Good M/S of a rose bud slowly opening using a time lapse camera. M/S's of other flowers in bushes opening.
L/S's of M/S's of an old man with a small boy. He walks with a large walking stick. The commentator says that the documents show that this Russian man is 152 years old ! (he look very good for it !). M/S's of his sons who are just 95 and 80 years old !
L/S's of a young women handing a spoon to Loretta 'the educated parrot.' Loretta takes the spoon in her beak. Several M/S's of the bird singing songs including 'Yankee Doodle Dandy', she also barks like a dog.
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.
New ideas caught by the camera: showgirls have body make-up sprayed on, a buffet car on a train and a temporary roof for Salzburg's famous open air theatre.
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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