R.W. Paul, 1903, n.p; Low, British Film, 1: 48. _"Still Worthy of his Name_," Animated Photographs, Jury's Imperial Bioscope, c. 1905, 13; Low, British Film, 2: 42, 125, 135 You may respond via the list of to me directly at: [log in to unmask] Thank you, Emmett __________________ J. Emmett Winn Film Studies Instructor Dept. of Communication 217 Tichenor Hall Auburn University, AL 36849-5211 334-844-2761 fax 334-844-4665 [log in to unmask] http://www.auburn.edu/~winnjoh ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.