British Embassy In Rome Blown Up 1946

Star Item

Description

Unissued / Unused material.

Dynamite blows up British Embassy in Rome, Italy.

Various shots people walking in the street outside the Embassy with umbrellas up. Various shots of the gaping hole in the building caused by the explosion.

Various shots wreckage littering the...

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
66403
Sort Number:
UN 1599 D
Time in/Out:
01:33:01:00 / 01:35:37:00
Canister:
UN 1599 D
Film ID:
2363.12
Issue Date:

Comments (0)

We always welcome comments and more information about our films.

All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.

Add your comment

To post a comment, please Register or to add a 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.
daredevil
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.
911
British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
Franz Reichelt

Related Videos

Hide
(Roseray And Capella) On Sleeve As Croseray And Capella

(Roseray And Capella) On Sleeve As Croseray And Capella

Artistic exhibition dance is performed by Roseray and Capella.

Rome British Embassy Bombed

Rome British Embassy Bombed

Item showing severe bomb damage inflicted on the British Embassy in Rome. Italy.

Jap Protest

Jap Protest

Japanese protesters demand an end to nuclear weapons tests.

Embassy Building - 1941

Embassy Building - 1941

London Embassy building houses Russian and Finnish Legation.

Us Secretary Of State In London

Us Secretary Of State In London

American Secretary of State talks in London about the founding of the United Nations.

Modern Buildings

Modern Buildings

Modern building which could be a hotel or foreign embassy.

American Embassy - Personalities Outside

American Embassy - Personalities Outside

Footage of people standing outside the America Embassy.

 

 

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.
Death Row
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.
Buchenwald
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.
Churchill
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.
Battle
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.
Vertigo
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.
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.
Himmler