TRAVEL & TRANSPORT

KEYWORDS: TRAVEL, TRANSPORT.

Equally popular with both producers and audiences travelogues were a mainstay of Pathe's "pictorial" output.

Here is a list of international destinations covered:

30s; Berlin, Rhine, Morocco, Death Valley, Newfoundland, Austria, India, Copenhagen, Oregon, Rome, Columbo, Holland, Hanoi, Tahiti, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Jerusalem, Cairo, Korea, Budapest, New Zealand, Guernsey, Greenland, Bermuda, Brazil, Palestine, China, Turin, Austria, Capri, Australia, Poland, Versailles, Venice, Sarajevo, Sweden, Russia, France, Canada, Hungary, Germany, New Mexico, Indonesia, Tibet, Sydney, Iceland, Florence, Haiti, Austria, Bhutan, Caucasus, Hungary, Bavaria, Turkestan, Virgin Islands, Caribbean.

50s & 60s (colour); New Zealand, Boulogne, Petra, Uganda, Holland, Mediterranean, St Moritz, Cairo, Trinidad, New York, Bavaria, Italy, Jersey, Ireland, Venice, Lisbon, British Columbia, Morocco, Marrakesh, South Africa, Caribbean, Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Uganda, Corfu, US National Parks, Italy, Canada, Madeira, Miami, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Vienna, Sicily, Ireland, Iceland, Rumania, Canary Islands, Hong Kong, Pacific Islands, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Spain, Dieppe, Greek Islands, Crete, Sardinia, River Nile, Scilly Isles, Mexico, Gibraltar, Jordan, New England, Rome, Copenhagen, Israel, Rhine, Virginia, Thasos, South Sea Islands, Thailand, Lesotho, Hollywood, Turkey, Istanbul, California, Monaco, Corfu, Canada, Cyprus, Swiss Alps, Denmark, Florida, Hawaii, Israel, Madeira, Jersey, Paris, Bulgaria, Corsica, Bermuda, Prague, Gautemala.

Pathe also filmed extensively around Britain and Northern Ireland.

SOME HIGHLIGHTS

"WINGS OF THE WEST" (40s travelogue; an aerial trip from New York to San Francisco)
"LAND OF MAGIC" (60s documentary about Ireland)
"WESTWARD HO!" (60s travelogue about Devon and Cornwall)
"WELCOME THE QUEEN" (1954 travelogue following the Queen around the Commonwealth)
CP 153: "WOMEN'S ISLAND" (Grand Cayman, whose population is mainly female)
CP 741: "LAS VEGAS AND THE WILD WEST"
PT 516: "FINLANDIA" (images of Finland accompanied by the Finnish National Orchestra)
CP 640: "AROUND THE WORLD" (an 8 minute trip…)
EP 307: "EASTERN TOWN" (an early hand painted colour item about a town somewhere in the east)
EP 155 : "THE CITY MOVES" (Berlin goes on holiday)
PT 456: "ANOTHER PAGE IS WRITTEN" (a day in the life of Rome in 1938)

Modes of transport were also covered in great depth. Apart from the obvious planes, trains and automobiles we have cruise ships, ocean liners, trams, charabancs, horses, airships, bicycles, underground trains, ferries, hovercraft, scooters, trolleybuses, stagecoaches, helicopters, tanks, amphibious cars, barges, narrow boats, stagecoaches, "water scooters" chariots, sledges, cable cars, tractors, tricycles, motorised prams, "ostrich buggies", rickshaws, sedan chairs, submarines, hydroplnes, ferries, "steam bikes" "road yachts"…

SOME HIGHLIGHTS

PSP 732: "FLYING TRAINS"
EP 271: "1831-1933" (a look at the development of trains)
PT 063: "SPEED" (a plane, train and speed boat go head to head!)
CP 325: "300 MPH ROAD" (London to Birmingham on the M1)
EP 133: "THE RAILPLANE"
PT 320: "THAT CHANNEL TUNNEL" (1936)
52/56: "£2,000,000 PER MILE (expensive mountain raod in built in Venezuela)
52/56: LONDON'S LAST TRAM
62/38: "CLIFF DRIVES A LONDON BUS" (Cliff Richard in training for "Summer Holiday)

KEYWORDS: TRAVEL, TRANSPORT.