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)
Children Fight For Life - Diphtheria 1942
Description
Title reads: "Official Government Film" (Children Fight for Life)
Various shots of injured or dead children caught under rubble due to 'enemy bombs'. Hospital ward where children with Diphtheria attend. Doctor speaking of immunisation. Close-up of child smiling with nurse. Various shots inside...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- James
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 83965
- Sort Number:
- 42/056 (TRAILERS)
- Time in/Out:
- 01:17:26:00 / 01:18:36:00
- Canister:
- 42/56 (TRAILERS)
- Film ID:
- 2909.05
- Issue Date:
- 13/07/1942
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-
Out Takes / Cuts From Cp 645 - Papier Mache Sculpture, Dwile Flonking And Battle Of The Mops
-
Cuts (out takes, rushes) for stories featured in CP 645.
-
News In A Nutshell
-
Roundup of the latest world's news. (RED MARLEY HILL CLIMB, BRITISH PLANE DISASTER IN FRANCE, TEXAS SCHOOL EXPLOSION, OXFORD GROUP PARTY AT CASTLE BROMWICH, BUN FIGHT AT ALDERSHOT, COLD STORAGE FIRE IN MELBOURNE, MARBLES CHAMPIONSHIP AT TINSLEY GREEN, BROOKLANDS HOLIDAY MEETING)
-
News In A Nutshell (German Fire Brigade, Chelsea Wedding, Colorado Dust Storm, Carnivals On The Riviera, Monte Carlo Fete, Duchess Of Gloucester At Marylebone, Thief Proof Bag, Duke Of Kent With Life Boatmen, Six A Side Hockey, Russian Quads, Max Baer In Training & Tommy Farr In Training)
-
Roundup of the world's latest news
-
Mourning Turned Into Joy
-
Heart-warming story about crew of trawler "Sargon", believed lost but returned safely home.
-
Into Brazil's Jungleland (No: 1)
-
Dogs are plunged into disinfectant and they bark at a caged Jaguar. David Newell tells hunting tales.
-
Churchill The Man - Commonwealth Version - Reel 1
-
Biopic tracing the life of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
-
India
-
Cuts showing street life in India.
- 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 (0)
We always welcome comments and more information about our films.
All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.