At Croydon Airport, Surrey, we see a woman driving a miniature car around the tarmac. The car is loaded onto an Imperial Airways airliner for delivery in Paris. Commentator says it has made history by becoming the first...
At Croydon Airport, Surrey, we see a woman driving a miniature car around the tarmac. The car is loaded onto an Imperial Airways airliner for delivery in Paris. Commentator says it has made history by becoming the first car to be transported by aeroplane. Brief shots of the plane taking off.
In London we see chorus girls from 'Jill Darling' at the Saville Theatre riding about on hobby horses. The girls wear suits and move the horses along by sitting up and down in the seat. Their 'racecourse' looks like an area at the back of the exterior of the theatre.
Various shots of some Great Dane puppies with their mother in the United States of America. A little girl plays with them.
At the opening of a Berlin bird show we see hundreds of homing pigeons flying out of baskets. Some exotic breeds of pigeons are seen; a blonde girl holds one to her face as if it is a dove. Visuals cut out a few seconds before the end of the story; soundtrack continues.
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.
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.
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