KEYWORDS: TRADE, INDUSTRY, MANUFACTURING

Pathe covered many processes involved in manufacturing because they were often very cinematic, especially when set to music. They also covered many industrial exhibitions and fairs, usually because they were attended by royalty.

The British Industry Fair occurred almost every year during the Pathe era, and was always covered by the newsreel.

Royalty also often visited industrial plants, especially during the war, to support British manufacturing and mining.

On a less positive note Pathe featured many industrial strikes and disputes over the decades, particularly in the periods after the two wars.

Production coverage includes; tea, tin mining, building (hospitals, motorways, houses, bridges etc) lace making, bricks, cars, clay mining, money (minting), oil (from nuts), weaving, iron casting, leather tanning, paper, cigarettes, cheese, margarine, textiles, bread, lorries, vans, glass, light bulbs, plastics, rail tracks, parking meters, nylon stockings, telescope mirrors, swords, crockery, skis, pharmaceuticals,
globes, stamps, footballs, boats, juke boxes, fireworks, party hats, maps, ballet shoes, sweets, tennis balls, helicopters, golf balls, candles, frozen food, jewellery, greeting cards, bows and arrows, toy cars, slate, buttons, straw hats, brushes, motor bikes, steel, power, salt, sport shoes, butter, jam, perfume, radium, wine, tennis rackets, umbrellas, pearls, records, baths, cutlery, vacuum cleaners, railway carriages, sheet music, sewing needles, anchor chains, biscuits, model railways, cinema organs, resin, glass, pasta, compasses, cricket balls, cricket bats, lipstick, gases, shells for guns, brushes, ice cream, lollies, silk, violins, rope, arms,

SOME HIGHLIGHTS

CP 271: "ELECTRIC LIGHT BULBS"
CP 272: "THERMO PLASTICS" (making baths, fridges, and aircraft canopies in the same factory).
CP 275: "OPERATION TIN CAN" (60 year old tin of plums is opened on canning's 150th anniversary)
CP 146: "PIPE LAYING"
EP 017: "THAT POWDER PUFF"
EP 172: "BOOKS BY THE BILLION"
EP 305: "TWO MILLION A DAY (A TRAM TICKET TALE)"
EP 306: "MAKING A RECORD" (1920)
G 959: "BRITAIN'S SHOP WINDOW" (Queen Mary and George V at a trade fair in 1923).
NSP 151: "MACARONI" (a pasta factory in Scotland)
CP 316: "SKIS FOR EXPORT" (a Suffolk company makes skis for the Swiss market).
PSP 807: "A SYMPHONY OF STEEL" (steel production artistically set to music in 1933)
61/80: "HANDS OFF TEA BREAK" (Building trade workers march in London)
65/85: "EXPORTS BOOMING" (colour 1960s item about the car industry)

KEYWORDS: TRADE, INDUSTRY, MANUFACTURING