In Paris, France, we see the largest religious sculpture in the world being worked on by sculptor Monsieur Serraz and his assistants. He works from a scale model of the Madonna and Child. The finished statue will...
In Paris, France, we see the largest religious sculpture in the world being worked on by sculptor Monsieur Serraz and his assistants. He works from a scale model of the Madonna and Child. The finished statue will be 175 ft high and will stand on a hill overlooking the Rhone Valley.
In the picturesque village of Gingnese near Lake Maggiore in Italy we see a shop where umbrellas and parasols are made and sold. C/Us of umbrella handles. A woman in the shop puts up a parasol (she seems to be in Victorian dress).
In Cardiff, Wales, we see inventor Mr Johns putting a knife through an unpuncturable bicycle tyre. He rides the bike over a piece of wood with nails sticking out of it and still it survives! Mr Johns rides along a road on his bike with sidecar. A dog sits on the sidecar cover.
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.
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.
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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