Mad Hatters 1948

Star Item

Description

Cowpuncher hat fashions at Piccadilly Circus, London.

Various shots of customer trying on different types of Stetson hats in smart menswear shop. The cowboy hats all look a bit silly. L/S man wearing white ten-gallon-hat walking across Piccadilly Circus, other pedestrians give him funny looks....

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44834
Sort Number:
NP 220
Time in/Out:
01:12:53:00 / 01:13:51:00
Canister:
NP 220
Film ID:
1369.10
Issue Date:
29/11/1948

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
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.
daredevil
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.
911
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
(Woolly West)

(Woolly West)

Cowboys round up sheep - various shot of our woolly friends.

(Pictures While You Wait)

(Pictures While You Wait)

A little girl makes a picture of a cowboy by a transfer process.

Police

Police "Cowboys"

Police Cowboys giving amazing display at the International Horse Show.

Cattle Roundup (Aka Great Cattle Round-Up)

Cattle Roundup (Aka Great Cattle Round-Up)

Various shots of a large herd of cattle being rounded up in New Mexico by cowboys.

Cowboys And Indians

Cowboys And Indians

Extract from the unknown feature film - a western with cowboys and Indians fighting.

(Cowboys And Indians)

(Cowboys And Indians)

Clips from feature films showing Native Americans (Red Indians) attacking wagon convoys.

(Village Fete)

(Village Fete)

Stalls and games and fun for children at a village fete.

Soldiers' Own Rodeo

Soldiers' Own Rodeo

Soldiers organise their own rodeo.

 

 

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
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
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
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.
Vertigo
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.
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.
Himmler