Various locations where new ideas are caught by the camera.
The first shows body make-up being applied to chorus girls using an airbrush. Nice opening shot of three girls in camiknickers about to get changed. Girls are seen changing costumes...
Various locations where new ideas are caught by the camera.
The first shows body make-up being applied to chorus girls using an airbrush. Nice opening shot of three girls in camiknickers about to get changed. Girls are seen changing costumes & having make up sprayed on in their dressing room.
The next new idea is a buffet car on a Great Western train. People are seen eating, drinking and being served as they sit up at the bar. The steward takes teapots, cups and so on out of compact drawers behind the counter. Brief shot of the train speeding through the countryside.
In Salzburg, Austria, we see a new idea for covering the famous open-air theatre when it rains. A roof is wound off huge rollers and covers the seating area and stage.
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.
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 lady on the street repairs ladders in stockings, a female cobbler visits people's houses to mend their shoes, and a barber cuts hair in the street under the shelter of half an upturned boat.
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.
Animals are often the forgotten army of World War I. They displayed unwavering courage even when exposed to extreme conditions. British Pathé pay tribute to these forgotten warriors.
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.
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.
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.
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