Automatic fire fighting demonstration. Budapest, Hungary.
CU man lighting cigarette, he is stopped by official who points to oil drums. MS oil storage tank. Ground to air LS small monoplane in flight, pan down to oil storage tank. CU man looking at small...
Automatic fire fighting demonstration. Budapest, Hungary.
CU man lighting cigarette, he is stopped by official who points to oil drums. MS oil storage tank. Ground to air LS small monoplane in flight, pan down to oil storage tank. CU man looking at small instrument. CU clock counting down seconds. Various shots as men give the signal to set light to an oil storage tank.
Various shots of storage tank in flames with automatic sprinklers playing on side of tank. Various shots as the fire is controlled by the automatic sprinklers. CU officer of the Budapest Fire Fighting Command being interviewed. Various shots thick layer of foam which covers top of tank.
WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
A primitive automatic fire extinguisher, a tortoise is wheeled along on a little trolley and animated pictures in lights created for Broadway billboards.
The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.
The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
10 telling images selected from British Pathé's extensive WWI footage. 'The war to end all wars' was a war without parallel: over 70 million military personnel were involved and over 17 million people died.
British Pathé filmed the 20th Century's biggest names, some of them before they even became famous. Click through and guess who these soon-to-be celebrities were when first captured by our cameras.
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.Take a look at some of the more unusual but ingenious ideas that people have had to beat the traffic.
Comments (0)
We always welcome comments and more information about our films.
All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.