British Pathe's Cutest Animals

British Pathe's Cutest Animals (2/7)

The British Pathé archive holds some of the first ever moving images of animals, and indeed animals have long proved a popular subject matter. Before the days of David Attenborough and the Discovery Channel zoos were often the destination of choice for equipment-heavy camera crews. In this gallery we’ve compiled photos of “cute” animals from different decades within the archive.

Described in the canister notes as one of a kind, this white coyote was filmed in Salt Lake City, Utah nearly 100 years ago. We gave ‘white coyote’ a Google Image search just now and couldn’t find much – so who knows – maybe they are really rare?

12 Coolest Swimming Hats

: Forget the tightly fitted, unflattering, rubber swimming caps we are all familiar with today. The 1960s saw colourful, flowery and exotic bathing...

@britishpathe on Twitter

18 May 2012: Have a good weekend boys and girls. Everyone? Hello? Nope, you've gone...
18 May 2012: We're making buntings in the archive. Bit early?
18 May 2012: @SaffronKim Oh how the weeks fly!
18 May 2012: Chinese and Japanese air stewardesses are trained in Heston in 1956: http://t.co/TDoD7CTu
18 May 2012: The BBC have gone live with a rare interview with Sacha Baron Cohen as himself: http://t.co/ZX2BDke7

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