British Pathe
Advanced Search- Archives
- Programmes
- 20th Century Hall Of Fame
- A Time To Remember
- A Day That Shook The World
- British Pathé Royal Collection
- British Pathé Travelogues
- Dave And Dusty
- Feminine Pictorialities
- Film Fanfare
- Jerry The Troublesome Tyke
- News In A Nutshell
- Review Of The Year
- Secrets Of Nature
- This Day
- Would You Believe It?
- View All Programmes
- Users
- Categories
- Galleries
- 10 Dangerous DareDevils
- Twenty Acts Of Terror
- Winston Churchill's Finest
Quotes - Prime Ministers' Funerals
- Alcatraz: Battles and Escapes
- 10 Great Urban Myths
- Death Row in Wartime: 8 Images
- Don'ts for Husbands, Wives and
Valentines - Munich Air Disaster
- Holocaust Memorial Day
- View All Galleries
- DVDs
- Basket (0)
Bleak House Issue Title - What The Dickens 1940
Description
C/U of inscription on wall Charles Dickens, pan up to bust of Dickens let into wall. Various shots of exterior shot of Bleak House, in Broadstairs, Kent. The large house was used by Dickens in his novel, formerly called Fort Lodge, with several good shots of the very large gardens to the house.
L/S...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Howard
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 42793
- Sort Number:
- NSP 196
- Time in/Out:
- 01:51:30:00 / 01:52:44:00
- Canister:
- NSP 196
- Film ID:
- 1282.29
- Issue Date:
- 05/01/1940
Appears in...
- Collections
- Cinemagazines
- Categories
- Lifestyle & Culture
- WorkSpaces
- BLEAK HOUSE
Add your comment
- Adrenaline seekers from the past have left an indelible mark on the Pathe archive. Some were so dangerous they even lost their lives. Here are 10 top daredevils.
-
- Terrorism is nothing new. The Pathe archive has a vast collection of material related to terrorist attacks dating back to 1919 right through to the 2005 London bombings.
-
- British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
-
Related Videos
Hide-
Labour Party's Chequers
-
Leaders of the Labour Party are guests of Lady Warwick at Easton Lodge in Dunmow.
-
Bishop Blesses The Land (Dublin Issue)
-
The Bishop of St Edmonsbury and Ipswich blesses the land at Kirken Lodge Farm in Suffolk.
-
Labour Party Meeting (Aka Labour Party's Chequers)
-
Leaders of the Labour Party are guests of Lady Warwick at Easton Lodge in Dunmow.
-
New Comforts For Old Folks
-
Brighton provides real homes for its elderly people.
-
The Way To Beauty
-
Women under going treatment at Pelham Lodge beauty farm at Knebworth.
-
Curl Hat
-
Footage of designer Biagio Raymond displaying his new curly hat designs. London.
-
Princess Margaret At Royal Ballet School
-
Princess Margaret looks round the Royal Ballet School. White Lodge, Richmond Park.
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- Life before health and safety laws; men worked at huge heights, balancing on girders and cranes all in order to help build the world's tallest skyscrapers.
-
- Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.
-
- Over its history, the Pathe cameras filmed a number of people who had committed heinous crimes. So in no particular order, these images show ten faces of truly evil men and women.
-
Comments (1)
We always welcome comments and more information about our films.
All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.
The house was auctioned off in 1949, an event which can be seen in clip 2274.20.