Eyes On Olympics 1959

Star Item

Description

Titles read: "LILLESHALL - EYES ON OLYMPICS".

Lilleshall Hall, Shropshire.

Exterior views of Lilleshall Hall and gardens. Several young athletes arrive and are greeted at the gates by staff. Commentator explains that the former home of the Duke of Sutherland is now run by the Central...

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50310
Sort Number:
59/030
Time in/Out:
01:40:26:00 / 01:41:47:00
Canister:
59/30
Film ID:
1573.24
Issue Date:
13/04/1959

Comments (0)

We always welcome comments and more information about our films.

All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.

Add your comment

To post a comment, please Register or to add a comment
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.
Battle
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.
Churchill
British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
Franz Reichelt

Related Videos

Hide
Hair Do's Plane And Fancy

Hair Do's Plane And Fancy

Hairdressers produce everything from simplicity to fantasy at their London contest.

Eyes On Winter Olympics

Eyes On Winter Olympics

German ski jumpers practice for the Winter Olympics.

Selected Originals - All Eyes On Tokyo

Selected Originals - All Eyes On Tokyo

Material relating to newsreel story - "All Eyes On Tokyo" - 64/63.

Preparation For The Olympic Games

Preparation For The Olympic Games

Polish competitors training for the Olympic games

Aau Gymnastics Championships - With A View To Olympics

Aau Gymnastics Championships - With A View To Olympics

American amateur athletes compete at West Point with an eye on the coming Olympic Games.

Munich's Tv Tower Opened AKA Munich Tv Tower

Munich's Tv Tower Opened AKA Munich Tv Tower

First day cover stamps at Post Office, TV tower visited by Mayor.

Russian Gymnasts Prepare For Mexico

Russian Gymnasts Prepare For Mexico

Russian gymnasts in training for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico

 

 

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.
Death Row
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.
Buchenwald
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.
WW1
The Duke of Edinburgh has many talents, but it is his unique way with words that often receives the most attention. 
LULU'S WEDDING
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.
 Before_Famous
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.
Transport_Inventions